DISA F5 BIG-IP TMOS NDM STIG v1r2

Audit Details

Name: DISA F5 BIG-IP TMOS NDM STIG v1r2

Updated: 12/19/2025

Authority: DISA STIG

Plugin: F5

Revision: 1.0

Estimated Item Count: 29

File Details

Filename: DISA_STIG_F5_BIG-IP_TMOS_NDM_v1r2.audit

Size: 96.6 kB

MD5: 239089417b7e7eb0d834a7c8e24806e7
SHA256: 46e75f43ccceebbf92db336566fa3f41371ac433da2c6672ff94dbd50b660f35

Audit Items

DescriptionCategories
F5BI-DM-300001 - The F5 BIG-IP appliance must be configured to limit the number of concurrent sessions to the Configuration Utility to 10 or an organization-defined number.

ACCESS CONTROL, SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

F5BI-DM-300003 - The F5 BIG-IP appliance must terminate shared/group account credentials when members leave the group.

ACCESS CONTROL

F5BI-DM-300009 - The F5 BIG-IP appliance must be configured with only one local account to be used as the account of last resort in the event the authentication server is unavailable.

ACCESS CONTROL

F5BI-DM-300010 - The F5 BIG-IP appliance must be configured to assign appropriate user roles or access levels to authenticated users.

ACCESS CONTROL, CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

F5BI-DM-300012 - The F5 BIG-IP appliance must be configured to audit the execution of privileged functions such as accounts additions and changes.

ACCESS CONTROL, AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY, CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

F5BI-DM-300013 - The F5 BIG-IP appliance must be configured to enforce the limit of three consecutive invalid logon attempts, after which time it must block any login attempt for at least 15 minutes.

ACCESS CONTROL

F5BI-DM-300014 - The F5 BIG-IP appliance must be configured to display the Standard Mandatory DOD Notice and Consent Banner upon access to the TMOS User Interface.

ACCESS CONTROL

F5BI-DM-300033 - The F5 BIG-IP appliance must manage local audit storage capacity in accordance with organization-defined audit record storage requirements.

AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

F5BI-DM-300034 - The F5 BIG-IP appliance must generate audit records and send records to redundant central syslog servers that are separate from the appliance.

AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY, SYSTEM AND INFORMATION INTEGRITY

F5BI-DM-300037 - The F5 BIG-IP appliance must record time stamps for audit records that can be mapped to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

F5BI-DM-300039 - The F5 BIG-IP appliance must be configured to prevent the installation of patches, service packs, or application components without verification the software component has been digitally signed using a certificate that is recognized and approved by the organization.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

F5BI-DM-300040 - The F5 BIG-IP appliance must be configured to use at least two authentication servers to authenticate administrative users.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

F5BI-DM-300041 - The F5 BIG-IP appliance must be running an operating system release that is currently supported by the vendor.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

F5BI-DM-300044 - The F5 BIG-IP appliance must obtain its public key certificates from an appropriate certificate policy through an approved service provider.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT, SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

F5BI-DM-300045 - The F5 BIG-IP appliance must be configured to prohibit the use of all unnecessary and/or nonsecure functions, ports, protocols, and/or services.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

F5BI-DM-300046 - The F5 BIG-IP appliance must be configured to use multifactor authentication (MFA) for interactive logins.

AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY, IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

F5BI-DM-300048 - The F5 BIG-IP appliance must authenticate Network Time Protocol (NTP) sources using authentication that is cryptographically based.

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

F5BI-DM-300049 - The F5 BIG-IP appliance must enforce a minimum 15-character password length.

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

F5BI-DM-300050 - The F5 BIG-IP appliance must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one uppercase character be used.

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

F5BI-DM-300051 - The F5 BIG-IP appliance must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one lowercase character be used.

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

F5BI-DM-300052 - The F5 BIG-IP appliance must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one numeric character be used.

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

F5BI-DM-300053 - The F5 BIG-IP appliance must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one special character be used.

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

F5BI-DM-300054 - The F5 BIG-IP appliance must require that when a password is changed, the characters are changed in at least eight of the positions within the password.

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

F5BI-DM-300055 - The F5 BIG-IP appliance must prohibit the use of cached authenticators after eight hours or less.

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

F5BI-DM-300056 - The F5 BIG-IP appliance must be configured to use DOD approved OCSP responders or CRLs to validate certificates used for PKI-based authentication.

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

F5BI-DM-300057 - The F5 BIG-IP appliance must set the idle time before automatic logout to five minutes of inactivity except to fulfill documented and validated mission requirements.

ACCESS CONTROL, SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

F5BI-DM-300060 - The F5 BIG-IP appliance must conduct backups of the configuration at a weekly or organization-defined frequency and store on a separate device.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT, CONTINGENCY PLANNING

F5BI-DM-300098 - The F5 BIG-IP appliance must be configured to display the Standard Mandatory DOD Notice and Consent Banner when accessing via SSH.

ACCESS CONTROL

F5BI-DM-300099 - The F5 BIG-IP appliance must be configured to restrict a consistent inbound IP for the entire management session.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION