DISA Palo Alto Networks NDM STIG v3r3

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Audit Details

Name: DISA Palo Alto Networks NDM STIG v3r3

Updated: 9/1/2026

Authority: DISA STIG

Plugin: Palo_Alto

Revision: 1.3

Estimated Item Count: 34

File Details

Filename: DISA_STIG_Palo_Alto_Networks_NDM_v3r3.audit

Size: 141 kB

MD5: 82075bd00d2c6aaa8f7e9f011900237a
SHA256: 80c55b8df025442ead5763336e255033eab737e891a2532cade04d470d3932d6

Audit Items

DescriptionCategories
PANW-NM-000015 - The Palo Alto Networks security platform must enforce the limit of three consecutive invalid logon attempts.
PANW-NM-000016 - The Palo Alto Networks security platform must display the Standard Mandatory DoD Notice and Consent Banner before granting access to the device.
PANW-NM-000024 - The Palo Alto Networks security platform must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to access privileges occur.
PANW-NM-000029 - The Palo Alto Networks security platform must produce audit log records containing information (FQDN, unique hostname, management IP address) to establish the source of events - FQDN, unique hostname, management IP address to establish the source of events
PANW-NM-000046 - The Palo Alto Networks security platform must be configured to prohibit the use of all unnecessary and/or nonsecure functions, ports, protocols, and/or services, as defined in the PPSM CAL and vulnerability assessments.
PANW-NM-000048 - The Palo Alto device 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.
PANW-NM-000051 - The Palo Alto Networks security platform must implement replay-resistant authentication mechanisms for network access to privileged accounts.
PANW-NM-000053 - If multifactor authentication is not available and passwords must be used, the Palo Alto Networks security platform must enforce a minimum 15-character password length.
PANW-NM-000055 - If multifactor authentication is not available and passwords must be used, the Palo Alto Networks security platform must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one uppercase character be used.
PANW-NM-000056 - If multifactor authentication is not available and passwords must be used, the Palo Alto Networks security platform must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one lowercase character be used.
PANW-NM-000057 - If multifactor authentication is not available and passwords must be used, the Palo Alto Networks security platform must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one numeric character be used.
PANW-NM-000058 - If multifactor authentication is not available and passwords must be used, the Palo Alto Networks security platform must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one special character be used.
PANW-NM-000059 - If multifactor authentication is not available and passwords must be used, the Palo Alto Networks security platform must require that when a password is changed, the characters are changed in at least 8 of the positions within the password.
PANW-NM-000061 - The Palo Alto Networks security platform must prohibit the use of unencrypted protocols for network access to privileged accounts.
PANW-NM-000069 - The Palo Alto Networks security platform must terminate management sessions after 10 minutes of inactivity except to fulfill documented and validated mission requirements.
PANW-NM-000075 - Administrators in the role of Security Administrator, Cryptographic Administrator, or Audit Administrator must not also have the role of Audit Administrator.
PANW-NM-000092 - The Palo Alto Networks security platform must automatically lock the account until the locked account is released by an administrator when three unsuccessful logon attempts in 15 minutes are exceeded.
PANW-NM-000096 - The Palo Alto Networks security platform must generate an immediate alert when allocated audit record storage volume reaches 75% of repository maximum audit record storage capacity.
PANW-NM-000097 - The Palo Alto Networks security platform must have alarms enabled.
PANW-NM-000098 - The Palo Alto Networks security platform must compare internal information system clocks at least every 24 hours with an authoritative time server.
PANW-NM-000099 - The Palo Alto Networks security platform must synchronize internal information system clocks to the authoritative time source when the time difference is greater than one second.
PANW-NM-000100 - The Palo Alto Networks security platform must be configured to synchronize internal information system clocks with the primary and secondary time sources located in different geographic regions using redundant authoritative time sources.
PANW-NM-000101 - The Palo Alto Networks security platform must record time stamps for audit records that can be mapped to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) or Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
PANW-NM-000110 - The Palo Alto Networks security platform must accept and verify Personal Identity Verification (PIV) credentials - PIV credentials
PANW-NM-000117 - The Palo Alto Networks security platform must only allow the use of secure protocols that implement cryptographic mechanisms to protect the integrity of maintenance and diagnostic communications for nonlocal maintenance sessions.
PANW-NM-000118 - The Palo Alto Networks security platform must not use SNMP Versions 1 or 2.
PANW-NM-000128 - The Palo Alto Networks security platform must off-load audit records onto a different system or media than the system being audited.
PANW-NM-000131 - The Palo Alto Networks security platform must use automated mechanisms to alert security personnel to threats identified by authoritative sources (e.g., CTOs) and IAW CJCSM 6510.01B.
PANW-NM-000136 - The Palo Alto Networks security platform must employ centrally managed authentication server(s).
PANW-NM-000141 - The Palo Alto Networks security platform must use DoD-approved PKI rather than proprietary or self-signed device certificates.
PANW-NM-000142 - The Palo Alto Networks security platform must not use Password Profiles.
PANW-NM-000143 - The Palo Alto Networks security platform must not use the default admin account password.
PANW-NM-000144 - The Palo Alto Networks security platform must generate an audit log record when the Data Plane CPU utilization is 100%.
PANW-NM-000145 - The Palo Alto Networks security platform must authenticate Network Time Protocol sources.