Check Point
TMA-CHECKPOINT-1.8
Ensure Deny access to unused accounts is selected
Description
Deny access to unused accounts. If there has been no successful login attempt in a set period of time, the user is locked out and cannot log in. PASS requires deny-on-nonuse enable on. Audited against the Gaia clish 'show configuration' output (run 'show configuration' in clish on each gateway and management server and save the full output).
How it is checked
Audit method: Configuration pattern
- Pattern
(?m)^set password-controls deny-on-nonuse enable on[ \t]*$
How it is fixed
Fix method: Guidance or infrastructure patch
set password-controls deny-on-nonuse enable on save config # CIS guidance: Run the following command to set the deny-on-nonuse setting. CLI: set password-controls deny-on-nonuse enable on GUI: Navigate to User Management > Password Policy > Deny access to unused accounts: Checked the 'Deny access to unused accounts' setting.
Properties
- Operating systems
- Any
- Tags
- checkpointauthentication
- Reference
- CIS Check Point Firewall Benchmark v1.1.0 - 1.8 Ensure Deny access to unused accounts is selected
Check this host
Run this on a machine you are allowed to audit. The scan is read-only.
tmaegis scan --target checkpoint