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F5 BIG-IP TMOS ALG Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version: 1

Release: 3 Benchmark Date: 01 Jul 2026

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SV-266137r1212026_ruleThe F5 BIG-IP appliance providing user access control intermediary services must limit the "Max Sessions Per User" to one or an organization-defined number for each access profile.
SV-266138r1024835_ruleThe F5 BIG-IP appliance providing intermediary services for remote access communications traffic must ensure inbound and outbound traffic is monitored for compliance with remote access security policies.
SV-266139r1024837_ruleThe F5 BIG-IP appliance providing intermediary services for remote access must use FIPS-validated cryptographic algorithms, including TLS 1.2 at a minimum.
SV-266140r1024838_ruleTo protect against data mining, the F5 BIG-IP appliance providing content filtering must prevent code injection attacks from being launched against data storage objects, including, at a minimum, databases, database records, queries, and fields.
SV-266141r1024839_ruleTo protect against data mining, the F5 BIG-IP appliance providing content filtering must prevent code injection attacks launched against application objects including, at a minimum, application URLs and application code.
SV-266142r1024368_ruleTo protect against data mining, the F5 BIG-IP appliance providing content filtering must prevent SQL injection attacks launched against data storage objects, including, at a minimum, databases, database records, and database fields.
SV-266143r1137544_ruleThe F5 BIG-IP appliance providing user access control intermediary services must enforce approved authorizations for logical access to information and system resources by employing identity-based, role-based, and/or attribute-based security policies.
SV-266144r1137545_ruleThe F5 BIG-IP appliance providing user access control intermediary services must implement attribute- and content-based inspection of the source, destination, headers, and/or content of the communications traffic.
SV-266145r1173942_ruleThe F5 BIG-IP appliance providing user access control intermediary services must display the Standard Mandatory DOD-approved Notice and Consent Banner before granting access to the network.
SV-266146r1024841_ruleThe F5 BIG-IP appliance must generate event log records that can be forwarded to the centralized events log.
SV-266147r1024374_ruleThe F5 BIG-IP appliance that provides intermediary services for SMTP must inspect inbound and outbound SMTP and Extended SMTP communications traffic for protocol compliance and protocol anomalies.
SV-266148r1138544_ruleThe F5 BIG-IP appliance that intermediary services for FTP must inspect inbound and outbound FTP communications traffic for protocol compliance and protocol anomalies.
SV-266149r1024844_ruleThe F5 BIG-IP appliance that provides intermediary services for HTTP must inspect inbound and outbound HTTP traffic for protocol compliance and protocol anomalies.
SV-266150r1024377_ruleThe F5 BIG-IP appliance must be configured to prohibit or restrict the use of unnecessary or prohibited functions, ports, protocols, and/or services, including those defined in the PPSM CAL and vulnerability assessments.
SV-266152r1024845_ruleThe F5 BIG-IP appliance providing user authentication intermediary services must uniquely identify and authenticate users using redundant authentication servers and multifactor authentication (MFA).
SV-266153r1024380_ruleThe F5 BIG-IP appliance must configure certification path validation to ensure revoked machine credentials are prohibited from establishing an allowed session.
SV-266154r1024381_ruleThe F5 BIG-IP appliance providing user authentication intermediary services using PKI-based user authentication must implement a local cache of revocation data to support path discovery and validation in case of the inability to access revocation information via the network.
SV-266155r1024382_ruleThe F5 BIG-IP appliance must terminate all network connections associated with a communications session at the end of the session or after 15 minutes of inactivity.
SV-266156r1024848_ruleThe F5 BIG-IP appliance providing content filtering must employ rate-based attack prevention behavior analysis.
SV-266157r1024386_ruleThe F5 BIG-IP appliance providing content filtering must protect against or limit the effects of known and unknown types of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks by employing pattern recognition pre-processors.
SV-266158r1024387_ruleThe F5 BIG-IP appliance must check the validity of all data inputs except those specifically identified by the organization.
SV-266159r1024388_ruleThe F5 BIG-IP appliance providing content filtering must automatically update malicious code protection mechanisms.
SV-266160r1024389_ruleThe F5 BIG-IP appliance providing content filtering must detect use of network services that have not been authorized or approved by the information system security manager (ISSM) and information system security officer (ISSO), at a minimum.
SV-266161r1024391_ruleThe F5 BIG-IP appliance providing content filtering must generate a log record when unauthorized network services are detected.
SV-266162r1024392_ruleWhen the Access Profile Type is LTM+APM and it is not using any connectivity resources (such as Network Access, Portal Access, etc.) in the VPE, the F5 BIG-IP appliance must be configured to enable the HTTP Only flag.
SV-266163r1024393_ruleThe F5 BIG-IP appliance must be configured to enable the secure cookie flag.
SV-266164r1024395_ruleThe F5 BIG-IP appliance must be configured to disable the persistent cookie flag.
SV-266165r1024396_ruleThe F5 BIG-IP appliance must configure certificate path validation to ensure revoked user credentials are prohibited from establishing an allowed session.
SV-266166r1111861_ruleThe F5 BIG-IP appliance must not use the On-demand Cert Auth VPE agent as part of the APM Policy Profiles.
SV-266167r1024399_ruleThe F5 BIG-IP appliance must be configured to restrict a consistent inbound IP for the entire management session.
SV-266168r1024400_ruleThe F5 BIG-IP appliance must be configured to limit authenticated client sessions to initial session source IP.
SV-266170r1137561_ruleThe F5 BIG-IP appliance must be configured to use cryptographic algorithms approved by NSA to protect NSS for remote access to a classified network.
SV-266171r1024403_ruleThe F5 BIG-IP must be configured to identify and authenticate all endpoint devices or peers before establishing a connection.
SV-266172r1024404_ruleThe F5 BIG-IP appliance providing remote access intermediary services must disable split-tunneling for remote clients' VPNs.
SV-266173r1024854_ruleThe F5 BIG-IP appliance providing remote access intermediary services must be configured to route sessions to an IDPS for inspection.
SV-266174r1024406_ruleThe VPN Gateway must use Always On VPN connections for remote computing.
SV-266175r1024855_ruleThe F5 BIG-IP appliance must be configured to set the "Max In Progress Sessions per Client IP" value to 10 or an organizational-defined number.