The VMM must only allow the use of DoD PKI-established certificate authorities for verification of the establishment of protected sessions.

From VMware vSphere ESXi 6.0 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Part of SRG-OS-000403-VMM-001640

Associated with: CCI-002470

SV-78403r1_rule The VMM must only allow the use of DoD PKI-established certificate authorities for verification of the establishment of protected sessions.

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To assure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, privileged users must utilize multifactor authentication to prevent potential misuse and compromise of the system.

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From the vSphere Web Client select the ESXi Host and go to Manage >> Authentication Services and view the Smart Card Authentication status. If "Enable Smart Card Authentication" is checked, the system requires smart cards to authentication to an Active Directory Domain. For systems that have no local user accounts, other than root and/or vpxuser, this is not applicable. For environments that do not use vCenter server to manage ESXi, this is not applicable. For systems that do not use smart cards with Active Directory and do have local user accounts, other than root and/or vpxuser, this is a finding.

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The following are pre-requisites to configuration smart card authentication for the ESXi DCUI: -Active Directory domain that supports smart card authentication, smart card readers, and smart cards. -ESXi joined to an Active Directory domain. -Trusted certificates for root and intermediary certificate authorities. From the vSphere Web Client select the ESXi Host and go to Manage >> Authentication Services and edit the Smart Card Authentication configuration to add trusted certificate authority certificates and select "Enable Smart Card Authentication" and click OK. For more information see the vSphere 6.0 documentation on VMware's website.

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