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Dell EMC PowerScale: Recommended Security Baseline Checks

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Oz Gabriely
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This page provides a list of recommended secure configuration checks for Dell EMC PowerScale, and is periodically updated.

Dell EMC PowerScale is an enterprise network-attached storage (NAS) platforms for high-volume storage, backup and archiving of unstructured data.

System Category Configuration check
Dell EMC PowerScale Access Control /ifs root share status
Dell EMC PowerScale Access Control Access Based Enumeration
Dell EMC PowerScale Access Control Account lockout threshold
Dell EMC PowerScale Access Control browsable share status
Dell EMC PowerScale Access Control CIFS share user access list
Dell EMC PowerScale Access Control External firewall configuration
Dell EMC PowerScale Access Control Idle session timeout (CLI)
Dell EMC PowerScale Access Control Idle session timeout (SSH)
Dell EMC PowerScale Access Control IPMI default password
Dell EMC PowerScale Access Control IPMI IP ACL
Dell EMC PowerScale Access Control IPMI power control
Dell EMC PowerScale Access Control IPMI Serial over LAN
Dell EMC PowerScale Access Control IPMI status
Dell EMC PowerScale Access Control IPMI user list
Dell EMC PowerScale Access Control Login banner status
Dell EMC PowerScale Access Control Minimum account lockout duration
Dell EMC PowerScale Access Control MOTD message
Dell EMC PowerScale Access Control MOTD status
Dell EMC PowerScale Access Control NFS export client access list
Dell EMC PowerScale Access Control Non-default local users
Dell EMC PowerScale Access Control System and data access zone separation
Dell EMC PowerScale Access Control Unknown user UID
Dell EMC PowerScale Access Control Web-based access isolated to a specific management network
Dell EMC PowerScale Access Control Zone Host ACL
Dell EMC PowerScale Audit Approved external syslog servers
Dell EMC PowerScale Audit Approved NTP Servers
Dell EMC PowerScale Audit Approved NTP servers
Dell EMC PowerScale Audit Audit settings
Dell EMC PowerScale Audit Centralized log server
Dell EMC PowerScale Audit Centralized log server redundancy
Dell EMC PowerScale Audit Configuration change auditing
Dell EMC PowerScale Audit Event forwarding to CEE
Dell EMC PowerScale Audit Log retention period
Dell EMC PowerScale Audit NTP authentication
Dell EMC PowerScale Audit NTP server configuration
Dell EMC PowerScale Audit NTP server redundancy
Dell EMC PowerScale Audit Protocol auditing
Dell EMC PowerScale Audit Required external syslog servers
Dell EMC PowerScale Audit Required NTP Servers
Dell EMC PowerScale Audit syslog facility
Dell EMC PowerScale Audit Syslog min severity
Dell EMC PowerScale Authentication Approved Active Directory provider
Dell EMC PowerScale Authentication Approved authentication provider
Dell EMC PowerScale Authentication Approved Kerberos providers
Dell EMC PowerScale Authentication Approved KMIP servers
Dell EMC PowerScale Authentication Approved LDAP Servers
Dell EMC PowerScale Authentication Default passwords
Dell EMC PowerScale Authentication Kerberos authentication status
Dell EMC PowerScale Authentication KMIP status
Dell EMC PowerScale Authentication Maximum password age
Dell EMC PowerScale Authentication Minimum password age
Dell EMC PowerScale Authentication Minimum password length
Dell EMC PowerScale Authentication NDMP password strength
Dell EMC PowerScale Authentication NTLMv2 status
Dell EMC PowerScale Authentication Password complexity
Dell EMC PowerScale Authentication Password history
Dell EMC PowerScale Authentication Password last change
Dell EMC PowerScale Authentication Required Active Directory provider
Dell EMC PowerScale Authentication Required Identity provider (Kerberos)
Dell EMC PowerScale Authentication Required LDAP provider
Dell EMC PowerScale Authentication SNMP community default string
Dell EMC PowerScale Authentication SNMP user authentication
Dell EMC PowerScale Authentication SNMP user authentication algorithm strength
Dell EMC PowerScale Authentication Two-factor authentication
Dell EMC PowerScale Authorization Approved admin user / group
Dell EMC PowerScale Authorization File share user access rights
Dell EMC PowerScale Authorization Guest account is disabled
Dell EMC PowerScale Authorization nobody user status
Dell EMC PowerScale Authorization SNMP user permission
Dell EMC PowerScale Backup and Recovery Configuration backup
Dell EMC PowerScale Backup and Recovery Data/Backup Retention
Dell EMC PowerScale Backup and Recovery Protected recovery copies
Dell EMC PowerScale Backup and Recovery Ransomware defender configuration
Dell EMC PowerScale Backup and Recovery Remote copy
Dell EMC PowerScale Backup and Recovery remote replication configuration
Dell EMC PowerScale Backup and Recovery SmartLock domains
Dell EMC PowerScale Backup and Recovery SmartLock mode
Dell EMC PowerScale Backup and Recovery SmartLock status
Dell EMC PowerScale Backup and Recovery Snapshot access
Dell EMC PowerScale Backup and Recovery Snapshot autodelete
Dell EMC PowerScale Backup and Recovery Snapshot configuration
Dell EMC PowerScale Backup and Recovery WORM Domain default retention
Dell EMC PowerScale Backup and Recovery WORM Domain maximum retention
Dell EMC PowerScale Backup and Recovery WORM Domain minimum retention
Dell EMC PowerScale Backup and Recovery WORM Domain Override retention date
Dell EMC PowerScale Backup and Recovery WORM Domain privileged delete status
Dell EMC PowerScale Configuration Management Approved DNS server
Dell EMC PowerScale Configuration Management Approved PowerScale release
Dell EMC PowerScale Configuration Management DNS server redundancy
Dell EMC PowerScale Configuration Management DNS service status
Dell EMC PowerScale Configuration Management Drive firmware
Dell EMC PowerScale Configuration Management NFS versions enabled
Dell EMC PowerScale Configuration Management Remote support configuration
Dell EMC PowerScale Configuration Management Remote support status
Dell EMC PowerScale Configuration Management Required DNS server
Dell EMC PowerScale Configuration Management Target OneFS version
Dell EMC PowerScale Encryption Central Certificate Authority (CA) status
Dell EMC PowerScale Encryption Certificate issuer
Dell EMC PowerScale Encryption Certificate thumbprint algorithm
Dell EMC PowerScale Encryption Data-at-rest encryption
Dell EMC PowerScale Encryption Default encryption enabled
Dell EMC PowerScale Encryption OCSP configuration
Dell EMC PowerScale Encryption Reject unencrypted access
Dell EMC PowerScale Encryption Replication encryption
Dell EMC PowerScale Encryption SMB Encryption
Dell EMC PowerScale Encryption SMB Security Signatures
Dell EMC PowerScale Encryption SNMP message privacy
Dell EMC PowerScale Encryption SNMP message privacy algorithm strength
Dell EMC PowerScale Encryption SSH MAC strength
Dell EMC PowerScale Encryption SSL certificate status
Dell EMC PowerScale Encryption TLS level check
Dell EMC PowerScale Hardening Cluster join mode
Dell EMC PowerScale Hardening Hardening status
Dell EMC PowerScale Hardening root user status
Dell EMC PowerScale Malware Protection Antivirus server configuration
Dell EMC PowerScale Malware Protection Antivirus server redundancy
Dell EMC PowerScale Malware Protection Approved Antivirus (ICAP) server
Dell EMC PowerScale Malware Protection CEE forwarding to external file policy server
Dell EMC PowerScale Malware Protection Ransomware file filtering
Dell EMC PowerScale Malware Protection Required Antivirus server
Dell EMC PowerScale Monitoring Email notifications
Dell EMC PowerScale Monitoring SNMP monitoring
Dell EMC PowerScale Monitoring Telemetry status
Dell EMC PowerScale Services and Protocols FTP service status
Dell EMC PowerScale Services and Protocols HDFS access
Dell EMC PowerScale Services and Protocols HTTP access
Dell EMC PowerScale Services and Protocols NDMP status
Dell EMC PowerScale Services and Protocols NFS access
Dell EMC PowerScale Services and Protocols S3 service status
Dell EMC PowerScale Services and Protocols SMB access
Dell EMC PowerScale Services and Protocols SMBv1 status
Dell EMC PowerScale Services and Protocols SMBv2 status
Dell EMC PowerScale Services and Protocols SNMP agent Status
Dell EMC PowerScale Services and Protocols SNMP status
Dell EMC PowerScale Services and Protocols SNMPv1 / SNMPv2 status
Dell EMC PowerScale Services and Protocols Support NetBIOS
Dell EMC PowerScale Services and Protocols Swift access
Dell EMC PowerScale Services and Protocols SyncIQ status
Dell EMC PowerScale Services and Protocols Telnet access
... and more.    

NOTE: Security baseline checks should be performed also against additional components such as DataIQ, InsightIQ, iDRAC, Superna and other related components.

 

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