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The Cisco ISE must use DoD-approved PKI rather than proprietary or self-signed device certificates.

Overview

Finding IDVersionRule IDIA ControlsSeverity
V-242639CSCO-NM-000340SV-242639r961863_ruleCCI-000366medium
Description
To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities that have been issued certificates by DoD-approved PKIs. The Cisco ISE generates a key-pair and a CSR. The CSR is sent to the approved CA, who signs it and returns it as a certificate. That certificate is then installed. The process to obtain a device PKI certificate requires the generation of a Certificate Signing Request (CSR), submission of the CSR to a CA, approval of the request by an RA, and retrieval of the issued certificate from the CA.
STIGDate
Cisco ISE NDM Security Technical Implementation Guide2026-06-03

Related Frameworks

2 mappings across 5 frameworks
SCF0 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 3 hops (9) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

CFG-01Configuration Management Program
1.00
END-01Endpoint Device Management (EDM)
1.00
END-04Malicious Code Protection (Anti-Malware)
1.00
END-06Endpoint File Integrity Monitoring (FIM)
1.00
MON-01Continuous Monitoring
1.00
MON-01.7File Integrity Monitoring (FIM)
1.00
CFG-02Secure Baseline Configurations
0.50
CFG-02.7Approved Configuration Deviations
0.50
CRY-08Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
0.50
NIST 800-530 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 2 hops (100) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

AC-12Session Termination
1.00
AC-16(1)Dynamic Attribute Association
1.00
AC-17(1)Monitoring and Control
1.00
AC-2Account Management
1.00
AC-2(1)Automated System Account Management
1.00
AC-2(11)Usage Conditions
1.00
AC-2(3)Disable Accounts
1.00
AC-2(4)Automated Audit Actions
1.00
AC-24(1)Transmit Access Authorization Information
1.00
AC-25Reference Monitor
1.00

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NIST 800-1710 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 3 hops (2) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

3.4.1
1.00
3.4.2
1.00
CCI2 mappings
CCI-000366
1.00
CCI-001159
1.00
NIST CSF 2.00 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 3 hops (5) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

DE.CM-09
1.00
PR.PS-01
1.00
PR.DS-10
0.50
PR.PSPlatform Security
0.50
PR.PS-05
0.50

Who does this work

10 NICE work roles and 9 EC-Council certifications.

This is an inference across published mappings, not a single claim by anyone. This check maps to a control, which maps to a Cybersecurity Framework outcome, which NIST assigns to the work roles below. EC-Council separately maps its certifications to those same roles.

A certification prepares someone for a role. It is not evidence that a holder is qualified, and neither NIST nor EC-Council has stated that any certification here addresses this check.

Work-role assignments published by NIST (NICE Framework Components 2.2.0 and the CSF 2.0 OLIR crosswalk). Certification mappings published by EC-Council.

Details

Check Text (C-242639r961863_chk)

Choose Administration >> System >> Certificates >> System Certificates. 1. The System Certificates page appears and provides information for the local certificates. 2. Select a certificate and choose "View" to display the certificate details. If the Cisco ISE does not obtain its public key certificates from an appropriate certificate policy through an approved service provider, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-45871r714226_fix)

Replace the self-signed certificate with a CA-signed certificates for greater security. To obtain a CA-signed certificate: A. Generate a certificate signing request (CSR) to obtain a CA-signed certificate for the nodes in your deployment. 1. Choose Administration >> System >> Certificates >> Certificate Signing Requests. 2. Enter the values for generating a CSR. Examples: RSA: Request security pki generate-key-pair certificate-id <cert name>> type rsa size <512 | 1024 | 2048 | 4096>> ECDSA: Request security pki generate-key-pair certificate-id <cert_name>> type ecdsa size <256 | 384>> 3. Click "Generate" to generate the CSR. 4. Click "Export" to open the CSR in a Notepad. 5. Copy all the text from "-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----" through "-----END CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----." 6. Paste the contents of the CSR into the certificate request. Generate a new key-pair from a DoD-approved certificate issuer. Sites must consult the PKI/PKI pages on the https://cyber.mil/ website for procedures for NIPRNet and SIPRNet. 7. Download the signed certificate. B. Import the Root Certificates to the Trusted Certificate Store: Administration >> System >> Certificates >> Trusted Certificates C. Bind the CA-Signed Certificate to the CSR. 1. Choose Administration >> System >> Certificates >> Certificate Signing Requests. Check the check box next to the node for which you are binding the CSR with the CA-signed certificate. 2. Click "Bind". 3. Click "Browse" to choose the CA-signed certificate. 4. Specify a Friendly Name for the certificate. 5. Check the "Validate Certificate Extensions" check box if you want Cisco ISE to validate certificate extensions. 6. Check the service for which this certificate will be used in the Usage area. This information is auto populated if you have enabled the Usage option while generating the CSR. If you do not want to specify the usage at the time of binding the certificate, uncheck the Usage option. You can edit the certificate later and specify the usage. 7. Click "Submit". If you have chosen to use this certificate for Cisco ISE internode communication, the application server on the Cisco ISE node is restarted.