UK Cyber Essentials
Firewalls

UK Cyber Essentials CE-FW.7: Restrict Firewall Administrative Interface from the Internet

Block internet access to the firewall administrative interface unless there is a clear documented business need, and where allowed protect it with multi-factor authentication or a restricted IP allow list combined with managed password authentication.

Maintained by Gerard BlokdykVerified against the published standard Control text last updated

What else in your programme already covers this

This control maps to 12 controls across 9 other frameworks. If you already hold one of them, the evidence you collected for it is the starting point here rather than new work.

  • IM-6 Use strong authentication controls
  • NS-2 Secure cloud services with network controls

FedRAMP High · 2 controls

  • AC-17(3) Managed Access Control Points
  • CM-6 Configuration Settings

FedRAMP Moderate · 2 controls

  • AC-17(3) Managed Access Control Points
  • CM-6 Configuration Settings
  • ASD37-22 Network segmentation (Excellent)

C5 (Germany) · 1 control

Every mapping shown was judged rather than inferred from wording similarity, and the ones that failed review are published too. See the coverage reports and what was rejected.

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You are reading one control. How much of UK Cyber Essentials have you already done?

UK Cyber Essentials CE-FW.7 is one control. If you already hold one of the frameworks below, a reviewed crosswalk already says how much of UK Cyber Essentials your existing evidence covers. Hold FedRAMP Moderate and 29 of 36 UK Cyber Essentials controls already carry evidence.

Each report names every control your existing framework evidences, every one it does not, the reasoning behind each claim, and the claims that were argued against and rejected. 0 were rejected on the FedRAMP Moderate pair alone.

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