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July 23, 2026

STIG OS Compliance Guidelines for Unified Access Gateway

Unified Access Gateway supports configuration settings to allow to comply with Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) based on the CloudLinux AlmaLinux OS 9 STIG - Ver 1, Rel 1 guidelines. See National Checklist Program's checklist for Alma Linux 9 security configuration guidelines.

To achieve compliance, deploy the FIPS-compliant version of Unified Access Gateway appliance by configuring the following parameters during the deployment process.

ParameterDescription
dsComplianceOSSet to true to enable DISA STIG OS compliance settings.
rootPasswordExpirationDaysNumber of days after which the root password must be mandatorily reset. Set the value to 60.
passwordPolicyMinLenMinimum length of the root password. Set the value to 15.
passwordPolicyMinClassMinimum complexity of the root password. Set the value to 4.
sshEnabledSet to true to automatically enable SSH access on the deployed appliance.
DNSEnsure the configuration includes at least two DNS servers, one as the primary (active) and the other as the secondary (backup).

Post deployment, configure the following parameter using the Admin UI.

ParameterDescription
syslogUrlSet the syslog server URL to use TLS as the communication protocol.

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