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Tanium 7.0 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • Common Access Card (CAC)-based authentication must be enabled and enforced on the Tanium Server for all access and all accounts.

    <VulnDiscussion>To assure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, organizational users must be identified and authenticated to pre...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000293

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Tanium SQL database must be installed on a separate system.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Failure to protect organizational information from data mining may result in a compromise of information. Data storage objec...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000323

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • SRG-APP-000328

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • Tanium must notify System Administrators and Information System Security Officers for account disabling actions.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;When application accounts are disabled, user accessibility is affected. Accounts are used for identifying individual applicat...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000294

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • Tanium must notify System Administrators and Information System Security Officers for account removal actions.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;When application accounts are removed, user accessibility is affected. Accounts are used for identifying individual applicati...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000378

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • Tanium must prohibit user installation of software without explicit privileged status and enforce access restrictions associated with changes to application configuration.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Allowing regular users to install software without explicit privileges creates the risk that untested or potentially maliciou...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000111

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • Tanium must provide the capability to centrally review and analyze audit records from multiple components within the system.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Successful incident response and auditing relies on timely, accurate system information and analysis in order to allow the or...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000323

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Tanium SQL server must be dedicated to the Tanium database.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Failure to protect organizational information from data mining may result in a compromise of information. Data storage objec...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000381

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The access to the Tanium SQL database must be restricted. Only the designated database administrator(s) can have elevated privileges to the Tanium SQL database.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;After the Tanium Server has been installed and the Tanium databases created, only the Tanium Receiver, Tanium Module, and Tan...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000381

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Tanium Server installers account SQL database permissions must be reduced from sysadmin to db_owner.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Creating the tanium and tanium_archive databases through the Tanium Server installer program or using the database create SQL...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000383

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • Firewall rules must be configured on the Tanium Server for Server-to-Database communications.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The Tanium Server can use either a SQL Server RDBMS installed locally to the same device as the Tanium Server application or ...
    Rule Medium Severity

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