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Tanium 7.3 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • The vulnerability scanning application must implement privileged access authorization to all Tanium information systems and infrastructure components for selected organization-defined vulnerability scanning activities.

    <VulnDiscussion>In certain situations, the nature of the vulnerability scanning may be more intrusive, or the information system component th...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000015

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Tanium endpoint must have the Tanium Servers public key in its installation.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without cryptographic integrity protections, information can be altered by unauthorized users without detection. Remote acce...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000119

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • Access to Tanium logs on each endpoint must be restricted by permissions.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;For the Tanium Client software to run without impact from external negligent or malicious changes, the permissions on the Tan...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000131

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Tanium cryptographic signing capabilities must be enabled on the Tanium Clients to safeguard the authenticity of communications sessions when answering requests from the Tanium Server.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;All of Tanium's signing capabilities should be enabled upon install. Tanium supports the cryptographic signing and verificati...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000142

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

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;In addition to the client-to-server TCP communication that takes place over port 17472, Tanium Clients also communicate to ot...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000328

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group

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