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Tanium 7.3 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • Tanium must notify SA and ISSO for account removal actions.

    <VulnDiscussion>When application accounts are removed, user accessibility is affected. Accounts are utilized for identifying individual appli...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000378

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Tanium application must prohibit user installation of software without explicit privileged status.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Allowing regular users to install software, without explicit privileges, creates the risk that untested or potentially malici...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000033

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • Documentation defining Tanium functional roles must be maintained.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;System access should be reviewed periodically to verify that all Tanium users are assigned the appropriate role, with the lea...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000323

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Tanium database(s) 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
  • The Tanium application database must be dedicated to only the Tanium application.

    &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 database permissions must be reduced to an appropriate level.

    &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
  • SRG-APP-000454

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • SQL stored queries or procedures installed during Tanium installation must be removed from the Tanium Server.

    &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-000429

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Tanium Server must protect the confidentiality and integrity of transmitted information, in preparation to be transmitted and data at rest, with cryptographic signing capabilities enabled to protect the authenticity of communications sessions when making requests from Tanium Clients.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without protection of the transmitted information, confidentiality and integrity may be compromised since unprotected communi...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000003

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group

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