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Tanium 7.x Application on TanOS Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • The Tanium max_soap_sessions_total setting must be explicitly enabled to limit the number of simultaneous sessions.

    Application management includes the ability to control the number of users and user sessions that utilize an application. Limiting the number of allowed users and sessions per user is helpful in li...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Tanium Trusted Content providers must be documented.

    A Tanium Sensor, also called content, enables an organization to gather real-time inventory, configuration, and compliance data elements from managed computers. Sensors gather specific information ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Content providers must provide their public key to the Tanium administrator to import for validating signed content.

    A Tanium Sensor, also called content, enables an organization to gather real-time inventory, configuration, and compliance data elements from managed computers. Sensors gather specific information ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Tanium Computer Groups must be used to restrict console users from affecting changes to unauthorized computers.

    Computer Groups allow a site running Tanium to assign responsibility of specific Computer Groups to specific Tanium console users. By doing so, a desktop administrator, for example, will not have t...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Tanium Threat Response must be configured to receive IOC streams only from trusted sources.

    Using trusted and recognized IOC sources may detect and prevent systems from becoming compromised. An IOC stream is a series or stream of intel that is imported from a vendor based on a subscriptio...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The Tanium documentation identifying recognized and trusted SCAP sources must be maintained.

    NIST validated SCAP XML documents are provided from several possible sources such as DISA, NIST, and the other nongovernment entities. These documents are used as the basis of compliance definition...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Tanium Comply must be configured to receive OVAL feeds only from trusted sources.

    OVAL XML documents are provided from several possible sources such as the CIS open source repository, or any number of vendor/third party paid repositories. These documents are used to automate the...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The publicly accessible Tanium application must display the Standard Mandatory DOD Notice and Consent Banner before granting access to the application.

    Display of a standardized and approved use notification before granting access to the publicly accessible application ensures privacy and security notification verbiage used is consistent with appl...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Multifactor authentication must be enabled and enforced on the Tanium Server for all access and all accounts.

    To ensure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, organizational users must be identified and authenticated to prevent potential misuse and compromise of the system. Organizational user...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The Tanium application must alert the ISSO and SA (at a minimum) in the event of an audit processing failure.

    It is critical for the appropriate personnel to be aware if a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required. Without this notification, the security personnel may be unaware of an ...
    Rule Medium Severity

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