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Tanium 7.x Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • 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.

    All of Tanium's signing capabilities should be enabled upon install. Tanium supports the cryptographic signing and verification before execution of all Sensors, Questions, Actions, Sensor Libraries...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The ability to uninstall the Tanium Client service must be disabled on all managed clients.

    By default, end users have the ability to uninstall software on their clients. In the event the Tanium Client software is uninstalled, the Tanium Server is unable to manage the client and must rede...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The Tanium Application Server must be configured to only use LDAP for account management functions.

    Enterprise environments make application account management challenging and complex. A manual process for account management functions adds the risk of a potential oversight or other error. To r...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Tanium Computer Groups must be used to restrict console users from effecting 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
  • Multifactor authentication must be enabled on the Tanium Server for network access with privileged accounts.

    The Tanium application must be configured to use multifactor authentication. Without the use of multifactor authentication, the ease of access to privileged functions is greatly increased. Multif...
    Rule High Severity

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