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Tanium 7.x Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • Tanium must notify system administrators and the information system security officer (ISSO) for account disabling actions.

    <VulnDiscussion>When application accounts are disabled, user accessibility is affected. Accounts are utilized for identifying individual user...
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  • SRG-APP-000294

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  • Tanium must notify system administrators and the information system security officer (ISSO) for account removal actions.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;When application accounts are removed, user accessibility is affected. Accounts are utilized for identifying users or for ide...
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  • SRG-APP-000121

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  • The Tanium application must prohibit user installation, modification, or deletion of software without explicit privileged status.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Allowing regular users to install, modify, or delete software, without explicit privileges, creates the risk that the applica...
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  • SRG-APP-000323

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  • 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...
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  • SRG-APP-000323

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  • 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...
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  • SRG-APP-000381

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  • 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 Server needs to access the SQL S...
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  • SRG-APP-000381

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  • The Tanium Server installer's 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 to cre...
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  • SRG-APP-000383

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  • 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 relational database management system (RDBMS) installed locally to the same dev...
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  • SRG-APP-000003

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  • The Tanium Application Server console must be configured to initiate a session lock after a 15-minute period of inactivity.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;When multifactor authentication is enabled, the Tanium Console will initiate a session lock based on the ActivClient or other...
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  • SRG-APP-000015

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  • Tanium Trusted Content providers must be documented.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;A Tanium Sensor, also called content, enables an organization to gather real-time inventory, configuration, and compliance da...
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  • SRG-APP-000015

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  • Firewall rules must be configured on the Tanium Server for Server-to-Module Server communications.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The Tanium Module Server is used to extend the functionality of Tanium through the use of various workbenches. The Tanium Mod...
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  • SRG-APP-000383

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  • Content providers must provide their public key to the Tanium administrator to import for validating signed content.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;A Tanium Sensor, also called content, enables an organization to gather real-time inventory, configuration, and compliance da...
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  • SRG-APP-000015

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  • Tanium public keys of content providers must be validated against documented trusted content providers.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;A Tanium Sensor, also called content, enables an organization to gather real-time inventory, configuration, and compliance da...
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  • SRG-APP-000033

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  • The Tanium Action Approval feature must be enabled for two-person integrity when deploying actions to endpoints.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The Tanium Action Approval feature provides a two-person integrity control mechanism designed to achieve a high level of secu...
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  • SRG-APP-000039

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  • The Tanium documentation identifying recognized and trusted indicator of compromise (IOC) streams must be maintained.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Using trusted and recognized IOC sources may detect compromise and prevent systems from becoming compromised. An IOC stream i...
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  • SRG-APP-000039

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  • Tanium Threat Response must be configured to receive IOC streams only from trusted sources.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Using trusted and recognized IOC sources may detect compromise and prevent systems from becoming compromised. An IOC stream i...
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  • SRG-APP-000115

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  • The Tanium applications must be configured to filter audit records for events of interest based on organization-defined criteria.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The ability to specify the event criteria that are of interest enables those reviewing the logs to quickly isolate and identi...
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  • SRG-APP-000131

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  • The Tanium cryptographic signing capabilities must be enabled on the Tanium Server.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;All of Tanium's signing capabilities should be enabled upon install. Tanium supports the cryptographic signing and verificati...
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  • SRG-APP-000131

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  • The Tanium Server must be configured to allow only signed content to be imported.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Changes to any software components can have significant effects on the overall security of the application. Verifying softwar...
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  • SRG-APP-000133

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  • All installation files originally downloaded to the Tanium Server must be configured to download to a location other than the Tanium Server directory.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Typically, the Tanium Server stores the Package Source Files that it downloads from the internet and server shares or files u...
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  • SRG-APP-000142

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  • Firewall rules must be configured on the Tanium Server 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...
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  • SRG-APP-000142

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  • Firewall rules must be configured on the Tanium Zone Server for Client-to-Zone Server communications.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;In customer environments using the Tanium Zone Server, a Tanium Client may be configured to point to a Zone Server instead of...
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  • SRG-APP-000142

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  • The Tanium Application Server must be configured to prohibit or restrict the use of organization-defined functions, ports, protocols, and/or services, as defined in the PPSM Category Assurance List (CAL) and vulnerability assessments.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To prevent unauthorized connection of devices, unauthorized transfer of information, or unauthorized tunneling (i.e., embeddi...
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  • SRG-APP-000175

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  • The Tanium Server certificates must have Extended Key Usage entries for the serverAuth object TLS Web Server Authentication and the clientAuth object TLS Web Client Authentication.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Restricting this setting limits the user's ability to change their password. Passwords must be changed at specific policy-bas...
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  • SRG-APP-000328

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  • Firewall rules must be configured on the Tanium Server for Server-to-Zone Server communications.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If using the Tanium Zone Server to proxy traffic from Tanium-managed computers on less trusted network segments to the Tanium...
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  • The Tanium Server directory must be restricted with appropriate permissions.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Discretionary Access Control (DAC) is based on the notion that individual users are "owners" of objects and therefore have di...
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