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Tanium 7.x Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

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

    <VulnDiscussion>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-000142

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • 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...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000142

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • 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...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000175

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • 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...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000328

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • 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...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • 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...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000328

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Tanium Server http directory and subdirectories 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...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000328

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The permissions on the Tanium Server registry keys must be restricted to only the Tanium service account and the [Tanium Admins] group.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Discretionary Access Control (DAC) is based on the notion that individual users are "owners" of objects and therefore have di...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000328

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Tanium Server Logs and TDL_Logs directories 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...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000383

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • Firewall rules must be configured on the Tanium module server to allow Server-to-Module Server communications from the Tanium Server.

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

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The SSLHonorCipherOrder must be configured to disable weak encryption algorithms on the Tanium Server.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Use of weak or untested encryption algorithms undermines the purposes of using encryption to protect data. The application mu...
    Rule Medium Severity

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