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Tanium 7.x Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • The Tanium application must be configured to send audit records from multiple components within the system to a central location for review and analysis.

    Successful incident response and auditing relies on timely, accurate system information and analysis to allow the organization to identify and respond to potential incidents in a proficient manner....
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The Tanium application must uniquely identify and authenticate nonorganizational users (or processes acting on behalf of nonorganizational users).

    Lack of authentication and identification enables nonorganizational users to gain access to the application or possibly other information systems and provides an opportunity for intruders to compro...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The Tanium application must separate user functionality (including user interface services) from information system management functionality.

    Application management functionality includes functions necessary for administration and requires privileged user access. Allowing nonprivileged users to access application management functionality...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The Tanium application must manage bandwidth throttles to limit the effects of information flooding types of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.

    DoS is a condition when a resource is not available for legitimate users. When this occurs, the organization either cannot accomplish its mission or must operate at degraded capacity. In the case...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The Tanium application must provide an immediate real-time alert to the system administrator and information system security officer, at a minimum, of all audit failure events requiring real-time alerts.

    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 a real-time alert, security personnel may be unaware of an impe...
    Rule Medium Severity

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