The Tanium Operating System (TanOS) must manage excess capacity, bandwidth, or other redundancy to limit the effects of information flooding types of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
<VulnDiscussion>DoS is a condition that occurs 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. Managing excess capacity ensures sufficient capacity is available to counter flooding attacks. Employing increased capacity and service redundancy may reduce the susceptibility to some DoS attacks. Managing excess capacity may include, for example, establishing selected usage priorities, quotas, or partitioning.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>
- ID
- SV-254851r958528_rule
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation - Manual Procedure
1. Sign in to the TanOS console as a user with the tanadmin role.
2. Enter "A" to go to the "Appliance Configuration" menu.
3. Enter "A" to go to the "Security" menu.