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North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) cybersecurity standards profile for the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform - Platform level

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • Profiling is protected by RBAC

    Ensure that the cluster-debugger cluster role includes the /debug/pprof resource URL. This demonstrates that profiling is protected by RBAC, with a...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure that the RBAC setup follows the principle of least privilege

    Role-based access control (RBAC) objects determine whether a user is allowed to perform a given action within a project. If users or groups exist ...
    Rule High Severity
  • Ensure that the cluster-admin role is only used where required

    The RBAC role cluster-admin provides wide-ranging powers over the environment and should be used only where and when needed.
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Limit Access to Kubernetes Secrets

    The Kubernetes API stores secrets, which may be service account tokens for the Kubernetes API or credentials used by workloads in the cluster. Acce...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Minimize Access to Pod Creation

    The ability to create pods in a namespace can provide a number of opportunities for privilege escalation. Where applicable, remove <code>create</co...
    Rule Medium Severity

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