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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

  • Configure the Encryption Provider Cipher

    <p> When you enable etcd encryption, the following OpenShift API server and Kubernetes API server resources are encrypted: <ul> <li>...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Configure the etcd Certificate Authority for the API Server

    To ensure etcd is configured to make use of TLS encryption for client connections, follow the OpenShift documentation and setup the TLS connection ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Configure the etcd Certificate for the API Server

    To ensure etcd is configured to make use of TLS encryption for client communications, follow the OpenShift documentation and setup the TLS connecti...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Configure the etcd Certificate Key for the API Server

    To ensure etcd is configured to make use of TLS encryption for client communications, follow the OpenShift documentation and setup the TLS connecti...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure that the --kubelet-https argument is set to true

    The kube-apiserver ensures https to the kubelet by default. The apiserver flag "--kubelet-https" is deprecated and should be either set to "true" o...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Disable Use of the Insecure Bind Address

    OpenShift should not bind to non-loopback insecure addresses. Edit the <code>openshift-kube-apiserver</code> configmap and remove the <code>insecur...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Prevent Insecure Port Access

    By default, traffic for the OpenShift API server is served over HTTPS with authentication and authorization, and the secure API endpoint is bound t...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Configure the kubelet Certificate Authority for the API Server

    To ensure OpenShift verifies kubelet certificates before establishing connections, follow the OpenShift documentation and setup the TLS connection ...
    Rule High Severity
  • Configure the kubelet Certificate File for the API Server

    To enable certificate based kubelet authentication, edit the <code>config</code> configmap in the <code>openshift-kube-apiserver</code> namespace a...
    Rule High Severity
  • Configure the kubelet Certificate File for the API Server

    To enable certificate based kubelet authentication, edit the <code>config</code> configmap in the <code>openshift-kube-apiserver</code> namespace a...
    Rule High Severity

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