Unclassified Information in Non-federal Information Systems and Organizations (NIST 800-171)
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
-
Ensure SELinux State is Enforcing
The SELinux state should be set to <code><xccdf-1.2:sub idref="xccdf_org.ssgproject.content_value_var_selinux_state" use="legacy"></xccdf-1.2:sub></code> at system boot time. In the file <code>/et...Rule High Severity -
Services
The best protection against vulnerable software is running less software. This section describes how to review the software which Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 installs on a system and disable softwar...Group -
Base Services
This section addresses the base services that are installed on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 default installation which are not covered in other sections. Some of these services listen on the networ...Group -
Uninstall Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (abrt)
The Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (<code>abrt</code>) collects and reports crash data when an application crash is detected. Using a variety of plugins, abrt can email crash reports to system admini...Rule Medium Severity -
Disable KDump Kernel Crash Analyzer (kdump)
The <code>kdump</code> service provides a kernel crash dump analyzer. It uses the <code>kexec</code> system call to boot a secondary kernel ("capture" kernel) following a system crash, which can lo...Rule Medium Severity -
NFS and RPC
The Network File System is a popular distributed filesystem for the Unix environment, and is very widely deployed. This section discusses the circumstances under which it is possible to disable NF...Group -
Disable All NFS Services if Possible
If there is not a reason for the system to operate as either an NFS client or an NFS server, follow all instructions in this section to disable subsystems required by NFS.Group -
Disable Services Used Only by NFS
If NFS is not needed, disable the NFS client daemons nfslock, rpcgssd, and rpcidmapd. <br><br> All of these daemons run with elevated privileges, and many listen for network connections. If they ar...Group -
Disable rpcbind Service
The rpcbind utility maps RPC services to the ports on which they listen. RPC processes notify rpcbind when they start, registering the ports they are listening on and the RPC program numbers they e...Rule Low Severity -
SSH Server
The SSH protocol is recommended for remote login and remote file transfer. SSH provides confidentiality and integrity for data exchanged between two systems, as well as server authentication, throu...Group
Node 2
The content of the drawer really is up to you. It could have form fields, definition lists, text lists, labels, charts, progress bars, etc. Spacing recommendation is 24px margins. You can put tabs in here, and can also make the drawer scrollable.
Capacity
Modules