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Protection Profile for General Purpose Operating Systems

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • Set the UEFI Boot Loader Password

    The grub2 boot loader should have a superuser account and password protection enabled to protect boot-time settings. <br><br> Since plaintext passw...
    Rule High Severity
  • zIPL bootloader configuration

    During the boot process, the bootloader is responsible for starting the execution of the kernel and passing options to it. The default Red Hat Ente...
    Group
  • Enable Auditing to Start Prior to the Audit Daemon in zIPL

    To ensure all processes can be audited, even those which start prior to the audit daemon, check that all boot entries in <code>/boot/loader/entries...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Extend Audit Backlog Limit for the Audit Daemon in zIPL

    To improve the kernel capacity to queue all log events, even those which start prior to the audit daemon, check that all boot entries in <code>/boo...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure all zIPL boot entries are BLS compliant

    Ensure that zIPL boot entries fully adheres to Boot Loader Specification (BLS) by checking that <code>/etc/zipl.conf</code> doesn't contain <code>i...
    Rule Medium Severity

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