NIST National Checklist Program Security Guide

Description

This compliance profile reflects the core set of security related configuration settings for deployment of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x into U.S. Defense, Intelligence, and Civilian agencies. Development partners and sponsors include the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), U.S. Department of Defense, the National Security Agency, and Red Hat. This baseline implements configuration requirements from the following sources: - Committee on National Security Systems Instruction No. 1253 (CNSSI 1253) - NIST Controlled Unclassified Information (NIST 800-171) - NIST 800-53 control selections for MODERATE impact systems (NIST 800-53) - U.S. Government Configuration Baseline (USGCB) - NIAP Protection Profile for General Purpose Operating Systems v4.2.1 (OSPP v4.2.1) - DISA Operating System Security Requirements Guide (OS SRG) For any differing configuration requirements, e.g. password lengths, the stricter security setting was chosen. Security Requirement Traceability Guides (RTMs) and sample System Security Configuration Guides are provided via the scap-security-guide-docs package. This profile reflects U.S. Government consensus content and is developed through the OpenSCAP/SCAP Security Guide initiative, championed by the National Security Agency. Except for differences in formatting to accommodate publishing processes, this profile mirrors OpenSCAP/SCAP Security Guide content as minor divergences, such as bugfixes, work through the consensus and release processes.