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Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-APP-000294

    Group
  • Tanium must notify system administrators and the information system security officer (ISSO) for account removal actions.

    When application accounts are removed, user accessibility is affected. Accounts are utilized for identifying users or for identifying the application processes. Sending notification of account remo...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000121

    Group
  • The Tanium application must prohibit user installation, modification, or deletion of software without explicit privileged status.

    Allowing regular users to install, modify, or delete software, without explicit privileges, creates the risk that the application performs in a manner inconsistent with its design. Explicit privile...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000323

    Group
  • The Tanium database(s) must be installed on a separate system.

    Failure to protect organizational information from data mining may result in a compromise of information. Data storage objects include, for example, databases, database records, and database field...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000323

    Group
  • The Tanium application database must be dedicated to only the Tanium application.

    Failure to protect organizational information from data mining may result in a compromise of information. Data storage objects include, for example, databases, database records, and database field...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000381

    Group
  • The access to the Tanium SQL database must be restricted. Only the designated database administrator(s) can have elevated privileges to the Tanium SQL database.

    After the Tanium Server has been installed and the Tanium databases created, only the Tanium Server needs to access the SQL Server database.
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000381

    Group
  • The Tanium Server installer's account database permissions must be reduced to an appropriate level.

    Creating the "tanium" and "tanium_archive" databases through the Tanium Server installer program or using the database to create SQL scripts requires Sysadmin-level permissions. Once the databases ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000383

    Group
  • Firewall rules must be configured on the Tanium Server for server-to-database communications.

    The Tanium Server can use either a SQL Server relational database management system (RDBMS) installed locally to the same device as the Tanium Server application or a remote dedicated or shared SQL...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000003

    Group
  • The Tanium Application Server console must be configured to initiate a session lock after a 15-minute period of inactivity.

    When multifactor authentication is enabled, the Tanium Console will initiate a session lock based on the ActivClient or other smartcard software. By initiating the session lock, the console will ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000015

    Group
  • Tanium Trusted Content providers must be documented.

    A Tanium Sensor, also called content, enables an organization to gather real-time inventory, configuration, and compliance data elements from managed computers. Sensors gather specific information ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000015

    Group
  • Content providers must provide their public key to the Tanium administrator to import for validating signed content.

    A Tanium Sensor, also called content, enables an organization to gather real-time inventory, configuration, and compliance data elements from managed computers. Sensors gather specific information ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000015

    Group
  • Tanium public keys of content providers must be validated against documented trusted content providers.

    A Tanium Sensor, also called content, enables an organization to gather real-time inventory, configuration, and compliance data elements from managed computers. Sensors gather specific information ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000033

    Group
  • The Tanium Action Approval feature must be enabled for two-person integrity when deploying actions to endpoints.

    The Tanium Action Approval feature provides a two-person integrity control mechanism designed to achieve a high level of security and reduce the possibility of error for critical operations. When ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000039

    Group
  • The Tanium documentation identifying recognized and trusted indicator of compromise (IOC) streams must be maintained.

    Using trusted and recognized IOC sources may detect compromise and prevent systems from becoming compromised. An IOC stream is a series or stream of IOCs that are imported from a vendor based on a ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000039

    Group
  • Tanium Threat Response must be configured to receive IOC streams only from trusted sources.

    Using trusted and recognized IOC sources may detect compromise and prevent systems from becoming compromised. An IOC stream is a series or stream of intel that is imported from a vendor based on a ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000115

    Group
  • The Tanium applications must be configured to filter audit records for events of interest based on organization-defined criteria.

    The ability to specify the event criteria that are of interest enables those reviewing the logs to quickly isolate and identify these events without having to review entries that are of little or n...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000131

    Group
  • The Tanium cryptographic signing capabilities must be enabled on the Tanium Server.

    All of Tanium's signing capabilities should be enabled upon install. Tanium supports the cryptographic signing and verification before execution of all Sensors, Questions, Actions, Sensor Libraries...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000131

    Group
  • The Tanium Server must be configured to allow only signed content to be imported.

    Changes to any software components can have significant effects on the overall security of the application. Verifying software components have been digitally signed using a certificate that is reco...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000133

    Group
  • All installation files originally downloaded to the Tanium Server must be configured to download to a location other than the Tanium Server directory.

    Typically, the Tanium Server stores the Package Source Files that it downloads from the internet and server shares or files uploaded through the Tanium Console in a subdirectory of the server's ins...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000142

    Group
  • Firewall rules must be configured on the Tanium Server for client-to-server communications.

    In addition to the client-to-server TCP communication that takes place over port 17472, Tanium Clients also communicate to other Tanium-managed computers over port 17472. Without proper firewall co...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000142

    Group
  • Firewall rules must be configured on the Tanium Zone Server for Client-to-Zone Server communications.

    In customer environments using the Tanium Zone Server, a Tanium Client may be configured to point to a Zone Server instead of a Tanium Server. The communication requirements for these Clients are i...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000142

    Group
  • The Tanium Application Server must be configured to prohibit or restrict the use of organization-defined functions, ports, protocols, and/or services, as defined in the PPSM Category Assurance List (CAL) and vulnerability assessments.

    To prevent unauthorized connection of devices, unauthorized transfer of information, or unauthorized tunneling (i.e., embedding of data types within data types), organizations must disable or restr...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000175

    Group
  • The Tanium Server certificates must have Extended Key Usage entries for the serverAuth object TLS Web Server Authentication and the clientAuth object TLS Web Client Authentication.

    Restricting this setting limits the user's ability to change their password. Passwords must be changed at specific policy-based intervals; however, if the application allows the user to immediately...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000328

    Group
  • The Tanium Server directory must be restricted with appropriate permissions.

    Discretionary Access Control (DAC) is based on the notion that individual users are "owners" of objects and therefore have discretion over who should be authorized to access the object and in which...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000328

    Group
  • The Tanium Server http directory and subdirectories must be restricted with appropriate permissions.

    Discretionary Access Control (DAC) is based on the notion that individual users are "owners" of objects and therefore have discretion over who should be authorized to access the object and in which...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000328

    Group
  • The permissions on the Tanium Server registry keys must be restricted to only the Tanium service account and the [Tanium Admins] group.

    Discretionary Access Control (DAC) is based on the notion that individual users are "owners" of objects and therefore have discretion over who should be authorized to access the object and in which...
    Rule Medium Severity

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