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Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) Essential Eight

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • Kubernetes Settings

    Each section of this configuration guide includes information about the configuration of a Kubernetes cluster and a set of recommendations for hardening the configuration. For each hardening recomm...
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  • OpenShift Kube API Server

    This section contains recommendations for kube-apiserver configuration.
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  • 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>Secrets</li> <li>ConfigMaps</li> <li>Routes</li> <...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Use Strong Cryptographic Ciphers on the API Server

    To ensure that the API Server is configured to only use strong cryptographic ciphers, verify the <code>openshift-kube-apiserver</code> configmap contains the following set of ciphers, with no addit...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Authentication

    In cloud workloads, there are many ways to create and configure to multiple authentication services. Some of these authentication methods by not be secure or common methodologies, or they may not b...
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  • Do Not Use htpasswd-based IdP

    <p> For users to interact with OpenShift Container Platform, they must first authenticate to the cluster. The authentication layer identifies the user associated with requests to the...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Kubernetes - General Security Practices

    Contains evaluations for general security practices for operating a Kubernetes environment.
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  • This is a helper rule to fetch the required api resource for detecting HyperShift OCP version

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    Rule Medium Severity
  • This is a helper rule to fetch the required api resource for detecting OCP version

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    Rule Medium Severity
  • Role-based Access Control

    Role-based access control (RBAC) objects determine whether a user is allowed to perform a given action within a project. Cluster administrators can use the cluster roles and bindings to control wh...
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