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NIST 800-53 High-Impact Baseline for Red Hat OpenShift - Platform level

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • Ensure that a OpenShift OAuth login template or a classification banner is set

    A legal notice must be configured. <br> This is achievable via the OAuth object by creating a custom login page, storing it in a Kubernetes Secret...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure the notification is enabled for Compliance Operator

    The OpenShift platform provides the Compliance Operator for administrators to monitor compliance state of a cluster and provides them with an overv...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure the notification is enabled for file integrity operator

    The OpenShift platform provides the File Integrity Operator to monitor for unwanted file changes, and this control ensures proper notification aler...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Apply Security Context to Your Pods and Containers

    Apply Security Context to your Pods and Containers
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Manage Image Provenance Using ImagePolicyWebhook

    OpenShift administrators can control which images can be imported, tagged, and run in a cluster. There are two facilities for this purpose: (1) All...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The default namespace should not be used

    Kubernetes provides a default namespace, where objects are placed if no namespace is specified for them. Placing objects in this namespace makes ap...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure Seccomp Profile Pod Definitions

    Enable default seccomp profiles in your pod definitions.
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Create administrative boundaries between resources using namespaces

    Use namespaces to isolate your Kubernetes objects.
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure that GitOps Operator is deployed

    Red Hat OpenShift GitOps is a declarative continuous delivery platform based on Argo CD. It enables teams to adopt GitOps principles for managing c...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure that the kubeadmin secret has been removed

    The kubeadmin user is meant to be a temporary user used for bootstrapping purposes. It is preferable to assign system administrators whose users ar...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure that the OpenShift MOTD is set

    To configure OpenShift's MOTD, create a <b>ConfigMap</b> called <code>motd</code> in the <code>openshift</code> namespace. The object should look ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure that all daemonsets has resource limits

    When deploying an application, it is important to tune based on memory and CPU consumption, allocating enough resources for the application to func...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure that all deployments has resource limits

    When deploying an application, it is important to tune based on memory and CPU consumption, allocating enough resources for the application to func...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure that all statefulsets has resource limits

    When deploying an application, it is important to tune based on memory and CPU consumption, allocating enough resources for the application to func...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure workloads use resource requests and limits

    There are two ways to enable resource requests and limits. To create either: A multi-project quota, defined by a ClusterResourceQuota object, all...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • 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
  • Kubernetes Kubelet Settings

    The Kubernetes Kubelet is an agent that runs on each node in the cluster. It makes sure that containers are running in a pod. The kubelet takes a ...
    Group
  • Ensure That The kubelet Client Certificate Is Correctly Set

    To ensure the kubelet TLS client certificate is configured, edit the kubelet configuration file <code>/etc/kubernetes/kubelet.conf</code> and confi...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure That The kubelet Client Certificate Is Correctly Set

    To ensure the kubelet TLS client certificate is configured, edit the kubelet configuration file <code>/etc/kubernetes/kubelet.conf</code> and confi...
    Rule Medium Severity

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