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Tanium 7.3 Security Technical Implementation Guide


Overview

Date Finding Count (102)
2021-12-20 CAT I (High): 3 CAT II (Med): 99 CAT III (Low): 0
STIG Description
This Security Technical Implementation Guide is published as a tool to improve the security of Department of Defense (DoD) information systems. The requirements are derived from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 800-53 and related documents. Comments or proposed revisions to this document should be sent via email to the following address: disa.stig_spt@mail.mil.

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Findings (MAC III - Administrative Public)

Finding ID Severity Title
V-234093 High The Tanium Server certificate and private/public keys directory must be protected with appropriate permissions.
V-234052 High Role-based system access must be configured to least privileged access to Tanium Server functions through the Tanium interface.
V-234056 High Common Access Card (CAC)-based authentication must be enabled on the Tanium Server for network access with privileged accounts.
V-234048 Medium The Tanium Application Server must be configured with a connector to sync to Microsoft Active Directory for account management functions.
V-234049 Medium The Tanium Application Server must be configured to only use Microsoft Active Directory for account management functions.
V-234109 Medium Tanium Server files must be protected from file encryption actions.
V-234070 Medium Documentation defining Tanium functional roles must be maintained.
V-234039 Medium Control of the Tanium Client service must be restricted to SYSTEM access only for all managed clients.
V-234038 Medium Firewall rules must be configured on the Tanium Endpoints for Client-to-Server communications.
V-234037 Medium The Tanium cryptographic signing capabilities must be enabled on the Tanium Clients to safeguard the authenticity of communications sessions when answering requests from the Tanium Server.
V-234036 Medium Access to Tanium logs on each endpoint must be restricted by permissions.
V-234035 Medium The Tanium endpoint must have the Tanium Servers public key in its installation.
V-234034 Medium The vulnerability scanning application must implement privileged access authorization to all Tanium information systems and infrastructure components for selected organization-defined vulnerability scanning activities.
V-234033 Medium Tanium must employ a deny-all, permit-by-exception (whitelist) policy to allow the execution of authorized software programs.
V-234032 Medium Tanium must implement organization-defined automated security responses if baseline configurations are changed in an unauthorized manner.
V-234031 Medium Tanium must centrally review and analyze audit records from multiple components within the system.
V-234079 Medium Tanium Trusted Content providers must be documented.
V-234100 Medium A Tanium connector must be configured to send log data to an external audit log reduction capable system.
V-234088 Medium All installation files originally downloaded to the Tanium Server must be configured to download to a location other than the Tanium Server directory.
V-234089 Medium Firewall rules must be configured on the Tanium Server for Client-to-Server communications.
V-234082 Medium The Tanium Action Approval feature must be enabled for two-person integrity when deploying actions to endpoints.
V-234083 Medium The Tanium documentation identifying recognized and trusted Intel streams must be maintained.
V-234080 Medium Content providers must provide their public key to the Tanium administrator to import for validating signed content.
V-234081 Medium Tanium public keys of content providers must be validated against documented trusted content providers.
V-234086 Medium The Tanium cryptographic signing capabilities must be enabled on the Tanium Server.
V-234087 Medium The Tanium Server must be configured to only allow signed content to be imported.
V-234084 Medium The Tanium Detect must be configured to receive IOC streams only from trusted sources.
V-234085 Medium The Tanium Connect module must be configured to forward Tanium Detect events to identified destinations.
V-234060 Medium Flaw remediation Tanium applications must employ automated mechanisms to determine the state of information system components with regard to flaw remediation using the following frequency: continuously, where HBSS is used; 30 days, for any additional internal network scans not covered by HBSS; and annually, for external scans by Computer Network Defense Service Provider (CNDSP).
V-234061 Medium Tanium must notify SA and ISSO when accounts are created.
V-234099 Medium All Active Directory accounts synchronized with Tanium for non-privileged functions must be non-privileged domain accounts.
V-234098 Medium The Tanium Server Logs and TDL_Logs directories must be restricted with appropriate permissions.
V-234095 Medium The Tanium Server directory must be restricted with appropriate permissions.
V-234094 Medium The Tanium Module server must be installed on a separate system.
V-234097 Medium The permissions on the Tanium Server registry keys must be restricted to only the Tanium service account and the [Tanium Admins] group.
V-234096 Medium The Tanium Server http directory and sub-directories must be restricted with appropriate permissions.
V-234091 Medium 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 CAL and vulnerability assessments.
V-234090 Medium Firewall rules must be configured on the Tanium Zone Server for Client-to-Zone Server communications.
V-234092 Medium 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.
V-234068 Medium Tanium must notify SA and ISSO for account removal actions.
V-234069 Medium The Tanium application must prohibit user installation of software without explicit privileged status.
V-234118 Medium Tanium Comply must be configured to receive SCAP content only from trusted sources.
V-234119 Medium Tanium Comply must be configured to receive OVAL feeds only from trusted sources.
V-234062 Medium Tanium must notify SA and ISSO when accounts are modified.
V-234063 Medium The Tanium application must notify SA and ISSO of account enabling actions.
V-234064 Medium The Tanium application must provide an immediate warning to the SA and ISSO (at a minimum) when allocated audit record storage volume reaches 75% of repository maximum audit record storage capacity.
V-234065 Medium The Tanium enterprise audit log reduction option must be configured to provide alerts based off Tanium audit data.
V-234066 Medium Common Access Card (CAC)-based authentication must be enabled and enforced on the Tanium Server for all access and all accounts.
V-234067 Medium Tanium must notify SA and ISSO for account disabling actions.
V-234110 Medium The SSLCipherSuite must be configured to disable weak encryption algorithms on the Tanium Server.
V-234111 Medium The Tanium max_soap_sessions_total setting must be explicitly enabled to limit the number of simultaneous sessions.
V-234112 Medium The Tanium max_soap_sessions_per_user setting must be explicitly enabled to limit the number of simultaneous sessions.
V-234113 Medium The Tanium soap_max_keep_alive setting must be explicitly enabled to limit the number of simultaneous sessions.
V-234114 Medium The Tanium documentation identifying recognized and trusted folders for Detect Local Directory Source must be maintained.
V-234115 Medium The Tanium Detect Local Directory Source must be configured to restrict access to only authorized maintainers of Intel.
V-234116 Medium The Tanium documentation identifying recognized and trusted SCAP sources must be maintained.
V-234117 Medium The Tanium documentation identifying recognized and trusted OVAL feeds must be maintained.
V-234073 Medium 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.
V-234072 Medium The Tanium application database must be dedicated to only the Tanium application.
V-234071 Medium The Tanium database(s) must be installed on a separate system.
V-234108 Medium Tanium Server files must be excluded from on-access antivirus actions.
V-234077 Medium The Tanium Server must protect the confidentiality and integrity of transmitted information, in preparation to be transmitted and data at rest, with cryptographic signing capabilities enabled to protect the authenticity of communications sessions when making requests from Tanium Clients.
V-234076 Medium SQL stored queries or procedures installed during Tanium installation must be removed from the Tanium Server.
V-234075 Medium Firewall rules must be configured on the Tanium Server for Server-to-Database communications.
V-234074 Medium The Tanium Server installers account database permissions must be reduced to an appropriate level.
V-234103 Medium Firewall rules must be configured on the Tanium Server for Server-to-Module Server communications.
V-234102 Medium Firewall rules must be configured on the Tanium module server to allow Server-to-Module Server communications from the Tanium Server.
V-234101 Medium File integrity monitoring of critical executables that Tanium uses must be configured.
V-234078 Medium The Tanium Application Server console must be configured to initiate a session lock after a 15-minute period of inactivity.
V-234107 Medium Any Tanium configured EMAIL RESULTS connectors must be configured to enable TLS/SSL to encrypt communications.
V-234106 Medium The Tanium Server certificate must be signed by a DoD Certificate Authority.
V-234105 Medium The SSLHonorCipherOrder must be configured to disable weak encryption algorithms on the Tanium Server.
V-234104 Medium Firewall rules must be configured on the Tanium Server for Server-to-Zone Server communications.
V-234046 Medium Tanium endpoint files must be excluded from host-based intrusion prevention intervention.
V-234047 Medium The Tanium application must retain the session lock until the user reestablishes access using established identification and authentication procedures.
V-234044 Medium Tanium endpoint files must be protected from file encryption actions.
V-234045 Medium The Tanium application must restrict the ability of individuals to place too much impact upon the network, which might result in a Denial of Service (DoS) event on the network by using RandomSensorDelayInSeconds.
V-234042 Medium Tanium endpoint files must be excluded from on-access antivirus actions.
V-234043 Medium The Tanium Client Deployment Tool (CDT) must not be configured to use the psexec method of deployment.
V-234040 Medium The ability to uninstall the Tanium Client service must be disabled on all managed clients.
V-234041 Medium The permissions on the Tanium Client directory must be restricted to only the SYSTEM account on all managed clients.
V-234132 Medium The Tanium application must be configured to communicate using TLS 1.2 Strict Only.
V-234130 Medium The Tanium application, SQL and Module servers must all be configured to communicate using TLS 1.2 Strict Only.
V-234131 Medium The Tanium application must be configured to communicate using TLS 1.2 Strict Only.
V-234059 Medium Tanium must alert the ISSO and SA (at a minimum) in the event of an audit processing failure.
V-234058 Medium The publicly accessible Tanium application must display the Standard Mandatory DoD Notice and Consent Banner before granting access to the application.
V-234051 Medium Documentation identifying Tanium console users, their respective functional roles, and computer groups must be maintained.
V-234050 Medium Tanium Computer Groups must be used to restrict console users from affecting changes to unauthorized computers.
V-234053 Medium Tanium console users User Roles must be validated against the documentation for User Roles.
V-234055 Medium Tanium console users Computer Group rights must be validated against the documentation for Computer Group rights.
V-234054 Medium Documentation identifying Tanium console users and their respective Computer Group rights must be maintained.
V-234057 Medium Firewall rules must be configured on the Tanium Server for Console-to-Server communications.
V-234121 Medium The bandwidth consumption for the Tanium Application server must be limited.
V-234120 Medium The Tanium application must be configured in a High-Availability (HA) setup to ensure minimal loss of data and minimal disruption to mission processes in the event of a system failure.
V-234123 Medium The Tanium application must limit the bandwidth used in communicating with endpoints to prevent a Denial of Service (DoS) condition at the server.
V-234122 Medium The Tanium SQL Server RDBMS must be configured with sufficient free space to ensure audit logging is not impacted.
V-234125 Medium Tanium Server files must be excluded from host-based intrusion prevention intervention.
V-234124 Medium The Tanium Application Server must install security-relevant software updates within the time period directed by an authoritative source (e.g., IAVM, CTOs, DTMs, and STIGs).
V-234127 Medium The Tanium application must set an inactive timeout for sessions.
V-234126 Medium The Tanium application must set an absolute timeout for sessions.
V-234129 Medium The Tanium web server must be tuned to handle the operational requirements of the hosted application.
V-234128 Medium The Tanium application service must be protected from being stopped by a non-privileged user.