scap-security-guide(8)

NAME
SCAP-Security-Guide - Delivers security guidance, baselines, and associated validation mechanisms utilizing the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP).

DESCRIPTION
The project provides practical security hardening advice for Red Hat products, and also links it to compliance requirements in order to ease deployment activities, such as certification and accreditation. These include requirements in the U.S. government (Federal, Defense, and Intelligence Community) as well as of the financial services and health care industries. For example, high-level and widely-accepted policies such as NIST 800-53 provides prose stating that System Administrators must audit "privileged user actions," but do not define what "privileged actions" are. The SSG bridges the gap between generalized policy requirements and specific implementation guidance, in SCAP formats to support automation whenever possible.

The projects homepage is located at: https://www.open-scap.org/security-policies/scap-security-guide

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 PROFILES
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 SSG content is broken into 'profiles,' groupings of security settings that correlate to a known policy. Available profiles are:

C2S
    The C2S profile demonstrates compliance against the U.S. Government Commercial Cloud Services (C2S) baseline.

    This baseline was inspired by the Center for Internet Security (CIS) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Benchmark, v1.1.0 - 04-02-2015. For the SCAP Security Guide project to remain in compliance with CIS' terms and conditions, specifically Restrictions(8), note there is no representation or claim that the C2S profile will ensure a system is in compliance or consistency with the CIS baseline.

CS2
    The CS2 is an example of a customized server profile.

CSCF-RHEL6-MLS
    The CSCF RHEL6 MLS Core Baseline profile reflects the Centralized Super Computing Facility (CSCF) baseline for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. This baseline has received government ATO through the ICD 503 process, utilizing the CNSSI 1253 cross domain overlay. This profile should be considered in active development. Additional tailoring will be needed, such as the creation of RBAC roles for production deployment.

desktop
    The Desktop Baseline profile is for a desktop installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

fisma-medium-rhel6-server
    A FISMA Medium profile for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

ftp
    A profile for FTP servers

nist-cl-il-al
    The CNSSI 1253 Low/Low/Low Control Baseline for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Profile follows the Committee on National Security Systems Instruction (CNSSI) No. 1253, "Security Categorization and Control Selection for National Security Systems" on security controls to meet low confidentiality, low integrity, and low assurance."

pci-dss
    The PCI-DSS v3 Control Baseline Profile for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is a *draft* profile for PCI-DSS v3

rht-ccp
    The Red Hat Corporate Profile for Certified Cloud Providers (RH CCP) profile is a *draft* SCAP profile for Red Hat Certified Cloud Providers.

server
    The Server Baseline profile is for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 acting as a server.

standard
    The Standard System Security Profile contains rules to ensure standard security baseline of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 system. Regardless of your system's workload all of these checks should pass.

stig-rhel6-disa
    The Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) and the NSA Guides are the configuration standards for DOD IA and IA-enabled devices/systems. Since 1998, DISA Field Security Operations (FSO) has played a critical role enhancing the security posture of DoD's security systems by providing the Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs). This profile was created as a collaboration effort between the National Security Agency, DISA FSO, and Red Hat.

    As a result of the upstream/downstream relationship between the SCAP Security Guide project and the official DISA FSO STIG baseline, users should expect variance between SSG and DISA FSO content. For additional information relating to STIGs, please refer to the DISA FSO webpage at http://iase.disa.mil/stigs/

    While this profile is packaged by Red Hat as part of the SCAP Security Guide package, please note that commercial support of this SCAP content is NOT available. This profile is provided as example SCAP content with no endorsement for suitability or production readiness. Support for this profile is provided by the upstream SCAP Security Guide community on a best-effort basis. The upstream project homepage is https://www.open-scap.org/security-policies/scap-security-guide.

    This profile is being developed under the DoD consensus model to become a STIG in coordination with DISA FSO.

usgcb-rhel6-server
    The purpose of the United States Government Configuration Baseline (USGCB) initiative is to create security configuration baselines for Information Technology products widely deployed across the federal agencies. The USGCB baseline evolved from the Federal Desktop Core Configuration mandate. The USGCB is a Federal government-wide initiative that provides guidance to agencies on what should be done to improve and maintain an effective configuration settings focusing primarily on security.

    NOTE: While the current content maps to USGCB requirements, it has NOT been validated by NIST as of yet. This content should be considered draft, we are highly interested in feedback.

    For additional information relating to USGCB, please refer to the NIST webpage at http://usgcb.nist.gov/usgcb_content.html.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 PROFILES
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 SSG content is broken into 'profiles,' groupings of security settings that correlate to a known policy. Available profiles are:

C2S
    The C2S profile demonstrates compliance against the U.S. Government Commercial Cloud Services (C2S) baseline.

    This baseline was inspired by the Center for Internet Security (CIS) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Benchmark, v1.1.0 - 04-02-2015. For the SCAP Security Guide project to remain in compliance with CIS' terms and conditions, specifically Restrictions(8), note there is no representation or claim that the C2S profile will ensure a system is in compliance or consistency with the CIS baseline.

cjis-rhel7-server
    The Criminal Justice Information Services Security Policy is a *draft* profile for CJIS v5.4. The scope of this profile is to configure Red Hat Enteprise Linux 7 against the U. S. Department of Justice, FBI CJIS Security Policy.

common
    The common profile is intended to be used as a base, universal profile for scanning of general-purpose Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems.

docker-host
    The Standard Docker Host Security Profile contains rules to ensure standard security baseline of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 system running the docker daemon. This discussion is currently being held on open-scap-list@redhat.com and scap-security-guide@lists.fedorahosted.org.

ospp
    This profile is developed in partnership with the U.S. National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST), U.S. Department of Defense, the National Security Agency, and Red Hat. The USGCB is intended to be the core set of security related configuration settings by which all federal agencies should comply.

pci-dss
    The PCI-DSS v3 Control Baseline Profile for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 is a *draft* profile for PCI-DSS v3

rht-ccp
    The Red Hat Corporate Profile for Certified Cloud Providers (RH CCP) profile is a *draft* SCAP profile for Red Hat Certified Cloud Providers.

standard
    The Standard System Security Profile contains rules to ensure standard security baseline of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 system. Regardless of your system's workload all of these checks should pass.

stig-rhel7-disa
    The DISA STIG for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Server V1R4.

    The Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) and the NSA Guides are the configuration standards for DOD IA and IA-enabled devices/systems. Since 1998, DISA Field Security Operations (FSO) has played a critical role enhancing the security posture of DoD's security systems by providing the Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs). This profile was created as a collaboration effort between the National Security Agency, DISA FSO, and Red Hat.

    As a result of the upstream/downstream relationship between the SCAP Security Guide project and the official DISA FSO STIG baseline, users should expect variance between SSG and DISA FSO content. For additional information relating to STIGs, please refer to the DISA FSO webpage at http://iase.disa.mil/stigs/

    While this profile is packaged by Red Hat as part of the SCAP Security Guide package, please note that commercial support of this SCAP content is NOT available. This profile is provided as example SCAP content with no endorsement for suitability or production readiness. Support for this profile is provided by the upstream SCAP Security Guide community on a best-effort basis. The upstream project homepage is https://www.open-scap.org/security-policies/scap-security-guide.

    This profile is developed under the DoD consensus model to become a STIG in coordination with DISA FSO.

nist-800-171-cui
    Unclassified Information in Non-federal Information Systems and Organizations (NIST 800-171)

    From NIST 800-171, Section 2.2: Security requirements for protecting the confidentiality of CUI in nonfederal information systems and organizations have a well-defined structure that consists of: (i) a basic security requirements section; and (ii) a derived security requirements section. The basic security requirements are obtained from FIPS Publication 200, which provides the high-level and fundamental security requirements for federal information and information systems. The derived security requirements, which supplement the basic security requirements, are taken from the security controls in NIST Special Publication 800-53.

    This profile configures Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 to the NIST Special Publication 800-53 controls identified for securing Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI).

Fedora PROFILES
The Fedora SSG content is broken into 'profiles,' groupings of security settings that correlate to a known policy. Currently available profile:

common
    The common profile is intended to be used as a base, universal profile for scanning of general-purpose Fedora systems.

standard
    The Standard System Security Profile contains rules to ensure standard security baseline of a Fedora system. Regardless of your system's workload all of these checks should pass.

EXAMPLES
To scan your system utilizing the OpenSCAP utility against the ospp profile:

oscap xccdf eval --profile ospp --results /tmp/`hostname`-ssg-results.xml --report /tmp/`hostname`-ssg-results.html --oval-results /usr/share/xml/scap/ssg/content/ssg-rhel7-xccdf.xml

Additional details can be found on the projects wiki page: https://www.github.com/OpenSCAP/scap-security-guide/wiki

FILES
/usr/share/xml/scap/ssg/content
    Houses SCAP content utilizing the following naming conventions:

    CPE_Dictionaries: ssg-{profile}-cpe-dictionary.xml

    CPE_OVAL_Content: ssg-{profile}-cpe-oval.xml

    OVAL_Content: ssg-{profile}-oval.xml

    XCCDF_Content: ssg-{profile}-xccdf.xml

/usr/share/doc/scap-security-guide/guides/
    HTML versions of SSG profiles.

STATEMENT OF SUPPORT
The SCAP Security Guide, an open source project jointly maintained by Red Hat and the NSA, provides XCCDF and OVAL content for Red Hat technologies. As an open source project, community participation extends into U.S. Department of Defense agencies, civilian agencies, academia, and other industrial partners.

SCAP Security Guide is provided to consumers through Red Hat's Extended Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository. As such, SCAP Security Guide content is considered "vendor provided."

Note that while Red Hat hosts the infrastructure for this project and Red Hat engineers are involved as maintainers and leaders, there is no commercial support contracts or service level agreements provided by Red Hat.

Support, for both users and developers, is provided through the SCAP Security Guide community.

Homepage: https://www.open-scap.org/security-policies/scap-security-guide

Mailing List: https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/scap-security-guide

DEPLOYMENT TO U.S. CIVILIAN GOVERNMENT SYSTEMS
SCAP Security Guide content is considered vendor (Red Hat) provided content. Per guidance from the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), U.S. Government programs are allowed to use Vendor produced SCAP content in absence of "Governmental Authority" checklists. The specific NIST verbage: http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/ncp/repository/glossary?cid=1#Authority

DEPLOYMENT TO U.S. MILITARY SYSTEMS
DoD Directive (DoDD) 8500.1 requires that "all IA and IA-enabled IT products incorporated into DoD information systems shall be configured in accordance with DoD-approved security configuration guidelines" and tasks Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) to "develop and provide security configuration guidance for IA and IA-enabled IT products in coordination with Director, NSA." The output of this authority is the DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides, or STIGs. DISA FSO is in the process of moving the STIGs towards the use of the NIST Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) in order to "automate" compliance reporting of the STIGs.

Through a common, shared vision, the SCAP Security Guide community enjoys close collaboration directly with NSA, NIST, and DISA FSO. As stated in Section 1.1 of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 STIG Overview, Version 1, Release 2, issued on 03-JUNE-2013:

"The consensus content was developed using an open-source project called SCAP Security Guide. The project's website is https://www.open-scap.org/security-policies/scap-security-guide. Except for differences in formatting to accommodate the DISA STIG publishing process, the content of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 STIG should mirrot the SCAP Security Guide content with only minor divergence as updates from multiple sources work through the consensus process."

The DoD STIG for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 was released June 2013. Currently, the DoD Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 STIG contains only XCCDF content and is available online: http://iase.disa.mil/stigs/os/unix-linux/Pages/red-hat.aspx

Content published against the iase.disa.mil website is authoritative STIG content. The SCAP Security Guide project, as noted in the STIG overview, is considered upstream content. Unlike DISA FSO, the SCAP Security Guide project does publish OVAL automation content. Individual programs and C&A evaluators make program-level determinations on the direct usage of the SCAP Security Guide. Currently there is no blanket approval.

SEE ALSO
oscap(8)

AUTHOR
Please direct all questions to the SSG mailing list: https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/scap-security-guide