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://fedorahosted.org/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:

stig-rhel6-server-upstream

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:

stig-rhel7-server-upstream

rht-cpp

common

Fedora PROFILES¶

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

common

EXAMPLES¶

To scan your system utilizing the OpenSCAP utility against the stig-rhel6-server-upstream profile:

oscap xccdf eval --profile stig-rhel6-server-upstream --results /tmp/`hostname`-ssg-results.xml --report /tmp/`hostname`-ssg-results.html --cpe /usr/share/xml/scap/ssg/content/ssg-rhel6-cpe-dictionary.xml /usr/share/xml/scap/ssg/content/ssg-rhel6-xccdf.xml

Additional details can be found on the projects wiki page: https://fedorahosted.org/scap-security-guide/wiki/usageguide

FILES¶

/usr/share/xml/scap/ssg/content/

/usr/share/xml/scap/ssg/guides/

/usr/share/xml/scap/ssg/policytables/

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://fedorahosted.org/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 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://fedorahosted.org/scap-security-guide/. Except for differences in formatting to accomodate 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 concensus 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