Tanium 7.x Operating System on TanOS Security Technical Implementation Guide

Overview

VersionDateFinding Count (31)Downloads
22025-02-11CAT I (High): 2CAT II (Medium): 29CAT 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.
ClassifiedPublicSensitive
I - Mission Critical ClassifiedI - Mission Critical PublicI - Mission Critical Sensitive
II - Mission Support ClassifiedII - Mission Support PublicII - Mission Support Sensitive
III - Administrative ClassifiedIII - Administrative PublicIII - Administrative Sensitive

Findings - MAC III - Administrative Sensitive

Finding IDSeverityTitleDescription
V-254839
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Tanium Operating System (TanOS) must enforce the limit of three consecutive invalid logon attempts by a user during a 15 minute time period.By limiting the number of failed login attempts, the risk of unauthorized system access via user password guessing, otherwise known as brute forcing, ...
V-254840
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Tanium Operating System (TanOS) must display the Standard Mandatory DOD Notice and Consent Banner before granting access to the system.Display of a standardized and approved use notification before granting access to the operating system ensures privacy and security notification verbi...
V-254841
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Tanium Operating System (TanOS) must limit the number of concurrent sessions to an organization-defined number for all accounts and/or account types.Operating system management includes the ability to control the number of users and user sessions that utilize an operating system. Limiting the numbe...
V-254842
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Tanium operating system (TanOS) must alert the ISSO and SA (at a minimum) in the event of an audit processing failure.It is critical for the appropriate personnel to be aware if a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required. Without this notificatio...
V-254843
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Tanium Operating System (TanOS) must enforce 24 hours/one day as the maximum password lifetime.Enforcing a minimum password lifetime helps to prevent repeated password changes to defeat the password reuse or history enforcement requirement. If u...
V-254844
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Tanium Operating System (TanOS) must enforce a 60-day maximum password lifetime restriction.Any password, no matter how complex, can eventually be cracked. Therefore, passwords need to be changed periodically. One method of minimizing this ...
V-254846
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Tanium Operating System (TanOS) must enforce a minimum 15-character password length.The shorter the password, the lower the number of possible combinations that need to be tested before the password is compromised. Password complexit...
V-254848
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Tanium Operating System (TanOS) must use multifactor authentication for network access to nonprivileged accounts.To assure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, nonprivileged users must utilize multifactor authentication to prevent potential misuse a...
V-254849
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Tanium Operating System (TanOS) must use FIPS-validated SHA-2 or higher hash function to protect the integrity of hash message authentication code (HMAC), Key Derivation Functions (KDFs), Random Bit Generation, and hash-only applications.To protect the integrity of the authenticator and authentication mechanism used for the cryptographic module used by the network device, the applicati...
V-254851
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Tanium Operating System (TanOS) must manage excess capacity, bandwidth, or other redundancy to limit the effects of information flooding types of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.DoS is a condition that occurs when a resource is not available for legitimate users. When this occurs, the organization either cannot accomplish its ...
V-254852
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
Tanium Operating System (TanOS) must terminate all network connections associated with a communications session at the end of the session, or as follows: For in-band management sessions (privileged sessions), the session must be terminated after 10 minutes of inactivity; for user sessions (nonprivileged session), the session must be terminated after 15 minutes of inactivity, except to fulfill documented and validated mission requirements.Terminating an idle session within a short time period reduces the window of opportunity for unauthorized personnel to take control of a management se...
V-254853
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Tanium Operating System (TanOS) must use FIPS-validated encryption and hashing algorithms to protect the confidentiality and integrity of operating system configuration and user-generated data stored on the host.Confidentiality and integrity protections are intended to address the confidentiality and integrity of system information at rest when it is located o...
V-254854
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Tanium Operating System (TanOS) must notify the ISSO and ISSM of failed security verification tests.If personnel are not notified of failed security verification tests, they will not be able to take corrective action and the unsecure condition(s) wil...
V-254855
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The publicly accessible Tanium Operating System (TanOS) must display the Standard Mandatory DOD Notice and Consent Banner before granting access to the system.Display of a standardized and approved use notification before granting access to the publicly accessible operating system ensures privacy and securit...
V-254856
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Tanium Operating System (TanOS) must notify system administrators (SAs) and information system security officers (ISSOs) when accounts are created.Once an attacker establishes access to a system, the attacker often attempts to create a persistent method of reestablishing access. One way to accomp...
V-254857
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Tanium Operating System (TanOS) must audit and notify system administrators (SAs) and information system security officers (ISSOs) when accounts are modified.Once an attacker establishes access to a system, the attacker often attempts to create a persistent method of reestablishing access. One way to accomp...
V-254858
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Tanium Operating System (TanOS) must notify system administrators (SAs) and information system security officers (ISSOs) when accounts are removed.When operating system accounts are removed, user accessibility is affected. Accounts are utilized for identifying individual operating system users or...
V-254859
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
Tanium Operating System (TanOS) must automatically terminate a user session after organization-defined conditions or trigger events requiring session disconnect.Automatic session termination addresses the termination of user-initiated logical sessions in contrast to the termination of network connections that ...
V-254860
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
Tanium must audit and notify system administrators (SAs) and information system security officers (ISSOs) when accounts are enabled.Once an attacker establishes access to a system, the attacker often attempts to create a persistent method of reestablishing access. One way to accomp...
V-254861
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
Tanium must automatically lock accounts and require them be unlocked by an administrator when three unsuccessful login attempts in 15 minutes are exceeded.By limiting the number of failed login attempts, the risk of unauthorized system access via user password guessing, otherwise known as brute forcing, ...
V-254862
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Tanium operating system (TanOS) must offload audit records onto a different system or media than the system being audited.Information stored in one location is vulnerable to accidental or incidental deletion or alteration. Offloading is a common process in information s...
V-254863
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Tanium operating system (TanOS) must provide an immediate warning to the SA and ISSO (at a minimum) when allocated audit record storage volume reaches 75 percent of repository maximum audit record storage capacity.If security personnel are not notified immediately when storage volume reaches 75 percent, they are unable to plan for audit record storage capacity e...
V-254864
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Tanium operating system (TanOS) must provide an immediate real-time alert to the SA and ISSO, at a minimum, of all audit failure events requiring real-time alerts.It is critical for the appropriate personnel to be aware if a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required. Without a real-time aler...
V-254865
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Tanium operating system (TanOS) must, for networked systems, compare internal information system clocks at least every 24 hours with a server synchronized to one of the redundant United States Naval Observatory (USNO) time servers or a time server designated for the appropriate DOD network (NIPRNet/SIPRNet), and/or the Global Positioning System (GPS).Inaccurate time stamps make it more difficult to correlate events and can lead to an inaccurate analysis. Determining the correct time a particular ev...
V-254866
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Tanium Operating System (TanOS) must synchronize internal information system clocks to the authoritative time source when the time difference is greater than the organization-defined time period.Inaccurate time stamps make it more difficult to correlate events and can lead to an inaccurate analysis. Determining the correct time a particular ev...
V-254867
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Tanium Operating System (TanOS) must be configured to synchronize internal information system clocks with the primary and secondary time sources located in different geographic regions using redundant authoritative time sources.The loss of connectivity to a particular authoritative time source will result in the loss of time synchronization (free-run mode) and increasingly in...
V-254868
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Tanium operating system (TanOS) must perform data integrity verification on the name/address resolution responses the system receives from authoritative sources.If data origin authentication and data integrity verification is not performed, the resultant response could be forged, it may have come from a poison...
V-254869
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Tanium operating system (TanOS) must perform data origin verification authentication on the name/address resolution responses the system receives from authoritative sources.If data origin authentication and data integrity verification is not performed, the resultant response could be forged, it may have come from a poison...
V-254871
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Tanium operating system (TanOS) must install security-relevant software updates within the time period directed by an authoritative source (e.g., IAVM, CTOs, DTMs, and STIGs).Security flaws with operating systems are discovered daily. Vendors are constantly updating and patching their products to address newly discovered se...
V-254847
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Tanium Operating System (TanOS) must use multifactor authentication for network access to privileged accounts.Without the use of multifactor authentication, the ease of access to privileged functions is greatly increased. Multifactor authentication requires ...
V-254873
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Tanium Operating System (TanOS) must use a FIPS-validated cryptographic module to provision digital signatures.FIPS 140-2 precludes the use of invalidated cryptography for the cryptographic protection of sensitive or valuable data within federal systems. Un-val...