Automated security hardening for Linux hosts with Ansible

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What does the role do?

This role uses the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) guidance from the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). The STIG is released with a public domain license and it is commonly used to secure systems at public and private organizations around the world.

We analyze each configuration hardening item from the applicable STIG benchmark to determine what impact it has on a live production environment and how to best implement it using Ansible. Tasks are added to the role that configure a host to meet the configuration requirements. Each task is documented to explain what was changed, why it was changed, and what deployers need to understand about the change.

Deployers have the option to enable/disable STIG items that do not suit their environments needs. Each STIG item has an associated variable that can be used to switch it on or off. Additionally, the items that have configurable values, i.e. number of password attempts, will generally have a corresponding variable that allows for customization of the applied value. It is imperative for each deployer to understand the regulations and compliance requirements that their organization and specific environments are responsible for meeting in order to effeectively implement the controls in the RHEL 7 STIG.

Documentation

The following documentation applies to the devel branch and is currently under active development. Documentation for the latest stable and previous stable releases will be generated and available once the first stable release is cut.

Releases

devel

  • Status: Active development
  • STIG Version: RHEL 7 Version 2, Release 1 (Published on 2018-09-26 )
  • Supported Operating Systems:
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
    • CentOS 7
  • Targeted Operating Systems:
These are not yet supported but are on the target list.
  • Debian 8 Jessie
  • Fedora 26
  • openSUSE Leap 42.2 and 42.3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise 12