Hi list, I just posted in my blog about the new support for CIS benchmarks on OSSEC and I want to hear the feedback anyone may have.
Link: http://www.ossec.net/dcid/?p=137 " We just included support in the OSSEC Policy monitor to audit if a system is in compliance with the CIS Security Benchmarks (as of right now, only RHEL2-5, Fedora 1-5 and Debian/Ubuntu are supported - the other versions will be soon). If you want to try it out manually and provide some feedback to us, please follow the instructions bellow to test: First, grab the latest CVS snapshot and compile it (it will be included on v1.6 and above): # wget http://www.ossec.net/files/snapshots/ossec-hids-080710.tar.gz # tar -zxvf ossec-hids-080710.tar.gz # cd ossec-hids-080710/src/ # make clean # make libs # cd rootcheck # make binary The binary ossec-rootcheck will be created on the current directory and we can start using it. A simple scan on my Ubuntu box looked like this: (note, that it will do all the normal rootcheck tests plus the CIS scans — just grep for CIS if you don't want to see the rest): # ./ossec-rootcheck .. [INFO]: System Audit: CIS - Testing against the CIS Debian Linux Benchmark v1.0. File: /proc/sys/kernel/ostype. Reference: http://www.ossec.net/wiki/index.php/CIS_DebianLinux . [INFO]: System Audit: CIS - Debian Linux 1.4 - Robust partition scheme - /tmp is not on its own partition. File: /etc/fstab. Reference: http://www.ossec.net/wiki/index.php/CIS_DebianLinux . [INFO]: System Audit: CIS - Debian Linux 1.4 - Robust partition scheme - /var is not on its own partition. File: /etc/fstab. Reference: http://www.ossec.net/wiki/index.php/CIS_DebianLinux . [INFO]: System Audit: CIS - Debian Linux 2.3 - SSH Configuration - Root login allowed. File: /etc/ssh/sshd_config. Reference: http://www.ossec.net/wiki/index.php/CIS_DebianLinux . [INFO]: System Audit: CIS - Debian Linux 2.4 - System Accounting - Sysstat not enabled. File: /etc/default/sysstat. Reference: http://www.ossec.net/wiki/index.php/CIS_DebianLinux . [INFO]: System Audit: CIS - Debian Linux 4.18 - Disable standard boot services - Squid Enabled. File: /etc/init.d/squid. Reference: http://www.ossec.net/wiki/index.php/CIS_DebianLinux . [INFO]: System Audit: CIS - Debian Linux 7.2 - Removable partition /media without 'nodev' set. File: /etc/fstab. Reference: http://www.ossec.net/wiki/index.php/CIS_DebianLinux . [INFO]: System Audit: CIS - Debian Linux 7.2 - Removable partition /media without 'nosuid' set. File: /etc/fstab. Reference: http://www.ossec.net/wiki/index.php/CIS_DebianLinux . [INFO]: System Audit: CIS - Debian Linux 7.3 - User-mounted removable partition /media. File: /etc/fstab. Reference: http://www.ossec.net/wiki/index.php/CIS_DebianLinux . [INFO]: System Audit: CIS - Debian Linux 8.8 - GRUB Password not set. File: /boot/grub/menu.lst. Reference: http://www.ossec.net/wiki/index.php/CIS_DebianLinux . .. Anyone here using CIS (or FDCC)? As always, feedback and suggestions are welcome. " Thanks, -- Daniel B. Cid dcid ( at ) ossec.net
