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We are going to use "master" branch only for fully tested changes.
Going forward please send your pull requests to "build" branch.
We need more community support to make changes and most importantly to test and review changes. If you would like to participate, please send a note to Anth or Chandan.
The major work to be done are
This ansible role applies v2.0.0 of the CIS Amazon Linux Benchmark. https://benchmarks.cisecurity.org/tools2/linux/CIS_Amazon_Linux_Benchmark_v2.0.0.pdf
This role was developed and tested against Amazon Linux 2016.03. It has been tested against Amazon Linux 2016.09 with equal success.
If you are attempting to obtain compliance against an industry-accepted security standard, like PCI DSS, APRA or ISO 27001, then you need to demonstrate that you have applied documented hardening standards against all systems within scope of assessment.
If you are running Amazon Linux, then this role attempts to provide one piece of the solution to the compliance puzzle.
If you are considering applying this role to any servers, you should have a basic familiarity with the CIS Benchmark (or other similar benchmarks) and an appreciation for the impact that it may have on a system.
Please take the time to familarise yourself with the standard and with the configurable default values, and exclude any items before applying to a system.
An examples of items that should be immediately considered for exclusion (or at least, for modification of the related default values) include:
3.4.2
and 3.4.3
, which by default effectively limit access to the host (including via ssh) to localhost only.By default SElinux is disabled via grub in amazon linux.
To enable edit ;
/boot/grub/menu.lst
Modifiy selinux=0 to selinux=1
touch /etc/selinux/config
Also install the following package to allow the ansible SElinux module to function on the host.
yum install libselinux-python
A reboot will be neccessary for the changes to take effect.
An example playbook which uses this role is as follows:
---
- hosts: localhost
connection: local
gather_facts: true
become: yes
roles:
- anthcourtney.cis-amazon-linux
A more advanced example, which includes modifications to the default values used, as well as the exclusion of some items in the benchmark which are considered unnecessary for a fictional environment, is as follows:
---
- hosts: localhost
connection: local
gather_facts: true
become: yes
vars:
cis_level_1_exclusions:
- 5.4.4
- 3.4.2
- 3.4.3
- 6.2.13
cis_pass_max_days: 45
cis_umask_default: 002
roles:
- anthcourtney.cis-amazon-linux
Note that the use of become: yes
is required as 99% of tasks require privileged access to execute.
See defaults/main.yml
for variables which can be overriden according to preference.
Tags (and combinations thereof) can be used to run a particular level of the CIS standard, a section, or an individual recommendation. For example:
ansible-playbook playbook.yml -t level-1
ansible-playbook playbook.yml -t section-3
ansible-playbook playbook.yml -t 1.3.1,2.2.10
ansible-playbook playbook.yml -t scored
At present, only the Level 1 items of the benchmark are implemented. Level 2 items will be added as time permits.
The following checks have not been implemented:
This role is compatible with the following versions of ansible:
This role has not been tested against any other versions of ansible.
The following testing processes are applied by the developer of this role:
make syntax
.ansible-review
is run against the role and any warnings which are deemed appropriate are remediated. See make review
.make test
.The following tests have been flagged but are not yet implemented:
mvbcoding/awslinux
image, using the ansible provisioner.Please run make lint
to make sure we are following ansible standards.
MIT.
This role was developed by Anth Courtney.
All feedback, issues and PRs are encouraged and appreciated.