[openstack-dev] [openstack-ansible] Security hardening

Matthew Thode prometheanfire at gentoo.org
Thu Sep 10 16:22:24 UTC 2015


On 09/10/2015 09:54 AM, Major Hayden wrote:
> Hey there,
> 
> I've been looking for some ways to harden the systems that are deployed by os-ansible-deployment (soon to be openstack-ansible?) and I've been using the Center for Internet Security (CIS)[1] benchmarks as a potential pathway for that.  There are benchmarks available for various operating systems and applications there.
> 
> Many of the items shown there fall into a few different categories:
> 
>   1) things OSAD should configure
>   2) things deployers should configure
>   3) things nobody should configure (they break the deployment, for example)
> 
> #3 is often quite obvious, but #1 and #2 are a bit more nebulous.  For example, I opened a ticket[2] about getting auditd installed by default with openstack-ansible.  My gut says that many deployers could use auditd since it collects denials from AppArmor and that can help with troubleshooting broken policies.
> 
> Also, I opened another ticket[3] for compressing all logs by default.  This affects availability (part of the information security CIA triad[4]) in a fairly critical way in the long term.
> 
> My question is this: How should I go about determining which security changes should go upstream and which should go into documentation as things deployers should do locally?
> 
> 
> [1] https://benchmarks.cisecurity.org/
> [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-ansible/+bug/1491915
> [3] https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-ansible/+bug/1493981
> [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_security#Key_concepts
> 
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> Major Hayden
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Sane defaults can't be used?  The two bugs you listed look fine to me as
default things to do.

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Matthew Thode (prometheanfire)

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