Unclassified Information in Non-federal Information Systems and Organizations (NIST 800-171)

Ansible Role for Unclassified Information in Non-federal Information Systems and Organizations (NIST 800-171)

Profile Description:
From NIST 800-171, Section 2.2:
Security requirements for protecting the confidentiality of CUI in nonfederal
information systems and organizations have a well-defined structure that
consists of:

(i) a basic security requirements section;
(ii) a derived security requirements section.

The basic security requirements are obtained from FIPS Publication 200, which
provides the high-level and fundamental security requirements for federal
information and information systems. The derived security requirements, which
supplement the basic security requirements, are taken from the security controls
in NIST Special Publication 800-53.

This profile configures Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 to the NIST Special
Publication 800-53 controls identified for securing Controlled Unclassified
Information (CUI)."

The tasks that are used in this role are generated using OpenSCAP. See the OpenSCAP project for more details on Ansible playbook generation at https://github.com/OpenSCAP/openscap

To submit a fix or enhancement for an Ansible task that is failing or missing, see the ComplianceAsCode project at https://github.com/ComplianceAsCode/content

Requirements

• Ansible version 2.5 or higher

Role Variables

To customize the role to your liking, check out the list of variables.

Dependencies

N/A

Example Playbook

Run ansible-galaxy install RedHatOfficial.rhel8_cui to download and install the role. Then, you can use the following playbook snippet to run the Ansible role:

- hosts: all
  roles:
     - { role: RedHatOfficial.rhel8_cui }

Next, check the playbook using (on the localhost) the following example:

ansible-playbook -i "localhost," -c local --check playbook.yml

To deploy it, use (this may change configuration of your local machine!):

ansible-playbook -i "localhost," -c local playbook.yml

License

BSD-3-Clause

Author Information

This Ansible remediation role has been generated from the body of security policies developed by the ComplianceAsCode project. Please see https://github.com/complianceascode/content/blob/master/Contributors.md for an updated list of authors and contributors.