/os-harderning-scripts

Operating System Hardening Scripts

Primary LanguageShellMIT LicenseMIT

OS Hardening Scripts

This repository contains a collection of scripts that will help to harden operating system baseline configuration supported by Cloudneeti.

Supported Benchmark

  • CIS Microsoft Windows Server 2019 benchmark v1.0.0
  • CIS Microsoft Windows Server 2016 benchmark v1.0.0
  • CIS Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 benchmark v1.0.0
  • CIS RHEL 7 benchmark v2.2.0
  • CIS CentOS 7 benchmark v2.2.0
  • CIS Ubuntu 18.04 benchmark v1.0.0

Pre-requisites

For Windows Server

  • Windows PowerShell version 5 and above

    1. To check PowerShell version type "$PSVersionTable.PSVersion" in PowerShell and you will find PowerShell version,
    2. To Install PowerShell follow link https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/setup/installing-windows-powershell?view=powershell-6
  • Below DSC modules should be installed

    1. AuditPolicyDsc
    2. SecurityPolicyDsc
    3. NetworkingDsc
    4. PSDesiredStateConfiguration

    To check module present or not

    Get-InstalledModule -Name <ModuleName>

    Install the required modules by executing the below command

    Install-Module -Name <ModuleName>

How to Use

For Windows Servers

Example 1: CIS Benchmark Windows Server 2016 v1.0.0

  1. Login to VM using RDP

  2. Download/copy PowerShell script to VM

  3. Run PowerShell script to compile DSC

    .\CIS_Benchmark_WindowsServer2016_v100.ps1

    Script will generate MOF files in the directory.

  4. Run below command to apply baseline configuration

    Start-DscConfiguration -Path .\CIS_Benchmark_WindowsServer2016_v1_0_0  -Force -Verbose -Wait

For Linux machines

Example 1: CIS CentOS Linux7 Benchmark v2.2.0

  1. Login to VM/EC2 Instance using SSH

  2. Switch user(su) to root.

  3. Download/copy bash script to VM/EC2 Instance

  4. Run bash script to apply baseline configuration

    bash CIS_CentOS_Linux7_Benchmark_v2_2_0_Remediation.sh

Caution

The scripts are designed to harden the operating system baseline configurations, Please test it on the test/staging system before applying to the production system.

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