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Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) Essential Eight

Ansible Role for Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) Essential Eight

Profile Description:
This profile contains configuration checks for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
that align to the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) Essential Eight.
A copy of the Essential Eight in Linux Environments guide can be found at the
ACSC website:
https://www.cyber.gov.au/acsc/view-all-content/publications/hardening-linux-workstations-and-servers

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 in this role, see the ComplianceAsCode project at https://github.com/ComplianceAsCode/content

Requirements

  • Ansible version 2.9 or higher

Role Variables

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

Dependencies

N/A

Example Role Usage

Run ansible-galaxy install RedHatOfficial.rhel9_e8 to download and install the role. Then, you can use the following playbook snippet to run the Ansible role:

- hosts: all
  roles:
     - { role: RedHatOfficial.rhel9_e8 }

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.