Current state of the scripts are: "This project is 'As is" please be free to give me any feedback
This CIS Script is build to report and remediate based on the your organisation score.
While working with CIS Benchmarks (Remediation Scripts and/or Configuration Profiles) I felt this could be done better, faster and easier. The guys from the macOS Security Compliance Project did an amazing job automating the guidance and configuration profiles.
I created custom rules set for CIS Benchmark to integrate with the macOS Security Compliance Project and published CIS-macOS-Security.
While working with CIS Benchmark, Script and Configuration Profile, I had the feeling there was missing an overview with complete reporting, and therefore built a read-only CIS-Reporting script you can find here
The project ended up with separate tools, with the creation of Documentation, Configuration Profiles and Reporting. However, I still needed an extra script for remediation.
To resolve this I combined the reporting script with remediation with the option to enable remediation or not.
For easy maintaining, the CIS-Script is built in fragments. There is a Header.sh, Footer.sh, Version.sh and a folder OrgScore filled with separate OrgScore*.sh. This way it's easier to focus on a specific rule or subset of rules.
To assemble all the fragments together in a script you can use standalone or via an MDM server (like Jamf Pro), you can use the Assemble.sh script. After assembling the Remediation Script, standalone it will perform a read-only check and creates a full report.
$ sudo ./CISBenchmarkScript.shLocation of the report /Library/Security/Reports/
If you use the script via an MDM you can set the script to create a short or full report, and enable or disable remediation.
The CIS-Script is tested on macOS Big Sur 11.
- Test OrgScore*.sh
- Assembled Remediation Script
- Upload CIS Benchmark Settings Configuration Profile
- Configure CIS Configuration Profiles.
- Extension Attributes Jamf Pro Server
For adjustments, you can test every OrgScore separately.
$ cd /Git/CIS-Script/Fragments/OrgScores
$ sudo ./OrgScore*.shThe Assemble.sh will default build the full Remediation Script CISBenchmarkScript.sh.
$ ./Assemble.shIf you want you can create a separate script by running the script with argument
$ ./Assemble.sh -sYou can find the build in ./Build/ directory
Upload this into your MDM Server. With Jamf Pro you can create a policy:
- Trigger check-in
- Frequency once a day
- add the Script
- Include inventory update (to report result within Extension Attributes).
- Scope to the target devices
If you want you can create a JSON file for Jamf Pro by running the script with the argument
$ ./Assemble.sh -jYou can find the build in ./Build/ directory
Configure a Configuration Profile, see example, and if you are using Jamf Pro, you can use the Jamf Pro Custom Schema.json to configure the reporting, remediation and scoring. Scope the CIS Benchmark Settings Profile to the target devices.
Setup the needed Configuration Profiles for the CIS Benchmarks rules you scoring on with your MDM server or generate them with the CIS-macOS-Security integrated with the macOS Security Compliance Project. Scope to the target devices.
Extension Attributes Jamf Pro Server
Upload the Extension Attributes into your Jamf Pro Server.
It is possible to upload the report to Jamf so that you can read it without requiring access to the computer. To do so, perform the following steps:
- Create an account used for the script
- Grant the account the following privileges:
- Jamf Pro Server Objects > Computers: Create, Read, Update
- Jamf Pro Server Objects > File Attachments: Create, Update, Delete
- Upload the script /Git/CIS-Script/Jamf/Upload_CISBenchmarkReport.sh as a script in Jamf
- Add this as a script to your existing CIS policy and use the priority "After" so that it runs second
- Ensure you add the credentials in Variable 4 using this to create the encoded value:
$ printf "username:password" | iconv -t ISO-8859-1 | base64 -i -