This work deals with security compliance of computer systems, namely operating systems, applications and system services. Concept of security policies, their evaluation and their enforcement is described. Security compliance automation and the SCAP standard are presented. OpenSCAP project, which is used as an SCAP scanner, is described together with its tools and its usage. An idea to add support of Microsoft Windows within OpenSCAP, which was previously unsupported, is presented. The core part of the thesis is to identify necessary changes of OpenSCAP and to design an extension of this project. All these modifications are implemented. The solution is demonstrated on security policies for Windows. The solution is evaluated and further improvements are discussed.
Automated Security Compliance Scanning of MS Windows Operating System Using OpenSCAP Project
University
Faculty of Information Technology
Date of Completion
2017
Resources
Leader
Smrčka Aleš
Consultant
Vrabec Peter
Student
Černý Jan