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CIS CAT Assessor scan

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Description

The playbook copies the CIS CAT Assessor zip file to the target, installs it, creates a report folder, runs the assessor to generate a JSON report, fetches the most recent JSON report, cleans up old reports, and uploads the report to Kibana.
Works on both Windows and Linux servers.

Credentials

  • sys_ansible_windows or sys_ansible_local

Input

Variable Description
target FQDN name of the server or name of the server group to scan
latest Version of the CIS CAT Assessor software
benchmark_windows_2016 Name of the benchmark file to use for Windows 2016
benchmark_windows_2019 Name of the benchmark file to use for Windows 2019
benchmark_windows_2022 Name of the benchmark file to use for Windows 2022
benchmark_rhel8 Name of the benchmark file to use for RHEL 8
benchmark_rhel9 Name of the benchmark file to use for RHEL 9

Output

Sends json data to Elastic

Dependencies