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Hardening Role

Apply security hardening to enterprise infrastructure nodes following CIS benchmarks.

Features

  • CIS Compliance: Support for CIS hardening levels 1 and 2
  • SSH Hardening: Disable root login, password auth, set auth limits
  • Firewall Configuration: UFW with configurable rules
  • Service Cleanup: Disable unnecessary services and remove insecure packages
  • Handlers: SSH restarts via handlers

Role Variables

See defaults/main.yml for all available variables.

Key Variables

  • cis_level: CIS hardening level (1 or 2)
  • disable_root_login: Disable root SSH login (default: true)
  • secure_ssh_config: Apply SSH security hardening (default: true)
  • firewall_policy: Firewall default policy (default: deny)
  • ssh_max_auth_tries: Maximum SSH authentication attempts (default: 3)
  • ssh_client_alive_interval: SSH client alive interval in seconds (default: 300)
  • ssh_allowed_networks: Networks allowed SSH access from

SSH Allowed Networks

Default trusted networks:

  • 10.0.0.0/8 (Private Class A)
  • 172.16.0.0/12 (Private Class B)
  • 192.168.0.0/16 (Private Class C)

Usage

- role: hardening
  vars:
    cis_level: 1
    disable_root_login: true
    ssh_allowed_networks:
      - 10.0.0.0/8
      - 203.0.113.0/24

SSH Configuration Changes

  • Root login disabled
  • Password authentication disabled
  • Maximum auth tries: 3
  • Empty passwords prohibited
  • Client alive interval: 300 seconds
  • Client alive count max: 2

Tags

  • hardening: All hardening tasks
  • security: Security-related tasks