Supported compliance profiles

There are several profiles available as part of the Compliance Operator (CO) installation.

The Compliance Operator might report incorrect results on managed platforms, such as OpenShift Dedicated, Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS, and Azure Red Hat OpenShift. For more information, see the Red Hat Knowledgebase Solution #6983418.

Compliance profiles

The Compliance Operator provides the following compliance profiles:

Table 1. Supported compliance profiles
ProfileProfile titleCompliance Operator versionIndustry compliance benchmarkSupported architectures

ocp4-cis

CIS Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 Benchmark

0.1.39+

CIS Benchmarks ™ [1]

x86_64 ppc64le s390x

ocp4-cis-node

CIS Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 Benchmark

0.1.39+

CIS Benchmarks ™ [1]

x86_64 ppc64le s390x

ocp4-e8

Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) Essential Eight

0.1.39+

ACSC Hardening Linux Workstations and Servers

x86_64

ocp4-moderate

NIST 800-53 Moderate-Impact Baseline for Red Hat OpenShift - Platform level

0.1.39+

NIST SP-800-53 Release Search

x86_64

rhcos4-e8

Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) Essential Eight

0.1.39+

ACSC Hardening Linux Workstations and Servers

x86_64

rhcos4-moderate

NIST 800-53 Moderate-Impact Baseline for Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS

0.1.39+

NIST SP-800-53 Release Search

x86_64

ocp4-moderate-node

NIST 800-53 Moderate-Impact Baseline for Red Hat OpenShift - Node level

0.1.44+

NIST SP-800-53 Release Search

x86_64

ocp4-nerc-cip

North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) cybersecurity standards profile for the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform - Platform level

0.1.44+

NERC CIP Standards

x86_64

ocp4-nerc-cip-node

North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) cybersecurity standards profile for the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform - Node level

0.1.44+

NERC CIP Standards

x86_64

rhcos4-nerc-cip

North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) cybersecurity standards profile for Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS

0.1.44+

NERC CIP Standards

x86_64

ocp4-pci-dss

PCI-DSS v3.2.1 Control Baseline for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4

0.1.47+

PCI Security Standards ® Council Document Library

x86_64 ppc64le

ocp4-pci-dss-node

PCI-DSS v3.2.1 Control Baseline for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4

0.1.47+

PCI Security Standards ® Council Document Library

x86_64 ppc64le

ocp4-high

NIST 800-53 High-Impact Baseline for Red Hat OpenShift - Platform level

0.1.52+

NIST SP-800-53 Release Search

x86_64

ocp4-high-node

NIST 800-53 High-Impact Baseline for Red Hat OpenShift - Node level

0.1.52+

NIST SP-800-53 Release Search

x86_64

rhcos4-high

NIST 800-53 High-Impact Baseline for Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS

0.1.52+

NIST SP-800-53 Release Search

x86_64

Additional resources

  • For more information about viewing the compliance profiles available in your system, see Compliance Operator profiles in Understanding the Compliance Operator.

1. To locate the CIS RedHat OpenShift Container Platform v4 Benchmark, go to CIS Benchmarks and type Kubernetes in the search box. Click on Kubernetes and then Download Latest CIS Benchmark, where you can then register to download the benchmark.