{"@type": "dcat:Dataset", "accessLevel": "public", "accrualPeriodicity": "irregular", "bureauCode": ["006:55"], "contactPoint": {"fn": "Bob Gendler", "hasEmail": "mailto:macadmin@nist.gov"}, "description": "The macOS security compliance project is an open source effort to provide a programmatic approach to generating security guidance. This project can be used to create customized security baselines of technical security controls by leveraging a library of atomic actions which are mapped to compliance requirements in existing security guides or used to develop customized guidance. Through the use of a library of atomic actions that enhance security, and mapping them back to existing guides and policies, a single project can support multiple security guides and regulated industry policies while also allowing for documentation and QA to be uniformly managed through a single effort. This approach simplifies, and radically accelerates, the updating of annual security guidance through a unification and standardization of effort.Rationale for this project:Normalize and accelerate annual adoption of OS/Hardware by having guidance available to meet the needs of new operating systems on releaseReduce worldwide effort in creating annual guidance by unifying and consolidating compliance efforts into a single projectDevelop a methodology to foster collaboration between baseline authors, reducing overhead and redundancyUnify approach in setting controlsProvide MDM/EMM/security/audit vendors and Apple insight into customer hardening needsImportant note: This project is a programmatic approach to security policy and can produce output content to be used IN CONJUNCTION with management and security tools to achieve compliance.", "identifier": "ark:/88434/mds2-2246", "issued": "2020-06-15", "keyword": ["macOS", "mac", "security", "compliance", "SCAP", "baseline", "FISMA", "STIG", "OVAL", "XCCDF"], "landingPage": "https://data.nist.gov/od/id/mds2-2246", "language": ["en"], "license": "https://github.com/usnistgov/macos_security/blob/master/LICENSE.md", "modified": "2020-06-05 00:00:00", "programCode": ["006:052"], "publisher": {"@type": "org:Organization", "name": "National Institute of Standards and Technology"}, "references": ["https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.800-53r4", "https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.800-70r4", "https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.800-219"], "theme": ["Information Technology:Cybersecurity"], "title": "macOS Security Compliance Project"}