Audit & Hardening

QROS runs real CIS benchmark audits through Ansible + the ansible-lockdown galaxy roles, and deploys hardening playbooks for IPS (HAProxy WAF), IDS (Suricata+Snort), and monitoring (OpenSearch/Grafana). Every audit runs via real SSH against the target host — concrete cybersecurity hardening, not toy templates.

QROS · Audit · RHEL 9ansible

CISNIST-STIGPCI-DSS

Sections (group selection)

Section 1 — Initial setup84

Section 2 — Services61

Section 5 — Access72

Section 6 — Network55

63score

471 controls · 627–1241 real tasks per OS

QROS · Firewall · IPS (HAProxy)ips.qros.dev

IPS features

Anti-Tor

Anti-Proxy/VPN

Anti-Bots

Block IDS (Suricata)

Anti-Scan

frontend fe_web bind :443 ssl crt /etc/haproxy/site.pem alpn h2 acl host_app req.ssl_sni -i app.banco.com use_backend be_app if host_app

CIS benchmark audits

QROS supports three benchmark families:

CIS (Center for Internet Security) — complete + repair modes for Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL, Windows
STIG (Security Technical Implementation Guide, NIST 800-53) — for RHEL, Ubuntu, Windows
PCI-DSS — via OpenSCAP for RHEL

Each audit runs through Ansible + the ansible-lockdown galaxy roles, executing real SSH commands against the target. The audit produces a per-control findings report with pass/fail counts and a QROS-branded PDF.

Hardening playbooks

IPS (HAProxy WAF) — generates HAProxy frontends/backends + IPS rules (modsecurity, OWASP CRS)
IDS (Suricata + Snort) — deploys intrusion detection with Suricata and Snort rules
Monitoring (OpenSearch + Grafana) — deploys log monitoring and dashboards

What an audit report looks like in QROS

After running a CIS audit against a target host, QROS shows the per-control findings with pass/fail counts and generates a PDF:

CIS Debian 12 — audit

Score: 71/100

278

Pass

257

Fail

Skipped

1.1.1.1 Ensure mounting of cramfs filesystems is disabled Fail

1.1.1.2 Ensure mounting of freevxfs filesystems is disabled Pass

5.4.2.4 Ensure root password is set Pass

PDF report: qros-audit-a1b2c3d4.pdf (115 KB) · 403 findings total

FAQ

What benchmarks does QROS support?

QROS supports CIS (Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL, Windows), STIG (RHEL, Ubuntu, Windows), and PCI-DSS (RHEL via OpenSCAP). Each audit runs through Ansible + the ansible-lockdown galaxy roles.

How do audits work?

Each audit runs through Ansible over real SSH against the target host. The ansible-lockdown role executes benchmark checks, and QROS parses the results into per-control findings with pass/fail counts and a PDF report.

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