: Set up IoT Security and XSOAR for Tanium Integration
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Set up IoT Security and XSOAR for Tanium Integration

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Set up IoT Security and XSOAR for Tanium Integration

Set up IoT Security and Cortex XSOAR to integrate with Tanium.
To set up IoT Security to integrate through Cortex XSOAR with Tanium, configure XSOAR with a Tanium integration instance and a job to import device details and vulnerabilities. You can set the job to run at regular intervals or on demand. The configuration requires the following information from Tanium:
  • Domain URL of a cloud-hosted Tanium server, or an FQDN or IP address of an on-premises Tanium server
  • Username and password of the user account that XSOAR uses when connecting to the Tanium API
To set up IoT Security to integrate through a cloud-hosted Cortex XSOAR instance with an on-premises Tanium server, you must also add a Cortex XSOAR engine to your network.

Cortex XSOAR Engine Installation

An on-premises XSOAR engine facilitates communications between the Cortex XSOAR cloud and an on-premises Tanium server. Although it's possible to install an Cortex XSOAR engine on machines running Windows, macOS, and Linux operating systems, only an engine on a Linux machine supports IoT Security integrations. For more information about operating system and hardware requirements for Cortex XSOAR, see the Administrator's Guide.
We recommend downloading the Cortex XSOAR engine using the shell installer script and installing it on a Linux machine. This simplifies the deployment by automatically installing all required dependencies and also enables remote engine upgrades.
When placing the XSOAR engine on your network, make sure it can form HTTPS connections to your on-premises Tanium server. By default, HTTPS uses TCP port 443.
The on-premises firewall must allow the Cortex XSOAR engine to form HTTPS connections on TCP port 443 to the Cortex cloud at https://<your-domain>.iot.demisto.live/. You can see the URL of your Cortex XSOAR instance when you log in to the IoT Security portal and click Integrations and then click Launch Cortex XSOAR. It’s visible in the address bar of the web page displaying the Cortex XSOAR interface.
To create an Cortex XSOAR engine, access the Cortex XSOAR interface (from the IoT Security portal, click Integrations and then click Launch Cortex XSOAR). In the Cortex XSOAR UI, click SettingsEngines+ Create New Engine. Choose Shell as the type.
For Cortex XSOAR engine installation instructions, see Engine Installation.
For help troubleshooting Cortex XSOAR engines, including installations, upgrades, connectivity, and permissions, see Troubleshoot Engines and Troubleshoot Integrations Running on Engines.

Configure IoT Security and Cortex XSOAR

  1. Log in to IoT Security and from there access Tanium settings in Cortex XSOAR.
    1. Log in to IoT Security and then click Integrations.
    2. IoT Security uses Cortex XSOAR to integrate with Tanium, and the settings you must configure to integrate with it are in the XSOAR interface. To access these settings, click Launch Cortex XSOAR.
      The Cortex XSOAR interface opens in a new browser window.
    3. Click Settings in the left navigation menu, search for tanium to locate it among other instances.
  2. Configure the Tanium integration instance.
    1. Click Add instance to open the settings panel.
    2. Enter the following settings:
      Name: Use the default name of the instance or enter a new one.
      Remember the instance name because you are going to use it again when creating a job that Cortex XSOAR will run to gather data from the Tanium instance specified in this integration instance.
      Domain URL: Enter the domain URL of a cloud-hosted Tanium instance or static IP address of an on-premises Tanium server. Note that you can include or omit https:// from the URL. Both of these formats are acceptable:
      • https://<customername>-api.cloud.tanium.com
      • <customername>-api.cloud.tanium.com
      Username: Type the name of the user account that you previously created for the XSOAR engine to use when connecting to the Tanium API.
      Password: Type the password associated with the user account.
      Use single engine: When using a cloud-based XSOAR instance and an on-premises Tanium server, choose the XSOAR engine that you want to communicate with the Tanium server.
    3. When finished, click Run test or Test.
      If the test is successful, a Success message appears. If not, check that the settings were entered correctly and then test the configuration again.
    4. After the test succeeds, click Save & exit to save your changes and close the settings panel.
  3. To integrate with other Tanium servers, repeat the previous steps to add more integration instances.
  4. Create a job for XSOAR to query Tanium for device vulnerabilities and import them to IoT Security.
    IoT Security only imports vulnerabilities for devices that are already in its database and whose MAC address matches that Tanium returns. If Tanium returns vulnerabilities for MAC addresses that aren’t in the IoT Security database, they’re ignored and dropped.
    1. Copy the name of the instance you just created, click Jobs near the bottom of the left navigation menu and then click New Job at the top of the page.
    2. In the New Job panel that appears, enter the following and leave the other settings at their default values:
      Recurring: Select this if you want to periodically import vulnerabilities from Tanium. Clear it if you want to import them on demand.
      Every: If you select Recurring, enter a number and set the interval value (Minutes, Hours, Days, or Weeks) and select the days on which to run the job. (If you don’t select specific days, then the job will run everyday by default.) This determines how often XSOAR queries Tanium for device vulnerabilities. For example, every day at 2:00 AM.
      Name: Enter a name for the job.
      Playbook: Choose Import Tanium Vulnerabilities to PANW IoT cloud.
      Integration Instance Name: Paste the instance name you copied a few moments ago.
      Import vulnerabilities by CVE severity levels: Choose one or more severity levels to determine which vulnerabilities to import: Critical, High, Medium, Low, or Unscored (that is, there is no severity score). Choosing all five severities is the same as not choosing any.
      The severity levels are based on Common Vulnerability Scoring System version 3 (CVSSv3).
    3. Click Create new job.
  5. Enable the job and run it.
    1. Check the Job Status for the job you created. If it’s Disabled, select its check box and then click Enable.
    2. After you enable it, keep the check box selected and click Run now. The Run Status changes from Idle to Running.
      If you selected Recurring, XSOAR queries Tanium for device vulnerabilities at the defined interval and forwards imported information to IoT Security.
      If you cleared Recurring, XSOAR immediately queries Tanium and forwards imported device vulnerabilities to IoT Security.
  6. If you created more integration instances for multiple on-premises Tanium servers, add more jobs as necessary.
    An integration instance can be in one of the following four states, which IoT Security displays in the Status column on the Integrations page:
    • Disabled means that either the integration was configured but intentionally disabled or it was never configured and a job that references it is enabled and running.
    • Error means that the integration was configured and enabled but is not functioning properly, possibly due to a configuration error or network condition.
    • Inactive means that the integration was configured and enabled but no job has run for at least the past 60 minutes.
    • Active means that the integration was configured and enabled and is functioning properly.
    When you see that the status of an integration instance is Active, its setup is complete.