Endpoint Posture Collection Profile
draft-ietf-sacm-epcp-01
SACM D. Haynes
Internet-Draft The MITRE Corporation
Intended status: Standards Track J. Fitzgerald-McKay
Expires: August 28, 2020 Department of Defense
February 25, 2020
Endpoint Posture Collection Profile
draft-ietf-sacm-epcp-01
Abstract
This document specifies the Endpoint Posture Collection Profile,
which describes the requirements for the application of IETF, TNC,
and ISO/IEC data models, protocols, and interfaces to support the on-
going collection and communication of endpoint posture to a
centralized server where it can be stored and made available to other
tools.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.1. Conventions Used in This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2. Endpoint Posture Collection Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.1. Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.1.1. Endpoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.1.1.1. Posture Collection Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.1.2. Posture Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.1.2.1. Posture Collection Manager . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.1.3. Repository . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.1.4. Evaluator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.1.5. Orchestrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.1.6. Application Programming Interface . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.2. Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.2.1. Provisioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.2.2. Discovery and Validation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.2.3. Event-Driven Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.2.4. Querying the Endpoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.2.5. Data Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.2.6. Data Sharing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3. IETF NEA EPCP Implementation for Traditional Endpoints . . . 11
3.1. Endpoint Provisioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.2. Endpoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.2.1. Posture Collector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3.2.2. Posture Broker Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3.2.3. Posture Transport Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3.3. Posture Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3.3.1. Posture Validator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3.3.2. Posture Broker Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3.3.3. Posture Transport Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3.4. Repository . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
3.5. IETF SACM Software Asset Management Extension to the IETF
NEA EPCP Implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
3.5.1. Endpoint Pre-Provisioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
3.5.2. SWID Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
3.5.3. SWID Posture Collectors and Posture Validators . . . 16
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