Major Hayden bfcf6c7423 Initial import of openstack-ansible-security role
This role contains around 150 controls from the 270+ controls that exist
in the RHEL 6 STIG. New controls are still being added.

Implements: blueprint security-hardening

Change-Id: I0578f86bf42d55242bc72b97b40a5935a3cb18d6
2015-10-07 07:27:39 -05:00

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Although Red Hat kernels provide ExecShield, Ubuntu provides Non-Executable
Memory (NX) support and it is enabled by default. There's not an option
to enable or disable it.
For more information, refer to `Ubuntu's security feature documentation on
NX`_.
.. _Ubuntu's security feature documentation on NX: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Features#nx