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Incident Response requirements

Review the requirements before you install and use Incident Response.

Tanium dependencies

Component	Requirement
Platform	Version 6.5 or later.
Tanium Client	All Tanium Client versions are supported.
License	For information about licensing Incident Response, contact your Technical Account Manager (TAM). The license for Incident Response includes the following solutions: Tanium Incident Response Tanium IR Gatherer (IR Gatherer) Tanium Quarantine (Quarantine) Tanium Live Response (Live Response) Tanium Index (Index) Windows Security Patch Management (for more information, see Tanium Knowledge Base)
Tanium™ Trace	Version 2.3.2.0004 or later is required for real-time events on Linux endpoints with Tanium Index 2.0.0 or later.

Third-party software requirements

For Tanium Incident Response, the required third-party software is installed automatically.

However, the IR Gatherer solution has third-party software requirements that are not installed automatically. The related documentation includes instructions to download the software and include it in packages that are distributed to the endpoints.

KnockKnock (optional)
OSX Collector (optional)

Endpoint hardware and software requirements

Disk space

If a solution is not listed, the required disk space is minimal.

IR Solution	Disk Space
Index	1 GB free space

Supported endpoint operating systems

See the documentation for the IR solution for specific version numbers.

IR solution	Windows	Mac	Linux
Incident Response	X	X	X
IR Gatherer	X	X	X
Copy tools	X	X	X
Quarantine	X	X	X
Index	X	X	X
Live Response	X

Host and network security requirements

Specific ports and processes are needed to run Incident Response.

Ports

The following ports are required for IR communication.

IR Solution	Port	Direction	Purpose
IR Gatherer	443, 22, 21, or 445	Outbound	Outbound connections over ports depending on how the collected data is being transferred.
Live Response	443 (S3), 22 (SFTP/SCP), or 445 (SMB)	Outbound	Outbound connections over ports depending on how the collected data is being transferred.

Security exclusions

If security software is in use in the environment to monitor and block unknown host system processes, your security administrator must create exclusions to allow the Tanium processes to run without interference.

Target Device	Process
Windows x86	<Tanium Client>\Tools\EPI\TaniumExecWrapper.exe
	<Tanium Client>\Tools\IR\TaniumExecWrapper.exe
	<Tanium Client>\Tools\IR\TanFileInfo.exe
	<Tanium Client>\Tools\IR\TaniumHandle.exe
	<Tanium Client>\Tools\IR\TanListModules.exe
	<Tanium Client>\Tools\EPI\TaniumEndpointIndex.exe
	<Tanium Client>\Tools\IR\PowerForensics\PowerForensics.dll
	<Tanium Client>\Downloads\Action_nnn\Winpmem_3.1.rc10.exe ¹
Windows x64	<Tanium Client>\Tools\EPI\TaniumExecWrapper.exe
	<Tanium Client>\Tools\IR\TaniumExecWrapper.exe
	<Tanium Client>\Tools\IR\TanFileInfo.exe
	<Tanium Client>\Tools\IR\TaniumHandle.exe
	<Tanium Client>\Tools\IR\TanListModules.exe
	<Tanium Client>\Tools\EPI\TaniumEndpointIndex.exe
	<Tanium Client>\Tools\IR\PowerForensics\PowerForensics.dll
	<Tanium Client>\Downloads\Action_nnn\Winpmem_3.1.rc10.exe ¹
Mac OS	<Tanium Client>/Tools/EPI/TaniumExecWrapper
	<Tanium Client>/Tools/IR/TaniumExecWrapper
	<Tanium Client>/Tools/EPI/TaniumEndpointIndex
	<Tanium Client>/Downloads/Action_nnn/surge-collect¹,²
	<Tanium Client>/Downloads/Action_nnn/surge.dat¹,²
	<Tanium Client>/Downloads/Action_nnn/osxpmem.app/osxpmem¹
Linux x86	<Tanium Client>/Tools/EPI/TaniumExecWrapper
	<Tanium Client>/Tools/IR/TaniumExecWrapper
	<Tanium Client>/Tools/EPI/TaniumEndpointIndex
	<Tanium Client>/Downloads/Action_nnn/surge-collect¹,²
	<Tanium Client>/Downloads/Action_nnn/surge.dat¹,²
	<Tanium Client>/Downloads/Action_nnn/linpmem-<version>.bin¹
Linux x64	<Tanium Client>/Tools/EPI/TaniumExecWrapper
	<Tanium Client>/Tools/IR/TaniumExecWrapper
	<Tanium Client>/Tools/EPI/TaniumEndpointIndex
	<Tanium Client>/Downloads/Action_nnn/surge-collect¹,²
	<Tanium Client>/Downloads/Action_nnn/surge.dat¹,²
	<Tanium Client>/Downloads/Action_nnn/linpmem-<version>.bin¹

¹ = Where nnn corresponds to the action ID.

² = Exception is required if Volexity Surge is used for memory collection.

Internet URLs

If security software is deployed in the environment to monitor and block unknown URLs, your security administrator must whitelist the following URL:

content.tanium.com

User role requirements

Tanium 6.5 and 7.0

For Tanium Platform version 6.5 and 7.0, the following user roles are required:

Administrator - Incident Response and all solutions
Content administrator - Quarantine

Tanium 7.1 and later

In 7.1.314.3071 and later, you can use role-based access control (RBAC) permissions to restrict access to IR solution content sets. If a solution is not listed below, RBAC does not apply and the roles are the same as 7.0.

For more information, see the Tanium Core Platform User Guide: Users and user groups.

Table 1: Incident Response Advanced User Role Privileges
Permission	Content Set for Permission	Incident Response Administrator	Incident Response User	Incident Response Read Only User
Ask Dynamic Questions		*	*	*
Read Action	Incident Response
Read Package	Incident Response	*
Read Saved Question	Incident Response	*
Read Sensor	Incident Response	*
Write Action	Incident Response
Write Action for Saved Questions	Incident Response
Write Package	Incident Response
Write Saved Question	Incident Response
Write Sensor	Incident Response

‡ To install IR solutions, you must have the reserved role of Administrator.

* Requires permissions for the Interact module to ask questions, see results, and drill-down to endpoints.

Table 2: Tanium 7.1 Index Advanced User Role Privileges
Permission	Content Set for Permission	Index Administrator	Index User	Index Read Only User
Ask Dynamic Questions		*	*	*
Read Action	Index
Read Package	Index	*
Read Saved Question	Index	*	*
Read Sensor	Index	*	*
Write Action	Index
Write Action for Saved Questions	Index
Write Package	Index
Write Saved Question	Index
Write Sensor	Index

‡ To install IR solutions, you must have the reserved role of Administrator.

* Requires permissions for the Interact module to ask questions, see results, and drill-down to endpoints.

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