The STIGs provide more application-specific secure configuration suggestions. However, the STIG security guides are in XML format. To view the STIGs, you needs to download a STIG Viewer, which is a Java JAR. Follow the following steps to view the Ubuntu STIG:
- Download the STIG Viewer from the URL. https://iase.disa.mil/stigs/pages/stig-viewing-guidance.aspx
- Unzip the file and click the STIGViewer-2.8.jar to open the viewer
- Download the Ubuntu STIG from the https://iase.disa.mil/stigs/os/unix-linux/Pages/index.aspx
- Unzip to get the file, U_Canonical_Ubuntu_16-04_LTS_STIG_V1R1_Manual-xccdf.xml
- Use the STIG Viewer to load the XML by the menu File | Import STIG
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