Setting up Cloud Security on Linux

Use the following instructions to enable Misconfigurations, Threat Detection, and Vulnerability Management.

Collecting events using Cloud Security Management will affect your billing. For more information, see Datadog Pricing.

Prerequisites

  • Datadog Agent version 7.46 or later.

Installation

For a package-based deployment, install the Datadog package with your package manager, and then update the datadog.yaml, security-agent.yaml, and system-probe.yaml files.

/etc/datadog-agent/datadog.yaml

remote_configuration:
  ## @param enabled - boolean - optional - default: false
  ## Set to true to enable remote configuration.
  enabled: true

runtime_security_config:
  ## @param enabled - boolean - optional - default: false
  ## Set to true to enable Threat Detection
  enabled: true

compliance_config:
  ## @param enabled - boolean - optional - default: false
  ## Set to true to enable CIS benchmarks for Misconfigurations.
  #
  enabled: true
  host_benchmarks:
    enabled: true

# Vulnerabilities are evaluated and scanned against your containers and hosts every hour.
sbom:
  enabled: true
  # Set to true to enable Container Vulnerability Management
  container_image:
    enabled: true
  # Set to true to enable Host Vulnerability Management  
  host:
    enabled: true

/etc/datadog-agent/security-agent.yaml

runtime_security_config:
  ## @param enabled - boolean - optional - default: false
  ## Set to true to enable Threat Detection
  enabled: true

compliance_config:
  ## @param enabled - boolean - optional - default: false
  ## Set to true to enable CIS benchmarks for Misconfigurations.
  #
  enabled: true
  host_benchmarks:
    enabled: true

/etc/datadog-agent/system-probe.yaml

runtime_security_config:
  ## @param enabled - boolean - optional - default: false
  ## Set to true to enable Threat Detection
  enabled: true

  remote_configuration:
    ## @param enabled - boolean - optional - default: false
    enabled: true

Notes:

  • You can also use the following Agent install script to automatically enable Misconfigurations and Threat Detection:

    DD_COMPLIANCE_CONFIG_ENABLED=true DD_RUNTIME_SECURITY_CONFIG_ENABLED=true DD_API_KEY=<DATADOG_API_KEY> DD_SITE="datadoghq.com" bash -c "$(curl -L https://install.datadoghq.com/scripts/install_script_agent7.sh)"

  • By default, Runtime Security is disabled. To enable it, both the security-agent.yaml and system-probe.yaml files need to be updated.

  • If you use the Agent install script to enable Misconfigurations and Threat Detection, you must manually update the datadog.yaml file to enable host_benchmarks for Misconfigurations, and sbom and container_image for Container Vulnerability Management.

sudo cp /etc/datadog-agent/system-probe.yaml.example /etc/datadog-agent/system-probe.yaml
sudo cp /etc/datadog-agent/security-agent.yaml.example /etc/datadog-agent/security-agent.yaml
sudo chmod 640 /etc/datadog-agent/system-probe.yaml /etc/datadog-agent/security-agent.yaml
sudo chgrp dd-agent /etc/datadog-agent/system-probe.yaml /etc/datadog-agent/security-agent.yaml