Stethoscope: User-Focused Security

Stethoscope is a web application that collects information from existing device data sources (e.g., JAMF or LANDESK) on a given user’s devices and gives them clear and specific recommendations for securing their systems. An overview is available on the Netflix Tech Blog.

Quickstart

If you have node (version 6.4+) and npm (included with node) installed already and just want to play around with the front end, run:

make install-develop-ui

What is Stethoscope?

Main Features

• Retrieves device information from:
  • JAMF
  • LANDESK
  • G Suite (Google) Mobile Management
  • bitFit
• Evaluates status of various security practices, including:
  • Disk encryption
  • Firewall
  • Screen saver lock/password
  • Operating system up-to-date
  • Operating system auto-update
  • Not jailbroken/rooted
  • Software presence (e.g., for monitoring tools)
• Merges associated device records
• Plugin architecture:
  • Easy to add data sources, practices, and other components
  • Examples and base plugins for communicating with Elasticsearch and HTTP REST APIs

Getting Started

Stethoscope consists of two primary pieces: a Python-based back-end and a React-based front-end. Nginx is used to serve static files and route traffic to the back-end.

The easiest way to get up-and-running quickly is through the provided Docker configuration.

Docker

To run with Docker, first install Docker (standard or beta).

We have provided a Docker Compose file, docker-compose.yml, that defines the services that make up Stethoscope. To start these services, run:

docker-compose up

Then connect to the main Nginx web server at http://localhost:5000.

Troubleshooting

If you encounter the following error, you likely need to upgrade docker-compose to version 1.10 or higher.

ERROR: In file './docker-compose.yml' service 'version' doesn't have any configuration options. All top level keys in your docker-compose.yml must map to a dictionary of configuration options.

Next Steps

Our full documentation is available at https://stethoscope.readthedocs.org.

LICENSE

Copyright 2016, 2017 Netflix, Inc.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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