content VS ansible-role-hardening

For starters there's an entire NIST project for macOS Security Compliance - https://github.com/usnistgov/macos_security this will make your life a million times easier to meet a lot of the technical controls required for compliance. Nothing like this really exists for Windows or Linux(closest is Compliance As Code https://github.com/ComplianceAsCode/content)

I haven't used this in a while but take a look at ComplianceAsCode it is attempting to apply controls for each of the different benchmarks on different OSes. It might have what you are looking for, plus you can always contribute back any changes you make to help others.

Many thanks u/pixelavenger. While I did not (yet) find the specific CIS recommendation, but I did find this which indicates that disabling SCTP module is perhaps too strong a reaction if the only justification is disabling those networking features that are usually not used frequently (to reduce attack surface). Apparently there was a vulnerability in WebRTC's user-space SCTP implementation, which has hence been fixed. There seem to be no known vulnerabilities in linux kernel SCTP implementation. Do you think Azure Support might be requested to optionally enable SCTP kernel module in the images ? Thanks also for the idea about using Daemon-set approach, perhaps a bit kludgy for the needs, as one'd need to invent a way to synchronize the completion of Daemon-set's task of enabling SCTP and startup of application that needs SCTP. Still better than nothing at all.