General Purpose Operating System Security Requirements Guide
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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The operating system must limit the number of concurrent sessions to ten for all accounts and/or account types.
Operating system management includes the ability to control the number of users and user sessions that utilize an operating system. Limiting the number of allowed users and sessions per user is hel...Rule Low Severity -
The operating system must retain a users session lock until that user reestablishes access using established identification and authentication procedures.
A session lock is a temporary action taken when a user stops work and moves away from the immediate physical vicinity of the information system but does not want to log out because of the temporary...Rule Medium Severity -
The operating system must monitor remote access methods.
Remote access services, such as those providing remote access to network devices and information systems, which lack automated monitoring capabilities, increase risk and make remote user access man...Rule Medium Severity -
The operating system must produce audit records containing information to establish what type of events occurred.
Without establishing what type of events occurred, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack. Audit record content that may be nec...Rule Medium Severity -
The operating system must produce audit records containing information to establish where the events occurred.
Without establishing where events occurred, it is impossible to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack. In order to compile an accurate risk assessment ...Rule Medium Severity -
The operating system must produce audit records containing information to establish the outcome of the events.
Without information about the outcome of events, security personnel cannot make an accurate assessment as to whether an attack was successful or if changes were made to the security state of the sy...Rule Medium Severity -
The operating system must produce audit records containing the individual identities of group account users.
Reconstruction of harmful events or forensic analysis is not possible if audit records do not contain enough information. At a minimum, the organization must audit the individual identities of gro...Rule Medium Severity -
The operating system must provide the capability to centrally review and analyze audit records from multiple components within the system.
Successful incident response and auditing relies on timely, accurate system information and analysis in order to allow the organization to identify and respond to potential incidents in a proficien...Rule Medium Severity -
The operating system must provide the capability to filter audit records for events of interest based upon all audit fields within audit records.
The ability to specify the event criteria that are of interest provides the individuals reviewing the logs with the ability to quickly isolate and identify these events without having to review ent...Rule Medium Severity -
The operating system must protect audit information from unauthorized read access.
Unauthorized disclosure of audit records can reveal system and configuration data to attackers, thus compromising its confidentiality. Audit information includes all information (e.g., audit recor...Rule Medium Severity
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