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General Purpose Operating System Security Requirements Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • The operating system must protect audit information from unauthorized deletion.

    If audit information were to become compromised, then forensic analysis and discovery of the true source of potentially malicious system activity is impossible to achieve. To ensure the veracity o...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000062

    Group
  • SRG-OS-000063

    Group
  • The operating system must allow only the ISSM (or individuals or roles appointed by the ISSM) to select which auditable events are to be audited.

    Without the capability to restrict which roles and individuals can select which events are audited, unauthorized personnel may be able to prevent the auditing of critical events. Misconfigured audi...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000064

    Group
  • The operating system must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to access privileges occur.

    Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an in...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000066

    Group
  • The operating system, for PKI-based authentication, must validate certificates by constructing a certification path (which includes status information) to an accepted trust anchor.

    Without path validation, an informed trust decision by the relying party cannot be made when presented with any certificate not already explicitly trusted. A trust anchor is an authoritative entit...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000067

    Group
  • SRG-OS-000068

    Group

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