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General Purpose Operating System Security Requirements Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • The operating system must provide a report generation capability that supports on-demand reporting requirements.

    <VulnDiscussion>The report generation capability must support on-demand reporting in order to facilitate the organization's ability to genera...
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  • SRG-OS-000352

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  • The operating system must provide a report generation capability that supports after-the-fact investigations of security incidents.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If the report generation capability does not support after-the-fact investigations, it is difficult to establish, correlate, ...
    Rule Low Severity
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  • SRG-OS-000353

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  • The operating system must not alter original content or time ordering of audit records when it provides an audit reduction capability.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If the audit reduction capability alters the content or time ordering of audit records, the integrity of the audit records is...
    Rule Medium Severity
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  • SRG-OS-000354

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  • The operating system must not alter original content or time ordering of audit records when it provides a report generation capability.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If the report generation capability alters the content or time ordering of audit records, the integrity of the audit records ...
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  • SRG-OS-000355

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  • The operating system must, for networked systems, compare internal information system clocks at least every 24 hours with a server which is synchronized to one of the redundant United States Naval Observatory (USNO) time servers, or a time server designated for the appropriate DOD network (NIPRNet/SIPRNet), and/or the Global Positioning System (GPS).

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Inaccurate time stamps make it more difficult to correlate events and can lead to an inaccurate analysis. Determining the cor...
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  • SRG-OS-000356

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  • The operating system must synchronize internal information system clocks to the authoritative time source when the time difference is greater than one second.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Inaccurate time stamps make it more difficult to correlate events and can lead to an inaccurate analysis. Determining the cor...
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  • SRG-OS-000358

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  • The operating system must record time stamps for audit records that meet a minimum granularity of one second for a minimum degree of precision.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without sufficient granularity of time stamps, it is not possible to adequately determine the chronological order of records....
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  • SRG-OS-000359

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  • The operating system must record time stamps for audit records that can be mapped to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) or Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If time stamps are not consistently applied and there is no common time reference, it is difficult to perform forensic analys...
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  • SRG-OS-000360

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  • The operating system must enforce dual authorization for movement and/or deletion of all audit information, when such movement or deletion is not part of an authorized automatic process.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;An authorized user may intentionally or accidentally move or delete audit records without those specific actions being author...
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  • SRG-OS-000362

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  • The operating system must prohibit user installation of system software without explicit privileged status.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Allowing regular users to install software, without explicit privileges, creates the risk that untested or potentially malici...
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  • SRG-OS-000363

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