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General Purpose Operating System Security Requirements Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • The operating system must shut down by default upon audit failure (unless availability is an overriding concern).

    <VulnDiscussion>It is critical that when the operating system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required, it takes action to mit...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000051

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    Group
  • The operating system must provide the capability to centrally review and analyze audit records from multiple components within the system.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Successful incident response and auditing relies on timely, accurate system information and analysis in order to allow the or...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000054

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    Group
  • The operating system must provide the capability to filter audit records for events of interest based upon all audit fields within audit records.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The ability to specify the event criteria that are of interest provides the individuals reviewing the logs with the ability t...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000055

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    Group
  • The operating system must use internal system clocks to generate time stamps for audit records.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without an internal clock used as the reference for the time stored on each event to provide a trusted common reference for t...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000057

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    Group
  • The operating system must protect audit information from unauthorized read access.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Unauthorized disclosure of audit records can reveal system and configuration data to attackers, thus compromising its confide...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000058

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    Group

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