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IBM AIX 7.x Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • AIX must provide a report generation function that supports on-demand audit review and analysis, on-demand reporting requirements, and after-the-fact investigations of security incidents.

    <VulnDiscussion>The report generation capability must support on-demand review and analysis in order to facilitate the organization's ability...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000359-GPOS-00146

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • AIX 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...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • AIX audit logs must be rotated daily.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Rotate audit logs daily to preserve audit file system space and to conform to the DoD/DISA requirement. If it is not rotated ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000074-GPOS-00042

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The AIX rexec daemon must not be running.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The exec service is used to execute a command sent from a remote server. The username and passwords are passed over the netwo...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-OS-000074-GPOS-00042

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • AIX telnet daemon must not be running.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;This telnet service is used to service remote user connections. This is historically the most commonly used remote access met...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-OS-000074-GPOS-00042

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group

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