AIX must protect the confidentiality and integrity of all information at rest.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
<VulnDiscussion>Information at rest refers to the state of information when it is located on a secondary storage device (e.g., disk drive and tape drive, when used for backups) within an operating system. This requirement addresses protection of user-generated data, as well as operating system-specific configuration data. Organizations may choose to employ different mechanisms to achieve confidentiality and integrity protections, as appropriate, in accordance with the security category and/or classification of the information.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>
- ID
- SV-215207r958552_rule
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation - Manual Procedure
Install "clic.rte" fileset if it is not installed using command:
# installp -aXYqg -d /dev/cd0 clic.rte
Run the follow command to initialize and enable EFS on the system:
# efsenable -a