The Photon operating system must ensure audit events are flushed to disk at proper intervals.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
<VulnDiscussion>Without the capability to generate audit records, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an incident or identify those responsible for one. To that end, the auditd service must be configured to start automatically and be running at all times.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>
- ID
- SV-258855r991589_rule
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation - Manual Procedure
Navigate to and open:
/etc/audit/auditd.conf
Add or update the following lines: