The HYCU virtual appliance must protect audit tools from unauthorized access, modification, and deletion.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
Protecting audit data also includes identifying and protecting the tools used to view and manipulate log data. Therefore, protecting audit tools is necessary to prevent unauthorized operation on audit data. Network devices providing tools to interface with audit data will leverage user permissions and roles identifying the user accessing the tools and the corresponding rights the user enjoys to make access decisions regarding the access to audit tools. Audit tools include, but are not limited to, vendor-provided and open source audit tools needed to successfully view and manipulate audit information system activity and records. Audit tools include custom queries and report generators. Satisfies: SRG-APP-000121-NDM-000238, SRG-APP-000122-NDM-000239, SRG-APP-000123-NDM-000240
- ID
- SV-268256r1038708_rule
- Version
- HYCU-ND-000460
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation Templates
A Manual Procedure
Change the mode of the audit log files with the following command:
# chmod 0640 [audit_file]
Change the owner and group owner of the audit files with the following command:
# chown root:root [audit_file]