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The Photon operating system must have sshd authentication logging enabled.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

Automated monitoring of remote access sessions allows organizations to detect cyberattacks and ensure ongoing compliance with remote access policies by auditing connection activities. Shipping sshd authentication events to syslog allows organizations to use their log aggregators to correlate forensic activities among multiple systems.

ID
SV-256484r958406_rule
Version
PHTN-30-000007
Severity
Medium
References
Updated

Remediation Templates

A Manual Procedure

Navigate to and open:

/etc/rsyslog.conf

Add the following line: