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The Photon operating system must ensure audit events are flushed to disk at proper intervals.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

Without setting a balance between performance and ensuring all audit events are written to disk, performance of the system may suffer or the risk of missing audit entries may be too high.

ID
SV-256544r991589_rule
Version
PHTN-30-000074
Severity
Medium
References
Updated

Remediation Templates

A Manual Procedure

Navigate to and open:

/etc/audit/auditd.conf

Ensure the following line is present and any existing "flush" and "freq" settings are removed: