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II - Mission Support Sensitive

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-OS-000297-GPOS-00115

    Group
  • AIX must be able to control the ability of remote login for users.

    Remote access services, such as those providing remote access to network devices and information systems, which lack automated control capabilities, increase risk and make remote user access manage...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-OS-000326-GPOS-00126

    Group
  • NFS file systems on AIX must be mounted with the nosuid option unless the NFS file systems contain approved setuid or setgid programs.

    The nosuid mount option causes the system to not execute setuid files with owner privileges. This option must be used for mounting any file system not containing approved setuid files. Executing se...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

    Group
  • AIX removable media, remote file systems, and any file system not containing approved device files must be mounted with the nodev option.

    The nodev (or equivalent) mount option causes the system to not handle device files as system devices. This option must be used for mounting any file system not containing approved device files. De...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000037-GPOS-00015

    Group
  • AIX must produce audit records containing information to establish what the date, time, and type of events that occurred.

    Without establishing what type of events occurred, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack. Audit record content that may be nec...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000039-GPOS-00017

    Group
  • AIX must produce audit records containing information to establish where the events occurred.

    Without establishing where events occurred, it is impossible to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack. In order to compile an accurate risk assessment ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000040-GPOS-00018

    Group
  • AIX must produce audit records containing information to establish the source and the identity of any individual or process associated with an event.

    Without establishing the source of the event, it is impossible to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack. Without information that establishes the ident...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000041-GPOS-00019

    Group
  • AIX must produce audit records containing information to establish the outcome of the events.

    Without information about the outcome of events, security personnel cannot make an accurate assessment as to whether an attack was successful or if changes were made to the security state of the sy...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000042-GPOS-00020

    Group
  • AIX must produce audit records containing the full-text recording of privileged commands.

    Reconstruction of harmful events or forensic analysis is not possible if audit records do not contain enough information. At a minimum, the organization must audit the full-text recording of privi...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000046-GPOS-00022

    Group
  • AIX must be configured to generate an audit record when 75% of the audit file system is full.

    It is critical for the appropriate personnel to be aware if a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required. Without this notification, the security personnel may be unaware of an ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000054-GPOS-00025

    Group
  • AIX must provide the function to filter audit records for events of interest based upon all audit fields within audit records, support on-demand reporting requirements, and an audit reduction function that supports on-demand audit review and analysis and after-the-fact investigations of security incidents.

    The ability to specify the event criteria that are of interest provides the individuals reviewing the logs with the ability to quickly isolate and identify these events without having to review ent...
    Rule Medium Severity

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