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III - Administrative Classified

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • The macOS system must initiate session audits at system startup, using internal clocks with time stamps for audit records that meet a minimum granularity of one second and can be mapped to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) or Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), in order to generate audit records containing information to establish what type of events occurred, the identity of any individual or process associated with the event, including individual identities of group account users, establish where the events occurred, source of the event, and outcome of the events including all account enabling actions, full-text recording of privileged commands, and information about the use of encryption for access wireless access to and from the system.

    <VulnDiscussion>Without establishing what type of events occurred, when they occurred, and by whom it would be difficult to establish, correl...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000047-GPOS-00023

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  • The macOS system must shut down by default upon audit failure (unless availability is an overriding concern).

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The audit service should shut down the computer if it is unable to audit system events. Once audit failure occurs, user and s...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000057-GPOS-00027

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    Group
  • The macOS system must be configured with audit log files owned by root.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The audit service must be configured to create log files with the correct ownership to prevent normal users from reading audi...
    Rule Medium Severity

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