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OSPP - Protection Profile for General Purpose Operating Systems

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • Ensure auditd Collects Information on the Use of Privileged Commands - sudoedit

    At a minimum, the audit system should collect the execution of privileged commands for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is con...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure auditd Collects Information on the Use of Privileged Commands - umount

    At a minimum, the audit system should collect the execution of privileged commands for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is con...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure auditd Collects Information on the Use of Privileged Commands - unix_chkpwd

    At a minimum, the audit system should collect the execution of privileged commands for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is con...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure auditd Collects Information on the Use of Privileged Commands - userhelper

    At a minimum, the audit system should collect the execution of privileged commands for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is con...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure auditd Collects Information on the Use of Privileged Commands - usernetctl

    At a minimum, the audit system should collect the execution of privileged commands for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is con...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Configure auditd Data Retention

    The audit system writes data to <code>/var/log/audit/audit.log</code>. By default, <code>auditd</code> rotates 5 logs by size (6MB), retaining a ma...
    Group
  • Configure audispd Plugin To Send Logs To Remote Server

    Configure the audispd plugin to off-load audit records onto a different system or media from the system being audited. Set the <code>remote_server...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Encrypt Audit Records Sent With audispd Plugin

    Configure the operating system to encrypt the transfer of off-loaded audit records onto a different system or media from the system being audited. ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Configure auditd to use audispd's syslog plugin

    To configure the <code>auditd</code> service to use the <code>syslog</code> plug-in of the <code>audispd</code> audit event multiplexor, set the <c...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Set number of records to cause an explicit flush to audit logs

    To configure Audit daemon to issue an explicit flush to disk command after writing <xccdf-1.2:sub idref="xccdf_org.ssgproject.content_value_var_aud...
    Rule Medium Severity

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