Information
Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an incident or identify those responsible for one. Audit records can be generated from various components within the information system (e.g., module or policy filter).
Satisfies: SRG-OS-000004-GPOS-00004, SRG-OS-000239-GPOS-00089, SRG-OS-000240-GPOS-00090, SRG-OS-000241-GPOS-00091, SRG-OS-000327-GPOS-00127, SRG-OS-000392-GPOS-00172, SRG-OS-000471-GPOS-00215, SRG-OS-000471-GPOS-00216, SRG-OS-000476-GPOS-00221, SRG-OS-000477-GPOS-00222
Solution
To ensure the appropriate flags are enabled for auditing, run the following command:
/usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/sed -i.bak '/^flags/ s/$/,ad/' /etc/security/audit_control; /usr/bin/sudo /usr/sbin/audit -s
A text editor may also be used to implement the required updates to the '/etc/security/audit_control' file.
Item Details
Category: AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY
References: 800-53|AU-12, CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000018, CCI|CCI-000172, CCI|CCI-001403, CCI|CCI-001404, CCI|CCI-001405, CCI|CCI-002234, CCI|CCI-002884, Rule-ID|SV-90673r1_rule, STIG-ID|AOSX-12-000120, Vuln-ID|V-75985
Control ID: 7f12dd657945f759b9faf6fb64eab9275daa4e52b667725a8a11742210ab3780