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Check: GEN002660

AIX 6.1 SECURITY TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE: GEN002660 (in versions v1 r14 through v1 r10)

Title

Auditing must be implemented. (Cat II impact)

Discussion

Without auditing, individual system accesses cannot be tracked and malicious activity cannot be detected and traced back to an individual account.

Check Content

Determine if auditing is enabled. # /usr/sbin/audit query | head -1 If the response Auditing On is not returned, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Use SMIT or command line to enable auditing on the system. #audit start Additionally, make sure auditing subsystem starts on system startup. #mkitab -i cron "audit:2:once:/usr/sbin/audit start 2>&1 > /dev/console"

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-38946r1_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-811

Group Title: GEN002660

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CCIs

CCIs tied to check.

Number	Definition
CCI-000169	The information system provides audit record generation capability for the auditable events defined in AU-2 a. at organization-defined information system components.

Controls

Controls tied to check. These are derived from the CCIs shown above.

Number	Title
AU-12	Audit Generation