Title

The operating system must produce audit records containing information to establish where the events occurred. (Cat II impact)

Discussion

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 and provide forensic analysis, it is essential for security personnel to know where events occurred, such as operating system components, modules, device identifiers, node names, file names, and functionality. Associating information about where the event occurred within the operating system provides a means of investigating an attack; recognizing resource utilization or capacity thresholds; or identifying an improperly configured operating system.

Check Content

Verify the operating system produces audit records containing information to establish where the events occurred. If it does not, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Configure the operating system to produce audit records containing information to establish where the events occurred.

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-203606r958416_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-203606

Group Title: SRG-OS-000039

Expert Comments

CCIs tied to check.

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