Title

The operating system must audit all account removal actions. (Cat II impact)

Discussion

When operating system accounts are removed, user accessibility is affected. Accounts are utilized for identifying individual users or for identifying the operating system processes themselves. In order to detect and respond to events affecting user accessibility and system processing, operating systems must audit account removal actions and, as required, notify the appropriate individuals so they can investigate the event. Such a capability greatly reduces the risk that operating system accessibility will be negatively affected for extended periods of time and provides logging that can be used for forensic purposes. To address access requirements, many operating systems can be integrated with enterprise-level authentication/access/auditing mechanisms that meet or exceed access control policy requirements.

Check Content

Verify the operating system automatically audits account removal actions. If it does not, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Configure the operating system to automatically audit account removal actions.

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-203668r379210_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-203668

Group Title: SRG-OS-000241

Expert Comments

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