V-215256

Discussion

Rotate audit logs daily to preserve audit file system space and to conform to the DoD/DISA requirement. If it is not rotated daily and moved to another location, then there is more of a chance for the compromise of audit data by malicious users.

Check Content

Check for any "crontab" entries that rotate audit logs:

# crontab -l 
30  23  * * * /root/logrotate.sh     #Daily log rotation script
If such a cron job is found, this is not a finding. 

Otherwise, query the SA. 

If there is a process automatically rotating audit logs, this is not a finding. 

If the SA manually rotates audit logs, this is a finding.  

If the audit output is not archived daily, to tape or disk, this is a finding. 

Review the audit log directory.

If more than one file is there, or if the file does not have today's date, this is a finding.