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V-219960

CAT II (Medium)

The audit system records must be able to be used by a report generation capability.

Rule ID

SV-219960r958774_rule

STIG

Solaris 11 SPARC Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V3R5

CCIs

CCI-001880

Discussion

Enabling the audit system will produce records for use in report generation. Without an audit reporting capability, users find it difficult to identify specific patterns of attack.

Check Content

The Audit Configuration profile is required.

This check applies to the global zone only.  Determine the zone that you are currently securing.

# zonename

If the command output is "global", this check applies.

Check the status of the audit system. It must be auditing.

# pfexec auditconfig -getcond

If this command does not report:

audit condition = auditing

this is a finding.

Fix Text

The Audit Control profile is required.

This action applies to the global zone only.  Determine the zone that you are currently securing.

# zonename

If the command output is "global", this action applies.

If auditing has been disabled, it must be enabled with the following command:

# pfexec audit -s