Information
The cron daemon is used to execute batch jobs on the system.
Rationale:
While there may not be user jobs that need to be run on the system, the system does have maintenance jobs that may include security monitoring that have to run, and cron is used to execute them.
Solution
Run the following command to enable cron:
# systemctl --now enable crond
Additional Information:
Additional methods of enabling a service exist. Consult your distribution documentation for appropriate methods.
NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5:
CM-1
CM-2
CM-6
CM-7
IA-5
MITRE ATT&CK Mappings:
Techniques / Sub-techniques
Tactics
Mitigations
T1562, T1562.001
TA0005
M1018