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1.36 APPL-15-001010

Information

The macOS system must be configured to shut down upon audit failure.

GROUP ID: V-268455
RULE ID: SV-268455r1038966

The audit service must be configured to shut down the computer if it is unable to audit system events.

Once audit failure occurs, user and system activity are no longer recorded, and malicious activity could go undetected. Audit processing failures can occur due to software/hardware errors, failures in the audit capturing mechanisms, and audit storage capacity being reached or exceeded.

Solution

Configure the macOS system to shut down upon audit failure with the following command:

/usr/bin/sed -i.bak 's/^policy.*/policy: ahlt,argv/' /etc/security/audit_control; /usr/sbin/audit -s

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/23761

Item Details

Category: AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

References: 800-53|AU-5b., CCI|CCI-000140, Rule-ID|SV-268455r1038966_rule, STIG-ID|APPL-15-001010, Vuln-ID|V-268455

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: d8a3bb8737004bfe162bb8aa65370004781b5ac22f06e1057d4cb773483fa5d9