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1.143 OL09-00-000755

Information

OL 9 must label all offloaded audit logs before sending them to the central log server.

GROUP ID: V-271578
RULE ID: SV-271578r1092572

Enriched logging is needed to determine who, what, and when events occur on a system. Without this, determining root cause of an event will be much more difficult.

When audit logs are not labeled before they are sent to a central log server, the audit data will not be able to be analyzed and tied back to the correct system.

Satisfies: SRG-OS-000039-GPOS-00017, SRG-OS-000342-GPOS-00133, SRG-OS-000479-GPOS-00224

Solution

Configure OL 9 to label all offloaded audit logs before sending them to the central log server.

Edit the /etc/audit/auditd.conf file and add or update the "name_format" option:

name_format = hostname

The audit daemon must be restarted for changes to take effect.

Restart auditd:

$ sudo service auditd restart

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/27024

Item Details

Category: AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

References: 800-53|AU-3, 800-53|AU-4(1), CCI|CCI-000132, CCI|CCI-001851, Rule-ID|SV-271578r1092572_rule, STIG-ID|OL09-00-000755, Vuln-ID|V-271578

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 9eb587f832154b6e4cd0bd286cb5163ac8a8f032deaac0224b8f49c21be4649e