AOSX-15-001003 - The macOS system must initiate session audits at system startup

Information

Without establishing what type of events occurred, when they occurred, and by whom it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack.

Audit record content that may be necessary to satisfy this requirement includes, for example, time stamps, source and destination addresses, user/process identifiers, event descriptions, success/fail indications, filenames involved, and access control or flow control rules invoked.

Associating event types with detected events in the operating system audit logs provides a means of investigating an attack, recognizing resource utilization or capacity thresholds, or identifying an improperly configured operating system.

Satisfies: SRG-OS-000037-GPOS-00015, SRG-OS-000038-GPOS-00016, SRG-OS-000039-GPOS-00017, SRG-OS-000040-GPOS-00018, SRG-OS-000041-GPOS-00019, SRG-OS-000042-GPOS-00020, SRG-OS-000042-GPOS-00021, SRG-OS-000055-GPOS-00026, SRG-OS-000254-GPOS-00095, SRG-OS-000255-GPOS-00096, SRG-OS-000303-GPOS-00120, SRG-OS-000337-GPOS-00129, SRG-OS-000358-GPOS-00145, SRG-OS-000359-GPOS-00146

Solution

To enable the audit service, run the following command:

/usr/bin/sudo /bin/launchctl enable system/com.apple.auditd

The system may need to be restarted for the update to take effect.

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_Apple_OS_X_10-15_V1R10_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: ACCESS CONTROL, AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

References: 800-53|AC-2(4), 800-53|AU-3, 800-53|AU-3(1), 800-53|AU-8a., 800-53|AU-8b., 800-53|AU-12(3), 800-53|AU-14(1), CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000130, CCI|CCI-000131, CCI|CCI-000132, CCI|CCI-000133, CCI|CCI-000134, CCI|CCI-000135, CCI|CCI-000159, CCI|CCI-001464, CCI|CCI-001487, CCI|CCI-001889, CCI|CCI-001890, CCI|CCI-001914, CCI|CCI-002130, Rule-ID|SV-225144r853314_rule, STIG-ID|AOSX-15-001003, STIG-Legacy|SV-111667, STIG-Legacy|V-102705, Vuln-ID|V-225144

Plugin: Unix

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