DTAVSEL-205 - A notification mechanism or process must be in place to notify Administrators of out of date DAT, detected malware and error codes.

Information

Failure of anti-virus signature updates will eventually render the software to be useless in protecting the Linux system from malware. Administration notification for failed updates, via SMTP, will ensure timely remediation of errors causing DATs to not be updated.

NOTE: Nessus has not performed this check. Please review the benchmark to ensure target compliance.

Solution

Configure Automatic Response to capture all required event descriptions and to send email notifications to the System Administrator(s).

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_McAfee_VSEL_1-9_2-0_Y20M04_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: SYSTEM AND INFORMATION INTEGRITY

References: 800-53|SI-3b., CAT|II, CCI|CCI-001240, Rule-ID|SV-77559r2_rule, STIG-ID|DTAVSEL-205, Vuln-ID|V-63069

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 7e7318e9ae1032f2dbd57784e91daad2e6dd39e649604c2ce616a3b5f7ce8886