The operating system must provide a real-time alert when organization-defined audit failure events occur.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-51501	OSX8-00-00310	SV-65711r1_rule		Medium

Description
It is critical for the appropriate personnel to be aware if a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required. Audit processing failures include, software/hardware errors, failures in the audit capturing mechanisms, and audit storage capacity being reached or exceeded. Organizations must define audit failure events requiring an application to send an alarm. When those defined events occur, the application will provide a real-time alert to the appropriate personnel.

Description

It is critical for the appropriate personnel to be aware if a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required. Audit processing failures include, software/hardware errors, failures in the audit capturing mechanisms, and audit storage capacity being reached or exceeded. Organizations must define audit failure events requiring an application to send an alarm. When those defined events occur, the application will provide a real-time alert to the appropriate personnel.

STIG	Date
Apple OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) Workstation STIG	2015-02-10

Details

Check Text ( C-53845r2_chk )
To verify that the system log is writing audit failure or warnings run the following command: sudo grep logger /etc/security/audit_warn If this does not return: logger -p security.warning "audit warning: $@" this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-56305r1_fix)
Edit the /etc/security/audit_warn file to include the line: logger -p security.warning "audit warning: $@"