The operating system audit records must be able to be used by a report generation capability.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-29069	SRG-OS-000053	SV-37060r1_rule		Medium

Description
Logging the actions of specific events provides a means to investigate an attack, recognize resource utilization or capacity thresholds, or to simply identify a network element that has been configured improperly. In order to determine what is happening within the network infrastructure or to resolve and trace an attack, it is imperative to correlate the log data from multiple network elements to acquire a clear understanding as to what happened or is happening. The operating system audit records must be able to be consumed by the audit report generation capability.

Description

Logging the actions of specific events provides a means to investigate an attack, recognize resource utilization or capacity thresholds, or to simply identify a network element that has been configured improperly. In order to determine what is happening within the network infrastructure or to resolve and trace an attack, it is imperative to correlate the log data from multiple network elements to acquire a clear understanding as to what happened or is happening. The operating system audit records must be able to be consumed by the audit report generation capability.

STIG	Date
Operating System Security Requirements Guide	2013-03-28

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