The operating system must protect information obtained from intrusion-monitoring tools from unauthorized access, modification, and deletion.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
RHEL-06-000459-PNF	RHEL-06-000459-PNF	RHEL-06-000459-PNF_rule		Medium

Description
Intrusion-monitoring tools can accumulate a significant amount of sensitive data; examples could include user account information and application data not related to the intrusion monitoring application itself. Intrusion monitoring tools also obtain information that is critical to conducting forensic analysis on attacks that occur within the network. This data may be sensitive in nature. Information obtained by intrusion monitoring applications in the course of evaluating network and system security needs to be protected. While this is an operating system requirement, the data collected may be in different files or locations depending upon the IDS/IPS product being used.

Description

Intrusion-monitoring tools can accumulate a significant amount of sensitive data; examples could include user account information and application data not related to the intrusion monitoring application itself. Intrusion monitoring tools also obtain information that is critical to conducting forensic analysis on attacks that occur within the network. This data may be sensitive in nature. Information obtained by intrusion monitoring applications in the course of evaluating network and system security needs to be protected. While this is an operating system requirement, the data collected may be in different files or locations depending upon the IDS/IPS product being used.

STIG	Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2013-02-05

Details

Check Text ( C-RHEL-06-000459-PNF_chk )
RHEL6 supports this requirement and cannot be configured to be out of compliance. This is a permanent not a finding.

Fix Text (F-RHEL-06-000459-PNF_fix)
This requirement is a permanent not a finding. No fix is required.