> I don't care for the thought of the network blocking all of
my operations
Operations shouldn’t block. I suggest an IGMP + loopback data pump.
From: Trevor Vaughan [mailto:tvaughan@onyxpoint.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 6, 2017 10:02 PM
To: SCAP Security Guide <scap-security-guide(a)lists.fedorahosted.org>
Subject: Audit Offloading in the EL7 STIG
So, I was digging through and found the following:
RHEL-07-030300
The operating system must off-load audit records onto a different system or media from the
system being audited.
and
RHEL-07-030310
The operating system must encrypt the transfer of audit records off-loaded onto a
different system or media from the system being audited.
This poses a real problem since there are pretty much limitless methods to meet this
requirement and, given that actual proof is multi-node, this is going to be *really*
difficult to evaluate properly.
As much as I like auditd, I don't care for the thought of the network blocking all of
my operations, so I've opted to pass it along to syslog. My syslog is then TLS
encrypted to the various shipping points. This obviously meets the requirement, and I can
automatically test that configuration in my code but I feel like this is yet another place
where we're going to have difficulty with the SSG.
I also noticed that this one hasn't been implemented in the SSG and I'm guessing
that this is why.
What are the plans for things like this moving forward?
Thanks,
Trevor
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