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audit_off_load_records Off-Load Audit Records

NIST macOS Security Compliance Project Tahoe Guidance, Revision 3.0 (cf656e8)
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Title

Off-Load Audit Records

Control

The technology does not support this requirement. This is an applicable-does not meet finding.

Discussion

Audit records should be off-loaded onto a different system or media from the system being audited.

Information stored in only one location is vulnerable to accidental or incidental deletion or alteration. Off-loading is a common process in information systems with limited audit storage capacity.

To secure audit records by off-loading, many operating systems can be integrated with enterprise-level auditing mechanisms that meet or exceed this requirement.

Related controls

au-4.1

Fix

This requirement is a permanent finding and cannot be fixed. An appropriate mitigation for the system must be implemented, but this finding cannot be considered fixed.