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audit_settings_failure_notify Configure Audit Failure Notification

NIST macOS Security Compliance Project Sequoia Guidance, Revision 4.0 (be5491f)
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first version loaded Auditing

Title

Configure Audit Failure Notification

Control

/usr/bin/grep -c "logger -s -p" /etc/security/audit_warn

Discussion

The audit service _MUST_ be configured to immediately print messages to the console or email administrator users when an auditing failure occurs.

It is critical for the appropriate personnel to be made aware immediately if a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required. Without a real-time alert, security personnel may be unaware of a potentially harmful failure in the auditing system's capability, and system operation may be adversely affected.

Related controls

au-5, au-5.2

Fix

[source,bash]
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/usr/bin/sed -i.bak 's/logger -p/logger -s -p/' /etc/security/audit_warn; /usr/sbin/audit -s
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