V-261416

Discussion

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

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Verify what action the audit system takes if it cannot offload audit records to a different system or storage media from SLEM 5 being audited.

Check the action that the audit system takes in the event of a network failure with the following command:

     > sudo grep -i "network_failure_action" /etc/audisp/audisp-remote.conf
     network_failure_action = syslog

If the "network_failure_action" option is not set to "syslog", "single", or "halt" or the line is commented out, this is a finding.