V-261471

Discussion

Without generating audit records specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an incident or identify those responsible for one. Audit records can be generated from various components within the information system (e.g., module or policy filter).

Check Content

Verify SLEM 5 generates an audit record for the "/var/log/wtmp" file with the following command:

     > sudo auditctl -l | grep -w '/var/log/wtmp'
     -w /var/log/wtmp -p wa -k login_mod

If the command does not return a line that matches the example, this is a finding.

Note: The "key=" value is arbitrary and can be different from the example output above.