The operating system must back up audit records on an organization-defined frequency onto a different system or media than the system being audited.

From Apple OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) Workstation STIG

Associated with: CCI-001348

SV-65603r1_rule The operating system must back up audit records on an organization-defined frequency onto a different system or media than the system being audited.

Vulnerability discussion

Protection of log data includes assuring the log data is not accidentally lost or deleted. Backing up audit records to a different system or onto separate media than the system being audited on an organizationally defined frequency helps to assure in the event of a catastrophic system failure, the audit records will be retained.

Check content

To check the location of the audit log files, run the following command: sudo ls -ld `sudo grep "^dir" /etc/security/audit_control | sed 's/dir://'` The default location is /var/audit. If this is not defined or defined incorrectly, this is a finding.

Fix text

Edit the /etc/security/audit_control file to define the directory for audit logs.

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