The operating system must provide an audit reduction capability that supports on-demand reporting requirements.

The ability to generate on-demand reports, including after the audit data has been subjected to audit reduction, greatly facilitates the organization's ability to generate incident reports as needed to better handle larger-scale or more complex security incidents.

Audit reduction is a process that manipulates collected audit information and organizes such information in a summary format that is more meaningful to analysts. The report generation capability provided by the application must support on-demand (i.e., customizable, ad hoc, and as-needed) reports.

Verify the operating system provides an audit reduction capability that supports on-demand reporting requirements. If it does not, this is a finding.

Configure the operating system to provide an audit reduction capability that supports on-demand reporting requirements.