STIGUI
V-282439CAT II — Medium severitySV-282439r1200297_rule

The TOSS 5 audit system must audit local events.

Rule version TOSS-05-000399 · STIG v1 · 2026-08-20

Discussion

Without establishing what type of events occurred, the source of events, where events occurred, and the outcome of events, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack.

If option "local_events" isn't set to "yes", only events from network will be aggregated.

Check

Verify the TOSS 5 audit system is configured to audit local events using the following command:

$ sudo grep local_events /etc/audit/auditd.conf 

local_events = yes

If "local_events" is not set to "yes", if the command does not return a line, or the line is commented out, this is a finding.

Fix

Configure TOSS 5 to generate audit records for local events by adding or updating the following line in "/etc/audit/auditd.conf":

local_events = yes

Restart the audit daemon for the changes to take effect.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-282439
Group title
SRG-OS-000062-GPOS-00031
Rule ID
SV-282439r1200297_rule
Check ID
C-87000r1200295_chk
Fix ID
F-86905r1200296_fix