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The HYCU virtual appliance must protect audit tools from unauthorized access, modification, and deletion.

Overview

Finding IDVersionRule IDIA ControlsSeverity
V-268256HYCU-ND-000460SV-268256r1038708_ruleCCI-001493medium
Description
Protecting audit data also includes identifying and protecting the tools used to view and manipulate log data. Therefore, protecting audit tools is necessary to prevent unauthorized operation on audit data. Network devices providing tools to interface with audit data will leverage user permissions and roles identifying the user accessing the tools and the corresponding rights the user enjoys to make access decisions regarding the access to audit tools. Audit tools include, but are not limited to, vendor-provided and open source audit tools needed to successfully view and manipulate audit information system activity and records. Audit tools include custom queries and report generators. Satisfies: SRG-APP-000121-NDM-000238, SRG-APP-000122-NDM-000239, SRG-APP-000123-NDM-000240
STIGDate
HYCU Protege Security Technical Implementation Guide2026-05-23

Related Frameworks

3 mappings across 5 frameworks
SCF0 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 3 hops (5) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

CFG-02Secure Baseline Configurations
1.00
CRY-01Use of Cryptographic Controls
1.00
DCH-01Data Protection
1.00
IAC-21Least Privilege
1.00
MON-08Protection of Event Logs
1.00
NIST 800-530 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 2 hops (58) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

AC-10Concurrent Session Control
1.00
AC-17(10)Authenticate Remote Commands
1.00
AC-2(1)Automated System Account Management
1.00
AC-2(10)Shared and Group Account Credential Change
1.00
AC-2(2)Automated Temporary and Emergency Account Management
1.00
AC-2(3)Disable Accounts
1.00
AC-2(4)Automated Audit Actions
1.00
AC-3Access Enforcement
1.00
AC-3(4)Discretionary Access Control
1.00
AC-3(7)Role-based Access Control
1.00

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NIST 800-1710 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 3 hops (1) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

3.3.8
1.00
CCI3 mappings
CCI-001493
1.00
CCI-001494
1.00
CCI-001495
1.00
NIST CSF 2.00 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 3 hops (1) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

PR.DS-10
1.00

Who does this work

7 NICE work roles and 7 EC-Council certifications.

This is an inference across published mappings, not a single claim by anyone. This check maps to a control, which maps to a Cybersecurity Framework outcome, which NIST assigns to the work roles below. EC-Council separately maps its certifications to those same roles.

A certification prepares someone for a role. It is not evidence that a holder is qualified, and neither NIST nor EC-Council has stated that any certification here addresses this check.

Work-role assignments published by NIST (NICE Framework Components 2.2.0 and the CSF 2.0 OLIR crosswalk). Certification mappings published by EC-Council.

Details

Check Text (C-268256r1038708_chk)

Verify the operating system audit tools and config files have proper permissions and ownership. Log in to the HYCU console and list the full permissions and ownership of the audit folder with the following command: sudo ls -al /etc/audit Folder and files must be owned by root and the following permissions must be set: drwxr-x---. 4 root root 126 Mar 15 10:16 . drwxr-xr-x. 106 root root 8192 May 6 13:58 .. -rw-r-----. 1 root root 751 Apr 24 2020 audisp-remote.conf -rw-r-----. 1 root root 856 Apr 24 2020 auditd.conf -rw-r-----. 1 root root 107 Feb 3 13:18 audit.rules -rw-r-----. 1 root root 127 Apr 24 2020 audit-stop.rules drwxr-x---. 2 root root 67 Mar 15 10:16 plugins.d drwxr-x---. 2 root root 25 Feb 3 13:13 rules.d Audit files must be mode 0640 or less permissive. If any are more permissive, this is a finding. The owner and group owner of all audit files must both be "root". If any other owner or group owner is listed, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-72180r1038467_fix)

Change the mode of the audit log files with the following command: # chmod 0640 [audit_file] Change the owner and group owner of the audit files with the following command: # chown root:root [audit_file]