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Audit (auditd daemon): 13 controls for Linux hardening

Pavois audits 13 controls in the Audit (auditd daemon) hardening domain, across 9 systems and 4 standards (CIS, NIST 800-53, PCI DSS, DISA STIG). Every control declares the evidence it gathers, its severity, its remediation and its standard references.

The domain in figures

Controls13
Severities
medium 13
Evidence gathered
persistent config 13
Standards
CISNIST 800-53PCI DSSDISA STIG
Systems
Debian 12Debian 13FedoraRHEL 10 / Rocky 10 / AlmaLinux 10RHEL 8 / Rocky 8 / AlmaLinux 8RHEL 9 / Rocky 9 / AlmaLinux 9Ubuntu 22.04Ubuntu 24.04Ubuntu 26.04
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What does Pavois check in this domain?

persistent config 13
Checked against the content of a persistent configuration file, the source of truth that survives reboots.

Which standards does this domain cover?

One effective-configuration check serves as evidence for several standards at once. The references below are the ones the corpus actually carries, never a claimed equivalence. how to read a standard mapping.

CIS
6.2.2.1, 6.2.2.2, 6.2.2.3, 6.2.2.4, 6.3.2.1, 6.3.2.2, 6.3.2.3, 6.3.2.4, 10.5.1
NIST 800-53
3.3.1, AU-5(1), AU-5(2), AU-5(4), AU-5(a), AU-5(b), AU-11, CM-6(a), IA-5(1)
PCI DSS
10.2.2, 10.5.1
DISA STIG
UBTU-22-653025, UBTU-22-653030, UBTU-22-653040, UBTU-24-900960, UBTU-24-900980

The 13 controls of the Audit (auditd daemon) domain

Sources & references

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