Details

Archiving and retaining appfirewall.log for 90 or more days is beneficial in the event of an incident as it will allow the user to view the various changes to the system along with the date and time they occurred.

Solution

Perform the following to implement the prescribed state:

1. Run the following command in Terminal:
sudo vim /etc/asl.conf

2. Replace or edit the current setting with a compliant setting
> appfirewall.log mode=0640 format=bsd rotate=utc compress file_max=5M ttl=90

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

• https://workbench.cisecurity.org/files/301

This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: Audit and Accountability.This control applies to the following type of system Unix.

References

• 800-53|AU-11

Source

• Tenable.com/audits