Details

If time stamps are not consistently applied and there is no common time reference, it is difficult to perform forensic analysis. Time stamps generated by VMware Postgres must include date and time expressed in UTC, a modern continuation of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Solution

At the command prompt, execute the following commands:

# /opt/vmware/vpostgres/current/bin/psql -U postgres -c ‘ALTER SYSTEM SET log_timezone TO ‘Etc/UTC’;’

# /opt/vmware/vpostgres/current/bin/psql -U postgres -c ‘SELECT pg_reload_conf();’

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

• https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_VMW_vSphere_6-7_STIG.zip

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-8b.
• CAT|II
• CCI|CCI-001890
• Rule-ID|SV-239215r717066_rule
• STIG-ID|VCPG-67-000023
• Vuln-ID|V-239215

Source

• Tenable.com/audits