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Best Practice Auditd Configuration

Idea

The idea of this auditd configuration is to provide a basic configuration that

• works out-of-the-box on all major Linux distributions
• fits most use cases
• produces a reasonable amount of log data
• covers security relevant activity
• is easy to read (different sections, many comments)

Sources

The configuration is based on the following sources

Gov.uk auditd rules alphagov/puppet-auditd#1

CentOS 7 hardening https://highon.coffee/blog/security-harden-centos-7/#auditd---audit-daemon

Linux audit repo https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-userspace/tree/master/rules

Auditd high performance linux auditing https://linux-audit.com/tuning-auditd-high-performance-linux-auditing/

Further rules

Not all of these rules have been included.

For PCI DSS compliance see: https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-userspace/blob/master/rules/30-pci-dss-v31.rules

For NISPOM compliance see: https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-userspace/blob/master/rules/30-nispom.rules

Contribution

Please contribute your changes as pull requests