Re: New draft standards

[Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>]

On Tuesday, December 08, 2015 03:49:58 PM Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> On 15/12/08, Steve Grubb wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I would like to point out 2 new standards that have been posted to the
> > linux audit web page. The first establishes the events around system
> > start up and shutdown. This is important because it sets the session
> > boundaries for when a system is up or down or crashed.
> > 
> > http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/audit/system-lifecycle.txt
> 
> A couple of very minor corrections to this first one:

Thanks, Applied.


> > The second standard is more of a forward looking standard. It explains how
> > the audit daemon and utilities will perform event enrichment before being
> > stored long term in an aggregator. The target for implementation is the
> > 2.5 release of the audit daemon.
> > 
> > http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/audit/event-enrichment
> 
> How do you mean for IP address to be "resolved"?  Is this simply a
> matter of recording it?  Or would this be a reverse lookup on the local
> machine to get the opinion of what it should be from the DNS perspective
> of the local machine, assuming different machines in the logging domain
> could potentially have different views of DNS?

I think the latter. Bot-nets get shut down. Systems go away. Sometimes 
internal names differ from external names.

-Steve


> > Let me know if anyone has feedback on these standards, especially the
> > second one.
> > 
> > -Steve
> 
> - RGB
> 
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