I'm guessing it's because it comes with RHEL and is therefore supported and
easy to test out of the box.
If your local Security Officer is willing to allow it, you could use pretty
much anything in place of AIDE.
Trevor
On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 6:50 PM, Bond Masuda <bond.masuda(a)hexadiam.com>
wrote:
I'm not sure if this is the place to talk about the specific
content of
the security standards or if the SSG is more "meta"...
I see there is a test Rule ID: *package_aide_installed. *I am inclined to
think that the spirit of this test is to have a file integrity monitoring
(FIM) system. But why AIDE specifically? There are a few options for FIM,
but not too many that one couldn't write tests to ensure that at least one
of the handful of fully featured OSS FIM solutions is installed and
configured. (other options that come to mind are OSSEC and Samhain)
Additionally, AIDE development seems to be stagnant and perhaps not the
best choice at this time.
Where is this guidance coming from? Is the source of the guidance really
technology specific or is the choice of AIDE just a specific interpretation
of a more general guidance for a FIM solution? What's the rationale, if so?
-Bond
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