Documentation - V-213755

Title

DB2 must generate audit records for all privileged activities or other system-level access.

Description

<VulnDiscussion>Without tracking privileged activity, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an incident or identify those responsible for one. System documentation should include a definition of the functionality considered privileged. A privileged function in this context is any operation that modifies the structure of the database, its built-in logic, or its security settings. This would include all Data Definition Language (DDL) statements an...

Fix Text (Documentation Requirement)

Define an audit policy with the needed subset using the CREATE AUDIT POLICY SQL statement: DB2> CREATE AUDIT POLICY <DB audit policy name> CATEGORIES SECMAINT STATUS BOTH, OBJMAINT STATUS BOTH, AUDIT STATUS BOTH, SYSADMIN STATUS BOTH, CONTEXT STATUS BOTH ERROR TYPE AUDIT To modify an existing audit policy, replace "CREATE" with "ALTER" in the preceding statement. Only the categories explicitly named in the statement will be affected. In this case, the changes take effect immediately. If CREATE was used above, apply the policy created to the database: DB2> AUDIT DATABASE USING POLICY <DB audit policy name>