FINT-4350 - Install a file integrity tool
This information is provided as part of the Lynis community project. It is related to Lynis control FINT-4350 and should be considered as-is and without guarantees. Any advice and commands should be tested before implementing them in production environments.
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| Category | File Integrity |
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Description
How to solve
Install a tool like AIDE to help monitoring file changes. Good monitoring will ensure that both authorized changes are properly documented, and unauthorized changes are detected early.
Tip: when possible, link events to a (security) monitoring system, or your ITIL problem management. Especially unauthorized changes need a root cause analysis, or trigger incident response.
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