A contractor has been hired by you company to do some application-specific tuning. You are the administrator
of the server that the contractor will be working on. You decide to enable Oracle Solaris Auditing. How will
auditing help prevent misuse of the server?
A.
prevents attempts to bypass the protection mechanisms
B.
stops unauthorized activity
C.
acts as a deterrent
D.
prevents misuse
Explanation:
The audit service makes the following possible:
Monitoring security-relevant events that take place on the host
Recording the events in a network-wide audit trail
Detecting misuse or unauthorized activity
Reviewing patterns of access and the access histories of individuals and objects
Discovering attempts to bypass the protection mechanisms
Discovering extended use of privilege that occurs when a user changes identity
Incorrect:
Not A: auditing does not prevent attempts to bypass the protection mechanisms, it just discovers them.