Re: Looking ahead towards audit requirements (CAPP, LSPP)

From: Casey Schaufler (caseyat_private)
Date: Mon Jul 16 2001 - 16:02:37 PDT

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    David Wheeler wrote:
    > 
    > Crispin Cowan has suggested that the "next stage" should examine
    > audit requirements, and SGI has worked hard on figuring out how to
    > implement the "CAPP" requirements for auditing.
    
    Thank you. Especially, thank you for the feedback on
    the first set of changes we proposed. I expect our revised
    proposals to be considerably more palatable. Stephen's
    suggestion regarding interposition was especially well founded.
    
    > I'm sure that there are other events that someone might want to audit,
    > and I'm sure not everyone would want this list.
    
    Just as any particular decision might rouse debate as to
    its inclusion in "policy", so to may the value in recording
    it for posterity.
    
    > However, a
    > system that has enough hooks to audit these events would be a good start,
    > and you'd be able to refer to a canonical list of events to audit.
    
    Audit implementations often stress the mindsets of
    criteria developers, programmers, and system admins.
    The tradeoffs between performance, completeness, usability
    and clarity could drive a Bishop to drink.
    
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