audit_policy resource
Use the audit_policy Chef InSpec audit resource to test auditing policies on the Windows platform. An auditing policy is a category of security-related events to be audited. Auditing is disabled by default and may be enabled for categories like account management, logon events, policy changes, process tracking, privilege use, system events, or object access. For each enabled auditing category property, the auditing level may be set to No Auditing, Not Specified, Success, Success and Failure, or Failure.
Availability
Install
This resource is distributed with Chef InSpec and is automatically available for use.Version
This resource first became available in v1.0.0 of InSpec.
Syntax
An audit_policy resource block declares a parameter that belongs to an audit policy category or subcategory:
describe audit_policy do
its('parameter') { should eq 'value' }
end
where
'parameter'must specify a parameter'value'must be one ofNo Auditing,Not Specified,Success,Success and Failure, orFailure
Examples
The following examples show how to use this Chef InSpec audit resource.
Test that a parameter is not set to “No Auditing”
describe audit_policy do
its('Other Account Logon Events') { should_not eq 'No Auditing' }
end
Test that a parameter is set to “Success”
describe audit_policy do
its('User Account Management') { should eq 'Success' }
end