Monitoring Linux File access, Changes and Data Modifications
Michael Boelen
Monitoring File access, Changes and Data Modifications Linux has several solutions to monitor what happens with your data. From changing contents to who accessed particular information, and at what time. For more tips regarding the Linux audit framework, have a look at our other article Configuring & Auditing Linux Systems with the Audit Daemon File Integrity Monitoring Another interesting level to monitor file changes, is by implementing file integrity tooling. Monitoring File Attributes To monitor file permissions, we can also use the audit framework. The file attributes can be monitored with “-p a“.
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