System Integrity Protection Status

Overview

Evidence: System Integrity Protection Status Description: Collect SIP status Category: System Platform: macos Short Name: sip Is Parsed: Yes Sent to Investigation Hub: Yes Collect File(s): No

Background

System Integrity Protection (SIP) restricts the root user from performing certain operations to protect system integrity. This data is essential for assessing hardening state and detecting weakened protections.

Data Collected

This collector gathers structured data about system integrity protection status.

Collection Method

This collector queries the sip_config table via osquery and records results into sip_status.

Forensic Value

This evidence is crucial for forensic investigations as it indicates whether protections are disabled, potentially enabling malicious modifications to the system.