Title

The ALG must produce audit records containing information to establish where the events occurred. (Cat II impact)

Discussion

Without establishing where events occurred, it is impossible to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack. In order to compile an accurate risk assessment, and provide forensic analysis, it is essential for security personnel to know where events occurred, such as network element components, modules, device identifiers, node names, and functionality. Associating information about where the event occurred within the network provides a means of investigating an attack, recognizing resource utilization or capacity thresholds, or identifying an improperly configured network element. This requirement does not apply to audit logs generated on behalf of the device itself (management).

Check Content

Verify the ALG produces audit records containing information to establish where the events occurred. If the ALG does not produce audit records containing information to establish where the events occurred, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Configure the ALG to produce audit records containing information to establish where the events occurred.

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-68667r1_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-54421

Group Title: SRG-NET-000076-ALG-000045

Expert Comments

CCIs tied to check.

Controls tied to check. These are derived from the CCIs shown above.