Title

The Central Log Server must produce audit records containing information to establish what type of events occurred. (Cat III impact)

Discussion

Without establishing what type of event occurred, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an incident, or identify those responsible for one. Audit record content that may be necessary to satisfy the requirement of this policy includes, for example, time stamps, source and destination addresses, user/process identifiers, event descriptions, success/fail indications, filenames involved, and access control or flow control rules invoked. Associating event types with detected events in the application and audit logs provides a means of investigating an attack; recognizing resource utilization or capacity thresholds; or identifying an improperly configured application.

Check Content

Examine the configuration. Verify that the Central Log Server produces audit records containing information to establish what type of events occurred. If the Central Log Server is not configured to produce audit records containing information to establish what type of events occurred, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Configure the Central Log Server to produce audit records containing information to establish what type of events occurred.

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-221908r420068_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-221908

Group Title: SRG-APP-000095

Expert Comments

CCIs tied to check.

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