Title

The IDPS must assign a critical severity level to all audit processing failures. (Cat II impact)

Discussion

It is critical that when the IDPS is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required, it takes action to mitigate the failure Audit processing failures include: software/hardware errors; failures in the audit capturing mechanisms; and audit storage capacity being reached or exceeded. Since action must be taken immediately, these messages will be designated as a critical severity level and this level must be sent as part of the alert message.

Check Content

Verify the IDPS provides assign a critical severity level to all audit processing failures. If the IDPS does not assign a critical severity level to all audit processing failures, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Configure the IDPS to assign a critical severity level to all audit processing failures.

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-206904r856542_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-206904

Group Title: SRG-NET-000335

Expert Comments

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