| V-81287 | High | The Central Log Server, when utilizing PKI-based authentication, must validate certificates by constructing a certification path (which includes status information) to an accepted trust anchor. | Without path validation, an informed trust decision by the relying party cannot be made when presented with any certificate not already explicitly trusted.
A trust anchor is an authoritative... |
| V-81285 | High | For accounts using password authentication, the Central Log Server must use FIPS-validated SHA-1 or later protocol to protect the integrity of the password authentication process. | Passwords need to be protected at all times, and encryption is the standard method for protecting passwords. If passwords are not encrypted, they can be plainly read (i.e., clear text) and easily... |
| V-81283 | High | For accounts using password authentication, the Central Log Server must be configured to store only cryptographic representations of passwords. | Passwords need to be protected at all times, and encryption is the standard method for protecting passwords. If passwords are not encrypted, they can be plainly read and easily compromised. Use of... |
| V-81281 | High | The Central Log Server must be configured to uniquely identify and authenticate organizational users (or processes acting on behalf of organizational users). | To assure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, organizational users must be identified and authenticated to prevent potential misuse and compromise of the system.
Organizational... |
| V-81289 | High | The Central Log Server, when using PKI-based authentication, must enforce authorized access to the corresponding private key. | If the private key is discovered, an attacker can use the key to authenticate as an authorized user and gain access to the network infrastructure.
The cornerstone of the PKI is the private key... |
| V-81295 | High | The Central Log Server must use FIPS-validated SHA-1 or higher hash function to protect the integrity of keyed-hash message authentication code (HMAC), Key Derivation Functions (KDFs), Random Bit Generation, hash-only applications, and digital signature verification (legacy use only). | Without cryptographic integrity protections, information can be altered by unauthorized users without detection.
To protect the integrity of the authenticator and authentication mechanism used... |
| V-81297 | High | The Central Log Server must be configured to enforce approved authorizations for logical access to information and system resources in accordance with applicable access control policies. | To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities that have been issued certificates by DoD-approved PKIs, all DoD systems (e.g., networks, web servers, and web... |
| V-81291 | High | The Central Log Server must obfuscate authentication information during the authentication process so that the authentication is not visible. | To prevent the compromise of authentication information such as passwords during the authentication process, the feedback from the information system must not provide any information that would... |
| V-81303 | High | The Central Log Server must implement NIST FIPS-validated cryptography for the following: to provision digital signatures; to generate cryptographic hashes; and/or to protect unclassified information requiring confidentiality and cryptographic protection. | FIPS 140-2 precludes the use of unvalidated cryptography for the cryptographic protection of sensitive or valuable data within Federal systems. Unvalidated cryptography is viewed by NIST as... |
| V-81301 | High | The Central Log Server must be configured to protect the confidentiality and integrity of transmitted information. | Without protection of the transmitted information, confidentiality and integrity may be compromised since unprotected communications can be intercepted and either read or altered.
This... |
| V-81105 | Medium | The Central Log Server must be configured to protect the data sent from hosts and devices from being altered in a way that may prevent the attribution of an action to an individual (or process acting on behalf of an individual). | Without non-repudiation, it is impossible to positively attribute an action to an individual (or process acting on behalf of an individual).
The records stored by the Central Log Server must be... |
| V-81187 | Medium | For devices and hosts within the scope of coverage, the Central Log Server must be configured to automatically aggregate events that indicate account actions. | If the Central Log Server is configured to filter or remove account log records transmitted by devices and hosts within its scope of coverage, forensic analysis tools will be less effective at... |
| V-81181 | Medium | The Central Log Server that aggregates log records from hosts and devices must be configured to use TCP for transmission. | If the default UDP protocol is used for communication between the hosts and devices to the Central Log Server, then log records that do not reach the log server are not detected as a data loss.... |
| V-81183 | Medium | The Central Log Server must be configured to notify the System Administrator (SA) and Information System Security Officer (ISSO), at a minimum, when an attack is detected on multiple devices and hosts within its scope of coverage. | Notification may be configured to be sent by the device, SNMP server, or Central Log Server. The best practice is for these notifications to be sent by a robust events management server.
This is... |
| V-81319 | Medium | The Central Log Server must disable accounts (individuals, groups, roles, and devices) after 35 days of inactivity. | Inactive identifiers pose a risk to systems and applications. Attackers that are able to exploit an inactive identifier can potentially obtain and maintain undetected access to the application.... |
| V-81129 | Medium | The Central Log Server must be configured to perform audit reduction that supports on-demand reporting requirements. | The ability to generate on-demand reports, including after the audit data has been subjected to audit reduction, greatly facilitates the organization's ability to generate incident reports as... |
| V-81313 | Medium | The Central Log Server must use multifactor authentication for local access using privileged user accounts. | To assure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, privileged users must utilize multifactor authentication to prevent potential misuse and compromise of the system.
Multifactor... |
| V-81315 | Medium | The Central Log Server must be configured to use multifactor authentication for network access to privileged accounts such that one of the factors is provided by a device separate from the system gaining access. | Using an authentication device, such as a CAC or token that is separate from the information system, ensures that even if the information system is compromised, that compromise will not affect... |
| V-81145 | Medium | The Central Log Server must be configured to off-load log records onto a different system or media than the system being audited. | Information stored in one location is vulnerable to accidental or incidental deletion or alteration.
Off-loading is a common process in information systems with limited audit storage capacity.... |
| V-81331 | Medium | For locally created accounts in the application, the Central Log Server must be configured to allow the use of a temporary password for system logons with an immediate change to a permanent password. | Without providing this capability, an account may be created without a password. Non-repudiation cannot be guaranteed once an account is created if a user is not forced to change the temporary... |
| V-81321 | Medium | The Central Log Server must be configured to enforce a minimum 15-character password length. | The shorter the password, the lower the number of possible combinations that need to be tested before the password is compromised.
Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the... |
| V-81317 | Medium | The Central Log Server must use FIPS-validated SHA-1 or higher hash function to provide replay-resistant authentication mechanisms for network access to privileged accounts. | A replay attack may enable an unauthorized user to gain access to the application. Authentication sessions between the authenticator and the application validating the user credentials must not be... |
| V-81189 | Medium | The Central Log Server must be configured with the organization-defined severity or criticality levels of each event that is being sent from individual devices or hosts. | This supports prioritization functions, which is a major reason why centralized management is a requirement in DoD. This includes different features that help highlight the important events over... |
| V-81307 | Medium | The Central Log Server must use multifactor authentication for network access to privileged user accounts. | Without the use of multifactor authentication, the ease of access to privileged functions is greatly increased.
Multifactor authentication requires using two or more factors to achieve... |
| V-81179 | Medium | The Central Log Server must be configured to retain the identity of the original source host or device where the event occurred as part of the log record. | In this case the information producer is the device based on IP address or some other identifier of the device producing the information. The source of the record must be bound to the record using... |
| V-81191 | Medium | Analysis, viewing, and indexing functions, services, and applications used as part of the Central Log Server must be configured to comply with DoD-trusted path and access requirements. | Analysis, viewing, and indexing functions, services, and applications, such as analysis tools and other vendor-provided applications, must be secured. Software used to perform additional... |
| V-81309 | Medium | The Central Log Server must use multifactor authentication for network access to non-privileged user accounts. | To assure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, non-privileged users must utilize multifactor authentication to prevent potential misuse and compromise of the system.
Multifactor... |
| V-81115 | Medium | The Central Log Server must be configured to retain the DoD-defined attributes of the log records sent by the devices and hosts. | Log records can be generated from various components within the application (e.g., process, module). Certain specific application functionalities may be audited as well. The list of audited events... |
| V-81111 | Medium | Where multiple log servers are installed in the enclave, each log server must be configured to aggregate log records to a central aggregation server or other consolidated events repository. | Log servers (e.g., syslog servers) are often used on network segments to consolidate from the devices and hosts on that network segment. However, this does not achieve compliance with the DoD... |
| V-81185 | Medium | The Central Log Server must be configured to automatically create trouble tickets for organization-defined threats and events of interest as they are detected in real time (within seconds). | In most Central Log Server products today, log review (threat detection), can be automated by creating correlation content matching the organizational-defined Events of Interest (e.g., account... |
| V-81327 | Medium | The Central Log Server must be configured to electronically verify the DoD CAC credential. | The use of PIV credentials facilitates standardization and reduces the risk of unauthorized access.
DoD has mandated the use of the CAC to support identity management and personal authentication... |
| V-81157 | Medium | The Central Log Server must be configured to perform audit reduction that supports on-demand audit review and analysis. | The ability to perform on-demand audit review and analysis, including after the audit data has been subjected to audit reduction, greatly facilitates the organization's ability to generate... |
| V-81323 | Medium | The Central Log Server must be configured to accept the DoD CAC credential to support identity management and personal authentication. | The use of PIV credentials facilitates standardization and reduces the risk of unauthorized access.
DoD has mandated the use of the CAC to support identity management and personal authentication... |
| V-81169 | Low | The Central Log Server must be configured to generate reports that do not alter original content or time ordering of log records. | If the audit report generation capability alters the original content or time ordering of log records, the integrity of the log records is compromised, and the records are no longer usable for... |
| V-81133 | Low | For devices and hosts within its scope of coverage, the Central Log Server must notify the System Administrator (SA) and Information System Security Officer (ISSO) when events indicating account disabling actions are received. | When application accounts are disabled, user accessibility is affected. Accounts are used for identifying individual users or for identifying the application processes themselves. Sending... |
| V-81123 | Low | The Central Log Server must be configured to use internal system clocks to generate time stamps for log records. | Without an internal clock used as the reference for the time stored on each event to provide a trusted common reference for the time, forensic analysis would be impeded. Determining the correct... |
| V-81165 | Low | The Central Log Server must be configured to generate reports that support after-the-fact investigations of security incidents. | If the report generation capability does not support after-the-fact investigations, it is difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack or... |
| V-81119 | Low | The Central Log Server must be configured to perform analysis of log records across multiple devices and hosts in the enclave that can be reviewed by authorized individuals. | Successful incident response and auditing relies on timely, accurate system information and analysis to allow the organization to identify and respond to potential incidents in a proficient... |
| V-81345 | Low | The Central Log Server must be configured to enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one numeric character be used. | Use of a complex password helps to increase the time and resources required to compromise the password. Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in... |
| V-81121 | Low | The Central Log Server must be configured to perform on-demand filtering of the log records for events of interest based on organization-defined criteria. | The ability to specify the event criteria that are of interest provides the persons reviewing the logs with the ability to quickly isolate and identify these events without having to review... |
| V-81163 | Low | The Central Log Server must be configured to generate reports that support on-demand reporting requirements. | The report generation capability must support on-demand reporting to facilitate the organization's ability to generate incident reports as needed to better handle larger-scale or more complex... |
| V-81161 | Low | The Central Log Server must be configured to generate on-demand audit review and analysis reports. | The report generation capability must support on-demand review and analysis to facilitate the organization's ability to generate incident reports as needed to better handle larger-scale or more... |
| V-81359 | Low | The Central Log Server must be configured to enforce a 60-day maximum password lifetime restriction. | Any password, no matter how complex, can eventually be cracked. Therefore, passwords need to be changed at specific intervals.
One method of minimizing this risk is to use complex passwords and... |
| V-81167 | Low | The Central Log Server must be configured to perform audit reduction that does not alter original content or time ordering of log records. | If the audit reduction capability alters the content or time ordering of log records, the integrity of the log records is compromised, and the records are no longer usable for forensic analysis.... |
| V-81355 | Low | The Central Log Server must be configured to enforce 24 hours/1 day as the minimum password lifetime. | Enforcing a minimum password lifetime helps prevent repeated password changes to defeat the password reuse or history enforcement requirement.
Restricting this setting limits the user's ability... |
| V-81159 | Low | The Central Log Server must be configured to perform audit reduction that supports after-the-fact investigations of security incidents. | If the audit reduction capability does not support after-the-fact investigations, it is difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack or identify... |
| V-81353 | Low | The Central Log Server must be configured to require the change of at least 8 of the total number of characters when passwords are changed. | If the application allows the user to consecutively reuse extensive portions of passwords, this increases the chances of password compromise by increasing the window of opportunity for attempts at... |
| V-81149 | Low | For the host and devices within its scope of coverage, the Central Log Server must be configured to send a real-time alert to the System Administrator (SA) and Information System Security Officer (ISSO) (at a minimum) of all audit failure events, such as loss of communications with hosts and devices, or if log records are no longer being received. | It is critical for the appropriate personnel to be aware if a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required. Without a real-time alert, security personnel may be unaware of an... |
| V-81107 | Low | The Central Log Server must be configured to aggregate log records from organization-defined devices and hosts within its scope of coverage. | If the application is not configured to collate records based on the time when the events occurred, the ability to perform forensic analysis and investigations across multiple components is... |
| V-81339 | Low | The Central Log Server must be configured to enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one lower-case character be used. | Use of a complex password helps to increase the time and resources required to compromise the password. Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in... |
| V-81337 | Low | The Central Log Server must be configured to enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one upper-case character be used. | Use of a complex password helps to increase the time and resources required to compromise the password. Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in... |
| V-81141 | Low | The Central Log Server must be configured to allow selection, capture, and view of all events related to a user session, host, or device when required by authorized users. | If the system is not configured to select a user session to capture and view or produce a report, investigations into suspicious or harmful events would be hampered by the volume of information... |
| V-81125 | Low | The Central Log Server must be configured to back up the log records repository at least every seven days onto a different system or system component other than the system or component being audited. | Protection of log data includes ensuring log data is not accidentally lost or deleted. Backing up log records to a different system or onto separate media than the system being audited on an... |
| V-81147 | Low | The Central Log Server must be configured to send an immediate alert to the System Administrator (SA) and Information System Security Officer (ISSO) (at a minimum) when allocated log record storage volume reaches 75 percent of the repository maximum log record storage capacity. | If security personnel are not notified immediately upon storage volume utilization reaching 75 percent, they are unable to plan for storage capacity expansion.
Although this may be part of the... |
| V-81143 | Low | The Central Log Server must be configured for centralized management of the events repository for the purposes of configuration, analysis, and reporting. | If the application is not configured to centrally manage the content captured in the log records, identification, troubleshooting, and correlation of suspicious behavior would be difficult and... |
| V-81131 | Low | For devices and hosts within its scope of coverage, the Central Log Server must be configured to notify the System Administrator (SA) and Information System Security Officer (ISSO) when account modification events are received. | When application accounts are modified, user accessibility is affected. Accounts are used for identifying individual users or for identifying the application processes themselves. Sending... |
| V-81139 | Low | The Central Log Server must be configured so changes made to the level and type of log records stored in the centralized repository must take effect immediately without the need to reboot or restart the application. | If authorized individuals do not have the ability to modify auditing parameters in response to a changing threat environment, the organization may not be able to respond effectively and important... |
| V-81349 | Low | The Central Log Server must be configured to enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one special character be used. | Use of a complex password helps to increase the time and resources required to compromise the password. Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in... |
| V-81127 | Low | The Central Log Server system backups must be stored on media capable of guaranteeing file integrity for a minimum of five years. | If backups are not properly processed, protected, and stored on appropriate media, recovery from a system failure or implementation of a contingency plan would not include the data necessary to... |
| V-81335 | Low | The Central Log Server must be configured to prohibit password reuse for a minimum of five generations. | Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute-force attacks.
To meet password policy requirements, passwords need... |
| V-81177 | Low | The Central Log Server must be configured to off-load interconnected systems in real time and off-load standalone systems weekly, at a minimum. | Information stored in one location is vulnerable to accidental or incidental deletion or alteration.
Off-loading is a common process in information systems with limited audit storage capacity.... |
| V-81363 | Low | The Central Log Server must map the authenticated identity to the individual user or group account for PKI-based authentication. | Without mapping the certificate used to authenticate to the user account, the ability to determine the identity of the individual user or group will not be available for forensic analysis. |
| V-81171 | Low | Upon receipt of the log record from hosts and devices, the Central Log Server must be configured to record time stamps of the time of receipt that can be mapped to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). | If time stamps are not consistently applied and there is no common time reference, it is difficult to perform forensic analysis.
Time stamps generated by the application include date and time.... |
| V-81173 | Low | The Central Log Server must be configured to record time stamps for when log records are received by the log server that meet a granularity of one second for a minimum degree of precision. | Without sufficient granularity of time stamps, it is not possible to adequately determine the chronological order of records.
Time stamps generated by the application include date and time.... |
| V-81109 | Low | Time stamps recorded on the log records in the Central Log Server must be configured to synchronize to within one second of the host server or, if NTP is configured directly in the log server, the NTP time source must be the same as the host and devices within its scope of coverage. | If the application is not configured to collate records based on the time when the events occurred, the ability to perform forensic analysis and investigations across multiple components is... |
| V-81117 | Low | The Central Log Server must be configured to allow only the Information System Security Manager (ISSM) (or individuals or roles appointed by the ISSM) to select which auditable events are to be retained. | Without restricting which roles and individuals can select which events are audited, unauthorized personnel may be able to prevent the auditing of critical events. Misconfigured audits may degrade... |
| V-81113 | Low | The Central Log Server log records must be configured to use the syslog protocol or another industry standard format (e.g., Windows event protocol) that can be used by typical analysis tools. | Without a standardized format for log records, the ability to perform forensic analysis may be more difficult. Standardization facilitates production of event information that can be more readily... |
| V-81155 | Low | The Central Log Server must be configured to perform on-demand searches of log records for events of interest based on the content of organization-defined audit fields within log records. | The ability to search the log records to better view events of interest provides the persons reviewing the logs with the ability to quickly isolate and identify these events without having to... |
| V-81153 | Low | The Central Log Server must be configured to perform on-demand sorting of log records for events of interest based on the content of organization-defined audit fields within log records. | The ability to sort the log records to better view events of interest provides the persons reviewing the logs with the ability to quickly isolate and identify these events without having to review... |
| V-81151 | Low | The Central Log Server must be configured to send an immediate alert to the System Administrator (SA) or Information System Security Officer (ISSO) if communication with the host and devices within its scope of coverage is lost. | If the system were to continue processing after audit failure, actions could be taken on the system that could not be tracked and recorded for later forensic analysis. To perform this function,... |
| V-81137 | Low | The System Administrator (SA) and Information System Security Manager (ISSM) must configure the retention of the log records based on criticality level, event type, and/or retention period, at a minimum. | If authorized individuals do not have the ability to modify auditing parameters in response to a changing threat environment, the organization may not be able to respond effectively and important... |
| V-81135 | Low | For devices and hosts within its scope of coverage, the Central Log Server must notify the System Administrator (SA) and Information System Security Officer (ISSO) when events indicating account removal actions are received. | When application accounts are removed, user accessibility is affected. Accounts are used for identifying users or for identifying the application processes themselves. Sending notification of... |
