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The Cisco IOS XE router must provide audit record generation capability for DoD-defined auditable events within the router.


Overview

Finding ID Version Rule ID IA Controls Severity
V-73981 CISR-ND-000023 SV-88655r2_rule Low
Description
Without the capability to generate audit records, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an incident or identify those responsible for one. Audit records can be generated from various components within the network device (e.g., process, module). Certain specific device functionalities may be audited as well. The list of audited events is the set of events for which audits are to be generated. This set of events is typically a subset of the list of all events for which the system is capable of generating audit records. DoD has defined the list of events for which the device will provide an audit record generation capability as the following: (i) Successful and unsuccessful attempts to access, modify, or delete privileges, security objects, security levels, or categories of information (e.g., classification levels); (ii) Access actions, such as successful and unsuccessful logon attempts, privileged activities or other system level access, starting and ending time for user access to the system, concurrent logons from different workstations, successful and unsuccessful accesses to objects, all program initiations, and all direct access to the information system; and (iii) All account creation, modification, disabling, and termination actions.
STIG Date
Cisco IOS XE Release 3 NDM Security Technical Implementation Guide 2018-12-20

Details

Check Text ( C-74063r3_chk )
Verify that the Cisco IOS XE router is generating audit records.

The configuration should look similar to the example below:

logging userinfo
login on-failure log
login on-success log

archive
log config
logging enable
logging size 1000
notify syslog contenttype plaintext
hidekeys

If audit records are not being generated, this is a finding.
Fix Text (F-80521r2_fix)
Enter the following commands to enable auditing:

logging userinfo
login on-failure log
login on-success log

archive
log config
logging enable
logging size 1000
notify syslog contenttype plaintext
hidekeys