The Cisco IOS XE router must produce audit log records containing sufficient information to establish what type of event occurred.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-73989	CISR-ND-000027	SV-88663r2_rule		Low

Description

It is essential for security personnel to know what is being done, what was attempted, where it was done, when it was done, and by whom it was done in order to compile an accurate risk assessment. 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 network device. Without this capability, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack.

STIG	Date
Cisco IOS XE Release 3 NDM Security Technical Implementation Guide	2018-12-20

Details

Check Text ( C-74071r3_chk )
Verify that logging is properly configured on the Cisco IOS XE router. The configuration will look similar to the example below: archive log config logging enable logging size 1000 notify syslog contenttype plaintext hidekeys If logging is not configured to produce audit log records containing sufficient information to establish what type of event occurred, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-80529r3_fix)
Enter the following commands to enable auditing. The configuration will look similar to the example below: archive log config logging enable logging size 1000 notify syslog contenttype plaintext hidekeys