The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must provide an immediate real-time alert to appropriate support staff of all audit failure events requiring real-time alerts.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-69001	PPS9-00-008100	SV-83605r1_rule		Medium

Description
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 impending failure of the audit capability, and system operation may be adversely affected. The appropriate support staff include, at a minimum, the ISSO and the DBA/SA. Alerts provide organizations with urgent messages. Real-time alerts provide these messages immediately (i.e., the time from event detection to alert occurs in seconds or less).

Description

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 impending failure of the audit capability, and system operation may be adversely affected. The appropriate support staff include, at a minimum, the ISSO and the DBA/SA. Alerts provide organizations with urgent messages. Real-time alerts provide these messages immediately (i.e., the time from event detection to alert occurs in seconds or less).

STIG	Date
EDB Postgres Advanced Server Security Technical Implementation Guide	2017-02-28

Details

Check Text ( C-69473r1_chk )
Review the system documentation to determine which audit failure events require real-time alerts. Review Postgres Enterprise Manager (PEM) alert settings. If the real-time alerting that is specified in the documentation is not enabled, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-75185r1_fix)
Install PEM and configure audit failure event alerting as documented here: http://www.enterprisedb.com/docs/en/5.0/pemgetstarted/PEM_Getting_Started_Guide.1.28.html An example for creating an alert that ensure the audit directory does not fill up is included below, using the thin client (browser) PEM interface. Refer also to the Supplemental Procedures document, supplied with this STIG. Open the PEM web console in a browser - Log in - Click on the agent for the machine to be monitored - Select "Management \| Probe Configuration" - Select "Disk Space" and set the check interval as you like - Select "Management \| Alerting" - Name the definition "Audit Log Full" - Select Template "Disk Consumption Percentage" - Set Frequency, Comparison Operator, and Thresholds (1 minute, >, 95/96/97 for example) - Enter the Mount Point for where the audit log is - Click Notification tab - Click Email all alerts - Click "Execute Script" on Monitored Server

Fix Text (F-75185r1_fix)

Install PEM and configure audit failure event alerting as documented here: http://www.enterprisedb.com/docs/en/5.0/pemgetstarted/PEM_Getting_Started_Guide.1.28.html

An example for creating an alert that ensure the audit directory does not fill up is included below, using the thin client (browser) PEM interface. Refer also to the Supplemental Procedures document, supplied with this STIG.

Open the PEM web console in a browser

- Log in
- Click on the agent for the machine to be monitored
- Select "Management | Probe Configuration"
- Select "Disk Space" and set the check interval as you like
- Select "Management | Alerting"
- Name the definition "Audit Log Full"
- Select Template "Disk Consumption Percentage"
- Set Frequency, Comparison Operator, and Thresholds (1 minute, >,
95/96/97 for example)
- Enter the Mount Point for where the audit log is
- Click Notification tab
- Click Email all alerts
- Click "Execute Script" on Monitored Server