The firewall implementation must be capable of taking organizationally defined actions upon audit failure.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
SRG-NET-000089-FW-000061	SRG-NET-000089-FW-000061	SRG-NET-000089-FW-000061_rule		Low

Description
Auditing of account use and user actions is a critical part of the security architecture. Auditable events must be logged. If the firewall becomes unable to write events to the audit log, this is known as an audit processing failure. Audit processing failures include software and hardware errors, failures in the audit capturing mechanisms, and audit storage capacity being reached or exceeded. To preserve recent audit information, if an audit failure occurs, the firewall implementation must perform one of the following actions: stop producing audit records; overwrite older records; or purge the oldest records. The specific action configured must be defined by organizational policy.

Description

Auditing of account use and user actions is a critical part of the security architecture. Auditable events must be logged. If the firewall becomes unable to write events to the audit log, this is known as an audit processing failure. Audit processing failures include software and hardware errors, failures in the audit capturing mechanisms, and audit storage capacity being reached or exceeded. To preserve recent audit information, if an audit failure occurs, the firewall implementation must perform one of the following actions: stop producing audit records; overwrite older records; or purge the oldest records. The specific action configured must be defined by organizational policy.

STIG	Date
Firewall Security Requirements Guide	2012-12-10

Details

Check Text ( C-SRG-NET-000089-FW-000061_chk )
Review the firewall configuration to determine if specific actions, as defined by the organization, are taken when an audit process fails. If specific actions are not taken upon audit failure, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-SRG-NET-000089-FW-000061_fix)
Configure the firewall implementation to take specific actions, as defined by the organization, when an audit process fails.