The network element must compile audit records from multiple components into a system-wide audit trail that is time-correlated to within an organizationally defined level of tolerance for the relationship between timestamps of individual records in the audit trail.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
SRG-NET-000110-FW-NA	SRG-NET-000110-FW-NA	SRG-NET-000110-FW-NA_rule		Low

Description
Auditing and logging are key components of any security architecture. It is essential for security personnel to know what is being performed on the system, where an event occurred, when an event occurred, and by whom the event was triggered, in order to compile an accurate risk assessment. Logging the actions of specific events provides a means to investigate an attack, recognize resource utilization or capacity thresholds, or to simply identify an improperly configured firewall. The audited events must be time correlated to within the organizationally defined level of tolerance, in order to conduct accurate forensic analysis of the events. Audit aggregation should be performed on the firewall application audit log on the organization's central log server, thus this is not a function performed by the firewall itself.

Description

Auditing and logging are key components of any security architecture. It is essential for security personnel to know what is being performed on the system, where an event occurred, when an event occurred, and by whom the event was triggered, in order to compile an accurate risk assessment. Logging the actions of specific events provides a means to investigate an attack, recognize resource utilization or capacity thresholds, or to simply identify an improperly configured firewall. The audited events must be time correlated to within the organizationally defined level of tolerance, in order to conduct accurate forensic analysis of the events. Audit aggregation should be performed on the firewall application audit log on the organization's central log server, thus this is not a function performed by the firewall itself.

STIG	Date
Firewall Security Requirements Guide	2012-12-10

Details

Check Text ( C-SRG-NET-000110-FW-NA_chk )
This requirement is NA for firewall. No fix required.

Fix Text (F-SRG-NET-000110-FW-NA_fix)
This requirement is NA for firewall. No fix required.