| Centrally logging the firewall information provides a central location to store, view, analyze, and produce detailed reports on alerts. 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.
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. |
