The firewall implementation must produce application event log records that contain sufficient information to establish what type of event occurred.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-37346	SRG-NET-999999-FW-000176	SV-49107r1_rule		Medium

Description
Associating event types with detected events in the firewall application logs provides a means of investigating an attack, recognizing resource utilization or capacity thresholds, or identifying an improperly configured firewall. Without this capability, it is difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack.

STIG	Date
Firewall Security Requirements Guide	2013-04-24

Details

Check Text ( C-45629r1_chk )
Examine the aggregated firewall application log on the management console. View entries for several alerts. Verify the events being captured in the application logs include the type or category of the events. If the firewall application log does not include the type or category of events, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-42271r1_fix)
Configure the firewall implementation application log to capture the type or category of each event.