The firewall implementation must produce application log records containing sufficient information to establish the source of the event.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-37349	SRG-NET-999999-FW-000179	SV-49110r1_rule		Medium

Description
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. If the originator of the log record is not recorded, it will be difficult to establish and correlate the series of events leading up to an outage or attack.

STIG	Date
Firewall Security Requirements Guide	2013-04-24

Details

Check Text ( C-45596r1_chk )
Examine the firewall centralized application event log. View entries for several alerts. Verify the events in the logs show the source of the events (e.g., IP address, session or packet ID). If the firewall application log does not include the source of the event, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-42274r1_fix)
Configure the firewall implementation to capture the source of each event (e.g., IP address, session or packet ID).