The IDPS must produce sensor log records containing sufficient information to establish the source of the event.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
SRG-NET-000077-IDPS-000080	SRG-NET-000077-IDPS-000080	SRG-NET-000077-IDPS-000080_rule		Medium

Description
It is essential for security personnel to know what is being done, what attempted to be done, when and by whom 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 IDPS. 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.

Description

It is essential for security personnel to know what is being done, what attempted to be done, when and by whom 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 IDPS. 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
IDPS Security Requirements Guide (SRG)	2012-03-08

Details

Check Text ( C-43208_chk )
Examine the IDPS centralized log on the management console. 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 log events do not include the source of the events, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-43208_fix)
Configure the sensors to capture the source of each event (e.g., IP address, session or packet ID).