The IDPS must protect audit tools from unauthorized modification.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-34580	SRG-NET-000102-IDPS-00075	SV-45438r1_rule		Medium

Description
Auditing of account use and user actions is a critical part of the security architecture. Auditable events must be logged. If the IDPS 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. It is imperative the auditing tools are secured and can only be accessed by authorized personnel.

Description

Auditing of account use and user actions is a critical part of the security architecture. Auditable events must be logged. If the IDPS 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. It is imperative the auditing tools are secured and can only be accessed by authorized personnel.

STIG	Date
Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDPS) Security Requirements Guide	2012-11-19

Details

Check Text ( C-42787r1_chk )
Verify only authorized system administrators have permission to modify audit tools. If users who are not authorized IDPS administrators have permission to modify the audit tools, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-38835r1_fix)
Configure the IDPS permissions and groups so only authorized system administrators have permission to modify audit tools and functionality installed on the IDPS and components.