The IDPS must assign a critical severity level to all audit processing failures.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-55329	SRG-NET-000335-IDPS-00223	SV-69575r1_rule		Medium

Description
It is critical that when the IDPS is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required, it takes action to mitigate the failure Audit processing failures include: software/hardware errors; failures in the audit capturing mechanisms; and audit storage capacity being reached or exceeded. Since action must be taken immediately, these messages will be designated as a critical severity level and this level must be sent as part of the alert message.

Description

It is critical that when the IDPS is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required, it takes action to mitigate the failure Audit processing failures include: software/hardware errors; failures in the audit capturing mechanisms; and audit storage capacity being reached or exceeded. Since action must be taken immediately, these messages will be designated as a critical severity level and this level must be sent as part of the alert message.

STIG	Date
Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDPS) Security Requirements Guide	2015-06-26

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