In the event that communications with the events server is lost, the Juniper SRX Services Gateway must continue to queue log records locally.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-229023	JUSX-DM-000061	SV-229023r997562_rule		Medium

Description
It is critical that when the network device is at risk of failing to process logs as required, it take action to mitigate the failure. Log processing failures include: software/hardware errors; failures in the log capturing mechanisms; and audit storage capacity being reached or exceeded. Responses to log failure depend upon the nature of the failure mode. Since availability is an overriding concern given the role of the Juniper SRX in the enterprise, the system must not be configured to shut down in the event of a log processing failure. The system will be configured to log events to local files, which will provide a log backup. If communication with the Syslog server is lost or the server fails, the network device must continue to queue log records locally. Upon restoration of the connection to the centralized collection server, action should be taken to synchronize the local log data with the collection server. A best practice is to add log-prefixes to the log file names to help in researching the events and filters to prevent log overload. Another best practice is to add a match condition to limit the recorded events to those containing the regular expression (REGEX). Thus, the Juniper SRX will inherently and continuously capture events to local files to guard against the loss of connectivity to the primary and secondary events server.

Description

It is critical that when the network device is at risk of failing to process logs as required, it take action to mitigate the failure. Log processing failures include: software/hardware errors; failures in the log capturing mechanisms; and audit storage capacity being reached or exceeded. Responses to log failure depend upon the nature of the failure mode. Since availability is an overriding concern given the role of the Juniper SRX in the enterprise, the system must not be configured to shut down in the event of a log processing failure. The system will be configured to log events to local files, which will provide a log backup. If communication with the Syslog server is lost or the server fails, the network device must continue to queue log records locally. Upon restoration of the connection to the centralized collection server, action should be taken to synchronize the local log data with the collection server. A best practice is to add log-prefixes to the log file names to help in researching the events and filters to prevent log overload. Another best practice is to add a match condition to limit the recorded events to those containing the regular expression (REGEX). Thus, the Juniper SRX will inherently and continuously capture events to local files to guard against the loss of connectivity to the primary and secondary events server.

STIG	Date
Juniper SRX SG NDM Security Technical Implementation Guide	2024-06-10

Details

Check Text ( C-31338r518245_chk )
Verify logging has been enabled and configured to capture to local log files in case connection with the primary and secondary log servers is lost. [edit] show system syslog If local log files are not configured to capture events, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-31315r997561_fix)
The following example commands configure local backup files to capture DOD-defined auditable events. [edit] set system syslog file messages any info set system syslog file messages authorization none set system syslog file messages interactive-commands none set system syslog file messages daemon none set system syslog file User-Auth authorization any set system syslog file interactive-commands interactive-commands any set system syslog file processes daemon any set system syslog file account-actions change-log any any set file account-actions match "system login user" set system syslog console any any

Fix Text (F-31315r997561_fix)

The following example commands configure local backup files to capture DOD-defined auditable events.

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set system syslog file messages any info
set system syslog file messages authorization none
set system syslog file messages interactive-commands none
set system syslog file messages daemon none
set system syslog file User-Auth authorization any
set system syslog file interactive-commands interactive-commands any
set system syslog file processes daemon any
set system syslog file account-actions change-log any any
set file account-actions match "system login user"
set system syslog console any any