The network device must centralize the review and analysis of audit records from multiple network devices within the network.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
SRG-NET-000091-NDM-000062	SRG-NET-000091-NDM-000062	SRG-NET-000091-NDM-000062_rule		Low

Description
Auditing of account use and user actions is a critical part of the security architecture. Auditable events must be logged. If the network device 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. In order to determine what is happening within the network infrastructure or to resolve and trace an attack, it is imperative that the log data from multiple network devices be correlated to gain a clear understanding of what happened or is happening.

Description

Auditing of account use and user actions is a critical part of the security architecture. Auditable events must be logged. If the network device 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. In order to determine what is happening within the network infrastructure or to resolve and trace an attack, it is imperative that the log data from multiple network devices be correlated to gain a clear understanding of what happened or is happening.

STIG	Date
Network Device Management Security Requirements Guide	2013-07-30

Details

Check Text ( C-SRG-NET-000091-NDM-000062_chk )
Verify the network device is configured to transmit audit records information to a central repository. If the network device is not configured to transmit audit records information to a central repository, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-SRG-NET-000091-NDM-000062_fix)
Configure the network device to transmit audit records information to a central repository.