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The network device must employ automated mechanisms to assist in the tracking of security incidents.


Overview

Finding ID Version Rule ID IA Controls Severity
SRG-NET-000170-NDM-000129 SRG-NET-000170-NDM-000129 SRG-NET-000170-NDM-000129_rule Medium
Description
Despite the investment in perimeter defense technologies, enclaves are still faced with detecting, analyzing, and remediating network breaches and exploits that have made it past the network device. An automated incident response infrastructure allows network operations to immediately react to incidents by identifying, analyzing, and mitigating any network or the network device compromise. Incident response teams can perform root cause analysis, determine how the exploit proliferated, and identify all affected nodes, as well as contain and eliminate the threat. The network device assists in the tracking of security incidents by logging detected security events. The audit log and network device application logs capture different types of events. The audit log tracks audit events occurring on the components of the network device. The application log tracks the results of the network device content filtering function. These logs must be aggregated unto a centralized server and can be used as part of the organization's security incident tracking and analysis.
STIG Date
Network Device Management Security Requirements Guide 2013-07-30

Details

Check Text ( C-SRG-NET-000170-NDM-000129_chk )
Review the network device configuration. Verify the audit and application logs are enabled and configured to capture detected security events.

If the audit and application logs are not enabled and configured to record detected security events, this is a finding.
Fix Text (F-SRG-NET-000170-NDM-000129_fix)
Configure the network device audit and application logs to capture detected security events.