The ALG must produce audit records containing information to establish when (date and time) the events occurred.
Overview
Finding ID
Version
Rule ID
IA Controls
Severity
V-204929
SRG-NET-000075-ALG-000044
SV-204929r395922_rule
Medium
Description
Without establishing when events occurred, it is impossible to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack.
In order to compile an accurate risk assessment, and provide forensic analysis of network traffic patterns, it is essential for security personnel to know when flow control events occurred within the infrastructure.
Associating event types with detected events in the network audit logs provides a means of investigating an attack, recognizing resource utilization or capacity thresholds, or identifying an improperly configured network element.
This requirement does not apply to audit logs generated on behalf of the device itself (management).