The Central Log Server must be configured to perform audit reduction that supports on-demand audit review and analysis.
Overview
Finding ID
Version
Rule ID
IA Controls
Severity
V-206497
SRG-APP-000364-AU-000190
SV-206497r961413_rule
Medium
Description
The ability to perform on-demand audit review and analysis, including after the audit data has been subjected to audit reduction, greatly facilitates the organization's ability to generate incident reports as needed to better handle larger-scale or more complex security incidents.
Audit reduction is a technique used to reduce the volume of log records to facilitate a manual review. Audit reduction does not alter original log records. The report generation capability provided by the application must support on-demand (i.e., customizable, ad hoc, and as-needed) reports.
This requirement is specific to applications with audit reduction capabilities; however, applications need to support on-demand audit review and analysis.