The Cisco switch 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-220580	CISC-ND-000280	SV-220580r960894_rule		Medium

Description

It is essential for security personnel to know what is being done, what was attempted, where it was done, when it was done, and by whom it was done to compile an accurate risk assessment. Logging the date and time of each detected event provides a means of investigating an attack, recognizing resource utilization or capacity thresholds, or identifying an improperly configured network device. To establish and correlate the series of events leading up to an outage or attack, it is imperative the date and time are recorded in all log records.

STIG	Date
Cisco IOS Switch NDM Security Technical Implementation Guide	2025-05-19

Details

Check Text (C-22295r507786_chk)

Verify that the switch is configured to include the date and time on all log records as shown in the configuration example below:

service timestamps log datetime localtime

If time stamps are not configured, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-22284r507787_fix)

Configure the switch to include the date and time on all log records as shown in the example below:

SW1(config)#service timestamps log datetime localtime