The VMM must produce audit records containing information to establish what type of events occurred.
Overview
Finding ID
Version
Rule ID
IA Controls
Severity
V-207352
SRG-OS-000037-VMM-000150
SV-207352r958412_rule
Medium
Description
Without establishing what types of events occurred, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack.
Audit record content that may be necessary to satisfy this requirement includes, for example, time stamps, source and destination addresses, user/process/VM identifiers, event descriptions, success/fail indications, filenames involved, and access control or flow control rules invoked.
Associating event types with detected events in the VMM audit logs provides a means of investigating an attack; recognizing resource utilization or capacity thresholds; or identifying an improperly configured VMM.