V-283777

Discussion

It is critical for the appropriate personnel to be aware if a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required. Without a real-time alert, security personnel may be unaware of an impending failure of the audit capability, and system operation may be adversely affected. Alerts provide organizations with urgent messages. Real-time alerts provide these messages immediately (i.e., the time from event detection to alert occurs in seconds or less).

Check Content

Verify the external syslog server is configured and online, as shown in the example below:

- show log syslog
# show log syslog

Syslog Target Hosts

Syslog Name
Id     Ip Address                                      Port        Sev Level
         Below Level Drop                                Facility    Prefix
           TLS Profile

1
1      1.1.1.1                                         514         info
         0                                               local7      yes

Verify syslog operation by a configuration change and verify the syslog server has received the entry. 

If the syslog server does not receive the configuration change, this is a finding.

If an immediate alert of all audit failure events requiring real-time alerts is not generated, this is a finding.