CISC-RT-000210 - The Cisco switch must be configured to produce audit records containing information to establish where the events occurred.

Information

Without establishing where 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, it is essential for security personnel to know where events occurred, such as switch components, modules, device identifiers, node names, and functionality.

Associating information about where the event occurred within the network provides a means of investigating an attack, recognizing resource utilization or capacity thresholds, or identifying an improperly configured switch.

Solution

Configure the switch to log events containing information to establish where the events occurred as shown in the example below:

SW1(config)#ip access-list extended INGRESS_FILTER
...
...
...
SW1(config-ext-nacl)#deny ip any any log-input

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_Cisco_IOS-XE_Switch_Y24M07_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

References: 800-53|AU-3, CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000132, Rule-ID|SV-221004r622190_rule, STIG-ID|CISC-RT-000210, STIG-Legacy|SV-110829, STIG-Legacy|V-101725, Vuln-ID|V-221004

Plugin: Cisco

Control ID: 1f4b90bf2bb62bd9f01d9f3a2084132b6242179b62247e4a5d0e8fec9be0c070