The DataPower Gateway must provide an immediate real-time alert to, at a minimum, the SCA and ISSO, of all audit failure events where the detection and/or prevention function is unable to write events to either local storage or the centralized server.

From IBM DataPower ALG Security Technical Implementation Guide

Associated with: CCI-001858

SV-79751r1_rule The DataPower Gateway must provide an immediate real-time alert to, at a minimum, the SCA and ISSO, of all audit failure events where the detection and/or prevention function is unable to write events to either local storage or the centralized server.

Vulnerability discussion

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).This does not apply to audit logs generated on behalf of the device itself (management).

Check content

Examine configuration of Log targets (type “Log Target” in navigation search box) to verify a target that delivers Critical messages. If no log targets are configured, this is a finding.

Fix text

Log Target to send all Critical log messages to the desired destination. Search Bar “Log Target” >> Add >> Name log target name >> Target Type “SOAP” >> URL dest url Event Subscriptions tab >> Add >> Event Category “all” >> Minimum Event Priority “critical”

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