The Cisco ISR 4000 Series router must produce audit records containing information to establish where the events occurred.

From Cisco IOS XE Release 3 NDM Security Technical Implementation Guide

Associated with: CCI-000132

SV-88667r1_rule The Cisco ISR 4000 Series router must produce audit records containing information to establish where the events occurred.

Vulnerability discussion

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 device hardware components, device software modules, session identifiers, filenames, host names, and functionality.Associating information about where the event occurred within the network device provides a means of investigating an attack; recognizing resource utilization or capacity thresholds; or identifying an improperly configured device.

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Verify that logging is properly configured on the Cisco ISR 4000 Series router. The configuration will look similar to the example below: archive log config logging enable logging size 1000 notify syslog contenttype plaintext hidekeys If logging is not configured to produce audit records containing information to establish where the events occurred, this is a finding.

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Enter the following commands to enable auditing. The configuration will look similar to the example below: archive log config logging enable logging size 1000 notify syslog contenttype plaintext hidekeys

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