The Cisco IOS XE router must produce audit records containing information to establish when (date and time) the events occurred.

From Cisco IOS XE Release 3 NDM Security Technical Implementation Guide

Associated with: CCI-000131

SV-88665r2_rule The Cisco IOS XE router must produce audit records containing information to establish when (date and time) the events occurred.

Vulnerability discussion

It is essential for security personnel to know what is being done, what was attempted, where it was done, when it was done, and by whom it was done in order to compile an accurate risk assessment. Logging the date and time of each detected event provides a means of investigating an attack; recognizing resource utilization or capacity thresholds; or identifying an improperly configured network device. In order to establish and correlate the series of events leading up to an outage or attack, it is imperative the date and time are recorded in all log records.

Check content

Verify that logging is properly configured on the Cisco IOS XE router. The configuration will look similar to the example below: service timestamps log datetime If time stamps is not configured, this is a finding.

Fix text

Enter the following commands to enable time stamps for auditing: service timestamps log datetime

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