The MQ Appliance network device must alert the Information System Security Officer (ISSO) and System Administrator (SA) (at a minimum) in the event of an audit processing failure.

From IBM MQ Appliance v9.0 NDM Security Technical Implementation Guide

Part of SRG-APP-000108-NDM-000232

Associated with: CCI-000139

SV-89611r1_rule The MQ Appliance network device must alert the Information System Security Officer (ISSO) and System Administrator (SA) (at a minimum) in the event of an audit processing failure.

Vulnerability 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 this notification, the security personnel may be unaware of an impending failure of the audit capability and system operation may be adversely affected. Audit processing failures include software/hardware errors, failures in the audit capturing mechanisms, and audit storage capacity being reached or exceeded. Using a syslog logging target, the MQ Appliance logs audit events, including audit processing failures. Logging may be set to the following logging levels in descending order of criticality: debug, info, notice, warn, error, alert, emerg. The default is notice. The MQ appliance is configured to create the event in the logs that will be used to send an alert. The alerting process must be performed by a third-party alerting utility, centralized log management, or SIEM.

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Log on to the MQ Appliance CLI as a privileged user. Enter: co show logging target All configured logging targets will be displayed. Verify: - This list includes a remote syslog notification target; and - It includes all desired log event source and log level parameters: event audit info event auth notice event mgmt notice event cli notice event user notice event system error Configuring notification of events occurring at the external logging server is the responsibility of the administrator. Ask the system admin to provide evidence the required alert triggers for the following event codes: 0x80c0006a, 0x82400067, 0x00330034, 0x80400080 have been set up and the ISSO and SA at a minimum are alerted. If there is no evidence that alerts are sent in the event of an audit processing failure, this is a finding.

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Log on to the MQ Appliance CLI as a privileged user. Configure a syslog target. To enter global configuration mode, enter "config". To create a syslog target, enter: logging target type syslog admin-state enabled local-address remote-address remote-port event audit info event auth notice event mgmt notice event cli notice event user notice event system error exit write mem y At the syslog server, set up event notification triggers for the following event codes: 0x80c0006a, 0x82400067, 0x00330034, 0x80400080.

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