The MQ Appliance network device must back up audit records at least every seven days onto a different system or system component than the system or component being audited.

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

Associated with: CCI-001348

SV-89613r1_rule The MQ Appliance network device must back up audit records at least every seven days onto a different system or system component than the system or component being audited.

Vulnerability discussion

Protection of log data includes assuring log data is not accidentally lost or deleted. Regularly backing up audit records to a different system or onto separate media than the system being audited helps to assure, in the event of a catastrophic system failure, the audit records will be retained. This helps to ensure a compromise of the information system being audited does not also result in a compromise of the audit records. Using a syslog logging target, the MQ Appliance logs audit events, including the continuous backup of audit records. 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.

Check content

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 of log targets includes an appropriate syslog notification target; - The log target is enabled; and - It includes all desired log event source and log level parameters, e.g., event audit debug. If any of these conditions is not true, this is a finding.

Fix text

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

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