Critical alerts must be generated and notifications sent to authorized personnel regardless if the person is logged in.

From Firewall Security Technical Implementation Guide

Part of FA is not informed of critical alerts.

Associated with IA controls: ECSC-1, ECAR-3, ECAR-2, ECAR-1

SV-15274r2_rule Critical alerts must be generated and notifications sent to authorized personnel regardless if the person is logged in.

Vulnerability discussion

By immediately displaying an alarm message, identifying the potential security violation and making it accessible with the audit record contents associated with the event(s) that generated the alarm provides the administration staff prompt alert messages, regardless if the person is logged into the system.

Check content

Review the firewall configuration to determine what alerts have been defined and how the notifications are performed. If the firewall doesn't have the proper alerts defined, this is a finding.

Fix text

Configure the firewall to immediately notify authorized personnel of critical alerts.

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