The Cisco IOS XE router must produce audit log records containing sufficient information to establish what type of event occurred.

From Cisco IOS XE Release 3 NDM Security Technical Implementation Guide

Associated with: CCI-000130

SV-88663r2_rule The Cisco IOS XE router must produce audit log records containing sufficient information to establish what type of event 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. Associating event types with detected events in the application and audit logs provides a means of investigating an attack; recognizing resource utilization or capacity thresholds; or identifying an improperly configured network device. Without this capability, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack.

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Verify that logging is properly configured on the Cisco IOS XE 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 log records containing sufficient information to establish what type of event 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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