Applications themselves, or the logging mechanism the application utilizes, must provide a warning when allocated audit record storage volume reaches an organization-defined percentage of maximum audit record storage capacity.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-35294	SRG-APP-000103-MAPP-NA	SV-46581r1_rule		Medium

Description
It is critical for the appropriate personnel to be aware if a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required. Audit processing failures include: software/hardware errors, failures in the audit capturing mechanisms, and audit storage capacity being reached or exceeded. If audit log capacity were to be exceeded then events subsequently occurring will not be recorded. Organizations shall define a maximum allowable percentage of storage capacity serving as an alarming threshold (e.g. application has exceeded 80 % of log storage capacity allocated) at which time the application or the logging mechanism the application utilizes will provide a warning to the appropriate personnel. Rationale for non-applicability: The mobile operating system is best positioned to provide support for central management of audit records. Local applications can write to the local system log. It is significantly more difficult for a system administrator to manage storage limitations on an application-by-application basis. Permitting application-specific logs is more likely to result in unreviewed audit records relative to having applications leverage device system logs.

Description

It is critical for the appropriate personnel to be aware if a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required. Audit processing failures include: software/hardware errors, failures in the audit capturing mechanisms, and audit storage capacity being reached or exceeded. If audit log capacity were to be exceeded then events subsequently occurring will not be recorded. Organizations shall define a maximum allowable percentage of storage capacity serving as an alarming threshold (e.g. application has exceeded 80 % of log storage capacity allocated) at which time the application or the logging mechanism the application utilizes will provide a warning to the appropriate personnel. Rationale for non-applicability: The mobile operating system is best positioned to provide support for central management of audit records. Local applications can write to the local system log. It is significantly more difficult for a system administrator to manage storage limitations on an application-by-application basis. Permitting application-specific logs is more likely to result in unreviewed audit records relative to having applications leverage device system logs.

STIG	Date
Mobile Application Security Requirements Guide	2013-01-04

Details

Check Text ( C-43663r1_chk )
This requirement is NA for the MAPP SRG.

Fix Text (F-39840r1_fix)
The requirement is NA. No fix is required.