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If communication with the central audit server is lost, the firewall must generate a real-time alert to, at a minimum, the SCA and ISSO.

Overview

Finding IDVersionRule IDIA ControlsSeverity
V-206700SRG-NET-000335-FW-000017SV-206700r855863_ruleCCI-001858medium
Description
Without a real-time alert (less than a second), security personnel may be unaware of an impending failure of the audit functions and system operation may be adversely impacted. Alerts provide organizations with urgent messages. Automated alerts can be conveyed in a variety of ways, including via a regularly monitored console, telephonically, via electronic mail, via text message, or via websites. Log processing failures include software/hardware errors, failures in the log capturing mechanisms, and log storage capacity being reached or exceeded. Most firewalls use UDP to send audit records to the server and cannot tell if the server has received the transmission, thus the site should either implement a connection-oriented communications solution (e.g., TCP) or implement a heartbeat with the central audit server and send an alert if it is unreachable.
STIGDate
Firewall Security Requirements Guide2024-12-04

Related Frameworks

1 mapping across 3 frameworks
SCF0 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 3 hops (1) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

MON-05.1Real-Time Alerts of Event Logging Failure
0.50
NIST 800-530 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 2 hops (22) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

AC-2(4)Automated Audit Actions
1.00
AU-12Audit Record Generation
1.00
AU-14(1)System Start-up
1.00
AU-3Content of Audit Records
1.00
AU-3(1)Additional Audit Information
1.00
AU-4Audit Log Storage Capacity
1.00
AU-4(1)Transfer to Alternate Storage
1.00
AU-5Response to Audit Logging Process Failures
1.00
AU-5(1)Storage Capacity Warning
1.00
AU-5(2)Real-time Alerts
1.00

+12 more (top 10 by confidence shown)

CCI1 mapping
CCI-001858
1.00

Details

Check Text (C-206700r855863_chk)

If a network device such as the events, network management, or SNMP server is configured to send an alert when communication is lost with the central audit server, this is not a finding. Verify the firewall is configured to send an alert via instant message, email, SNMP, or another authorized method to the SCA, ISSO, and other identified personnel when communication is lost with the central audit server. If the firewall is not configured to send an immediate alert via an approved method when communication is lost with the central audit server, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-6957r297880_fix)

Configure the firewall (or another network device) to send an alert via instant message, email, or another authorized method to the SCA, ISSO, and other identified personnel for any log failure event where the filtering functions are unable to write events to the central audit server.