1.37 CISC-ND-001310

Information

The Cisco switch must be configured to off-load log records onto a different system than the system being audited.

GROUP ID: V-220512
RULE ID: SV-220512r961860

Information stored in one location is vulnerable to accidental or incidental deletion or alteration.

Off-loading is a common process in information systems with limited audit storage capacity.

Solution

Configure the Cisco switch to send log records to a syslog server as shown in the example below:

SW4(config)# logging server 10.1.48.10 6

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/26427