F5BI-AS-000039 - The BIG-IP ASM module must be configured to produce ASM Event Logs containing information to establish what type of unauthorized events occurred.

Information

Without establishing what type of event occurred, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack.

Event log content that may be necessary to satisfy this requirement includes, for example, event descriptions, success/fail indications, filenames involved, and access control or flow control rules invoked.

Associating event types with detected events in the event logs provide a means of investigating an attack, recognizing resource utilization or capacity thresholds, or identifying an improperly configured network element.

This requirement does not apply to audit logs generated on behalf of the device itself (management).

NOTE: Nessus has provided the target output to assist in reviewing the benchmark to ensure target compliance.

Solution

Configure the BIG-IP ASM module to produce ASM Event Logs containing information to establish what type of unauthorized events occurred.

Navigate to the BIG-IP System manager >> Security >> Event Logs >> Logging Profiles.

Click on 'Create'.

Name the Profile.

Check the box next to 'Application Security'.

Set 'Request Type' to 'Illegal requests, and requests that include staged attack signatures' under 'Storage Filter'.

Click 'Finished'.

Apply Logging Profile to applicable Virtual Server(s).

Navigate to the BIG-IP System manager >> Local Traffic >> Virtual Servers >> Virtual Servers List tab.

Select Virtual Servers(s) from the list to assign the ASM Event Logging Profile.

Navigate to the Security >> Policies tab.

Set 'Policy Settings' to 'Advanced'.

Verify that 'Application Security Policy' is Enabled and 'Policy' is set to use an ASM policy for the virtual server.

Under 'Log Profile' set to Enabled and move new Logging Profile from 'Available' to 'Selected'.

Click 'Update'.

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_F5_BIG-IP_Y24M01_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

References: 800-53|AU-3, CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000130, Rule-ID|SV-214505r395919_rule, STIG-ID|F5BI-AS-000039, STIG-Legacy|SV-74499, STIG-Legacy|V-60069, Vuln-ID|V-214505

Plugin: F5

Control ID: edb35cc89acfd1011e7fa0a9645ce97e452fd06105165ea9bda474c88fd48bc3