Detections
Analytics
MD7X-00-007400 MongoDB must provide an immediate real-time alert to appropriate support staff of all audit log failures.
Information
It is critical for the appropriate personnel to be aware if a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required. Without a real-time alert, security personnel may be unaware of an impending failure of the audit capability, and system operation may be adversely affected.The appropriate support staff include, at a minimum, the information system security officer (ISSO) and the database administrator (DBA)/system administrator (SA).
A failure of database auditing will result in either the database continuing to function without auditing or in a complete halt to database operations. When audit processing fails, appropriate personnel must be alerted immediately to avoid further downtime or unaudited transactions.
Alerts provide organizations with urgent messages. Real-time alerts provide these messages immediately (i.e., the time from event detection to alert occurs in seconds or less).
NOTE: Nessus has not performed this check. Please review the benchmark to ensure target compliance.
Solution
Setup and configure real-time alerts by configuring OS or third-party software monitoring tools to notify appropriate personnel when the storage allocation on the volume hosting the MongoDB audit logs usage reaches a predefined site specific threshold.See Also
Item Details
Audit Name: DISA MongoDB Enterprise Advanced 7.x STIG v1r1
Category: AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY
References: 800-53|AU-5(2), CAT|II, CCI|CCI-001858, Rule-ID|SV-265940r1028815_rule, STIG-ID|MD7X-00-007400, Vuln-ID|V-265940
Plugin: Unix
Control ID: b2c596e26eb35d79a20f2e1e811ec5a8937be40ae3b7bd2871d7c8f94560df17