CASA-FW-000050 - The Cisco ASA must be configured to generate traffic log entries containing information to establish when (date and time) the events occurred.

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Information

Without establishing when events occurred, it is impossible to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack.

In order to compile an accurate risk assessment, and provide forensic analysis of network traffic patterns, it is essential for security personnel to know when flow control events occurred (date and time) within the infrastructure.

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

Solution

Configure the ASA to generate traffic log entries containing information to establish when the events occurred.

ASA(config)# logging timestamp

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_Cisco_ASA_Y23M01_STIG.zip

Item Details

References: CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000131, Rule-ID|SV-239856r665854_rule, STIG-ID|CASA-FW-000050, Vuln-ID|V-239856

Plugin: Cisco

Control ID: 604557c30f8294956ca42ba23eefd964a069a68cd4b7a3cb9a92945a70da8a2e