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CD16-00-007400 - PostgreSQL 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
Configure the system to provide an immediate real-time alert to appropriate support staff when an audit log failure occurs.It is possible to create scripts or implement third-party tools to enable real-time alerting for audit failures in PostgreSQL.
See Also
https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_CD_Postgres_16_V1R2_STIG.zip
Item Details
Audit Name: DISA Crunchy Data Postgres 16 STIG v1r2 Unix
Category: AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY
References: 800-53|AU-5(2), CAT|II, CCI|CCI-001858, Rule-ID|SV-261920r1000973_rule, STIG-ID|CD16-00-007400, Vuln-ID|V-261920
Plugin: Unix
Control ID: bba908edb5937b35542242806eef3574acf4ebc7cbbc2722b1817241bfae7bc3