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EPAS-00-013000 - The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must off-load audit data to a separate log management facility; this must be continuous and in near real time for systems with a network connection to the storage facility and weekly or more often for stand-alone systems.

Information

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.

The DBMS may write audit records to database tables, to files in the file system, to other kinds of local repository, or directly to a centralized log management system. Whatever the method used, it must be compatible with off-loading the records to the centralized system.

NOTE: Nessus has not performed this check. Please review the benchmark to ensure target compliance.

Solution

Install PEM and configure the centralized Audit Manager as documented here: https://www.enterprisedb.com/docs/pem/latest/pem_online_help/04_toc_pem_features/04_audit_manager/

If another tool other than PEM is used, configure it to meet this requirement.

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_EPAS_V2R1_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

References: 800-53|AU-4(1), CAT|II, CCI|CCI-001851, Rule-ID|SV-259328r961860_rule, STIG-ID|EPAS-00-013000, Vuln-ID|V-259328

Plugin: PostgreSQLDB

Control ID: f8a50f85cd8bafcbc924555df7eef91ea65c120cb96853dad5068f39cca7ebeb