EPAS-00-001800 - The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must produce audit records containing sufficient information to establish where the events occurred.

Information

Information system auditing capability is critical for accurate forensic analysis. Without establishing where events occurred, it is impossible to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an incident.

In order to compile an accurate risk assessment and provide forensic analysis, it is essential for security personnel to know where events occurred, such as application components, modules, session identifiers, filenames, host names, and functionality.

Associating information about where the event occurred within the application provides a means of investigating an attack; recognizing resource utilization or capacity thresholds; or identifying an improperly configured application.

Solution

Execute the following SQL as the 'enterprisedb' operating system user:

> psql edb -c 'ALTER SYSTEM SET edb_audit_statement = 'all''
> psql edb -c 'SELECT pg_reload_conf()'

or

Update the system documentation to note the organizationally approved setting and corresponding justification of the setting for this requirement.

Item Details

Audit Name: EnterpriseDB PostgreSQL Advanced Server DB v2r1

Category: AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

Plugin: PostgreSQLDB

Control ID: 7f217415bd3422b017ef7e912e2da4b19815c0126344881eb91ebcc045b4e3c9

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EPAS-00-001800 - The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must produce audit records containing sufficient information to establish where the events occurred.

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