The Central Log Server must produce audit records containing information to establish what type of events occurred.

Severity	Group ID	Group Title	Version	Rule ID	Date	STIG Version
low	V-221908	SRG-APP-000095	SRG-APP-000095-AU-000680	SV-221908r960891_rule	2024-12-04	3

Description
Without establishing what type of event occurred, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an incident, or identify those responsible for one. Audit record content that may be necessary to satisfy the requirement of this policy includes, for example, time stamps, source and destination addresses, user/process identifiers, event descriptions, success/fail indications, filenames involved, and access control or flow control rules invoked. Associating event types with detected events in the application and audit logs provides a means of investigating an attack; recognizing resource utilization or capacity thresholds; or identifying an improperly configured application.

Description

Without establishing what type of event occurred, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an incident, or identify those responsible for one. Audit record content that may be necessary to satisfy the requirement of this policy includes, for example, time stamps, source and destination addresses, user/process identifiers, event descriptions, success/fail indications, filenames involved, and access control or flow control rules invoked. Associating event types with detected events in the application and audit logs provides a means of investigating an attack; recognizing resource utilization or capacity thresholds; or identifying an improperly configured application.

ℹ️ Check
Examine the configuration. Verify that the Central Log Server produces audit records containing information to establish what type of events occurred. If the Central Log Server is not configured to produce audit records containing information to establish what type of events occurred, this is a finding.

✔️ Fix
Configure the Central Log Server to produce audit records containing information to establish what type of events occurred.