The container platform must use FIPS validated cryptographic mechanisms to protect the integrity of log information.

Severity	Group ID	Group Title	Version	Rule ID	Date	STIG Version
medium	V-233063	SRG-APP-000126	SRG-APP-000126-CTR-000275	SV-233063r960951_rule	2024-12-05	2

Description
To fully investigate an incident and to have trust in the audit data that is generated, it is important to put in place data protections. Without integrity protections, unauthorized changes may be made to the audit files and reliable forensic analysis and discovery of the source of malicious system activity may be degraded. Although digital signatures are one example of protecting integrity, this control is not intended to cause a new cryptographic hash to be generated every time a record is added to a log file. Integrity protections can also be implemented by using cryptographic techniques for security function isolation and file system protections to protect against unauthorized changes.

Description

To fully investigate an incident and to have trust in the audit data that is generated, it is important to put in place data protections. Without integrity protections, unauthorized changes may be made to the audit files and reliable forensic analysis and discovery of the source of malicious system activity may be degraded. Although digital signatures are one example of protecting integrity, this control is not intended to cause a new cryptographic hash to be generated every time a record is added to a log file. Integrity protections can also be implemented by using cryptographic techniques for security function isolation and file system protections to protect against unauthorized changes.

ℹ️ Check
Review the container platform configuration to determine if FIPS-validated cryptographic mechanisms are being used to protect the integrity of log information. If FIPS-validated cryptographic mechanisms are not being used to protect the integrity of log information, this is a finding.

✔️ Fix
Configure the container platform to use FIPS-validated cryptographic mechanisms to protect the integrity of log information.