The network device must produce audit log records containing sufficient information to establish what type of event occurred.

Severity	Group ID	Group Title	Version	Rule ID	Date	STIG Version
medium	V-202030	SRG-APP-000095	SRG-APP-000095-NDM-000225	SV-202030r960891_rule	2025-02-11	5

Description
It is essential for security personnel to know what is being done, what was attempted, where it was done, when it was done, and by whom it was done in order to compile an accurate risk assessment. 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 network device. Without this capability, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack.

Description

It is essential for security personnel to know what is being done, what was attempted, where it was done, when it was done, and by whom it was done in order to compile an accurate risk assessment. 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 network device. Without this capability, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack.

ℹ️ Check
Determine if the network device produces audit log records containing sufficient information to establish what type of event occurred. If the network device does not produce audit log records containing sufficient information to establish what type of event occurred, this is a finding.

✔️ Fix
Configure the network device to produce audit log records containing sufficient information to establish what type of event occurred.