The network device must produce audit records containing information to establish when (date and time) the events occurred.

Severity	Group ID	Group Title	Version	Rule ID	Date	STIG Version
medium	V-202031	SRG-APP-000096	SRG-APP-000096-NDM-000226	SV-202031r960894_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. Logging the date and time of each detected event provides a means of investigating an attack; recognizing resource utilization or capacity thresholds; or identifying an improperly configured network device. In order to establish and correlate the series of events leading up to an outage or attack, it is imperative the date and time are recorded in all log records.

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. Logging the date and time of each detected event provides a means of investigating an attack; recognizing resource utilization or capacity thresholds; or identifying an improperly configured network device. In order to establish and correlate the series of events leading up to an outage or attack, it is imperative the date and time are recorded in all log records.

ℹ️ Check
Determine if the network device is configured to produce audit records containing information to establish when (date and time) the events occurred. If the network device does not produce audit records containing information to establish when the events occurred, this is a finding.

✔️ Fix
Configure the network device to produce audit records containing information to establish when (date and time) the events occurred.