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V-65261

CAT II (Medium)

The DataPower Gateway must provide an immediate real-time alert to, at a minimum, the SCA and ISSO, of all audit failure events where the detection and/or prevention function is unable to write events to either local storage or the centralized server.

Rule ID

SV-79751r1_rule

STIG

IBM DataPower ALG Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R1

CCIs

CCI-001858

Discussion

Without a real-time alert, security personnel may be unaware of an impending failure of the audit capability and system operation may be adversely affected. Alerts provide organizations with urgent messages. Real-time alerts provide these messages immediately (i.e., the time from event detection to alert occurs in seconds or less). This does not apply to audit logs generated on behalf of the device itself (management).

Check Content

Examine configuration of Log targets (type “Log Target” in navigation search box) to verify a target that delivers Critical messages.

If no log targets are configured, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Log Target to send all Critical log messages to the desired destination.

Search Bar “Log Target” >> Add >> Name log target name >> Target Type “SOAP” >> URL dest url 

Event Subscriptions tab >> Add >> Event Category “all” >> Minimum Event Priority “critical”