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V-207196

CAT III (Low)

The VPN Gateway must generate log records containing information to establish when (date and time) the events occurred.

Rule ID

SV-207196r608988_rule

STIG

Virtual Private Network (VPN) Security Requirements Guide

Version

V3R4

CCIs

CCI-000131

Discussion

Without establishing when events occurred, it is impossible to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack. VPN gateways often have a separate audit log for capturing VPN status and other information about the traffic (as opposed to the log capturing administrative and configuration actions). Associating event types with detected events in the network audit logs provides a means of investigating an attack, recognizing resource utilization or capacity thresholds, or identifying an improperly configured VPN gateway.

Check Content

Configure the VPN Gateway generates log records containing information to establish when (date and time) the events occurred.

If the VPN Gateway does not generate log records containing information to establish when (date and time) the events occurred, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Configure the VPN Gateway to generate log records containing information to establish when (date and time) the events occurred.