V-224766

Discussion

Protection of log data includes assuring log data is not accidentally lost or deleted. Backing up audit records to a different system or onto separate media than the system being audited on an organizationally defined frequency helps to assure in the event of a catastrophic system failure, the audit records will be retained. This helps to ensure a compromise of the information system being audited does not also result in a compromise of the audit records. This requirement only applies to applications that have a native backup capability for audit records. Operating system backup requirements cover applications that do not provide native backup functions. Satisfies: SRG-APP-000125, SRG-APP-000356, SRG-APP-000358

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Open the central log repository and verify the ISEC7 logs have been written to the location of the log server.

Log in to the ISEC7 SPHERE Console.
Navigate to Administration >> Configuration >> Apache Tomcat Settings.
Verify that the log directory path is set to the desired location.

Alternatively:

On the ISEC7 SPHERE server, browse to the install directory.
Default is %Install Drive%/Program Files/ISEC7 SPHERE.
Select the conf folder.
Open config.properties and verify the logPath is set to the desired location.

If ISEC7 SPHERE logs are not written to an audit log management server, this is a finding.