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← Back to VMware NSX 4.x Tier-1 Gateway Firewall Security Technical Implementation Guide

V-265488

CAT II (Medium)

The NSX Tier-1 Gateway firewall must generate traffic log entries.

Rule ID

SV-265488r994833_rule

STIG

VMware NSX 4.x Tier-1 Gateway Firewall Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R2

CCIs

CCI-000130CCI-000067CCI-000131CCI-000132CCI-000133CCI-000134CCI-000172

Discussion

Without establishing what type of event occurred, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack. Audit event content that may be necessary to satisfy this requirement includes, for example, time stamps, source and destination addresses, user/process identifiers, event descriptions, success/fail indications, filenames involved, and access control or flow control rules invoked. Associating event types with detected events in the network element logs provides a means of investigating an attack, recognizing resource usage or capacity thresholds, or identifying an improperly configured network element. Satisfies: SRG-NET-000074-FW-000009, SRG-NET-000061-FW-000001, SRG-NET-000075-FW-000010, SRG-NET-000076-FW-000011, SRG-NET-000077-FW-000012, SRG-NET-000078-FW-000013, SRG-NET-000492-FW-000006, SRG-NET-000493-FW-000007

Check Content

From the NSX Manager web interface, go to Security >> Policy Management >> Gateway Firewall >> Gateway Specific Rules.

For each Tier-1 Gateway and for each rule, click the gear icon and verify the logging setting.

If logging is not "Enabled", this is a finding.

Fix Text

From the NSX Manager web interface, go to Security >> Policy Management >> Gateway Firewall >> Gateway Specific Rules.

For each Tier-1 Gateway and for each rule with logging disabled, click the gear icon and enable logging, and then click "Apply".

After all changes are made, click "Publish".