The Cisco ASA must be configured to send an alert to organization-defined personnel and/or the firewall administrator when malicious code is detected.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
<VulnDiscussion>Without an alert, security personnel may be unaware of an impending failure of the audit capability, and the ability to perform forensic analysis and detect rate-based and other anomalies will be impeded. The IDPS generates an immediate (within seconds) alert which notifies designated personnel of the incident. Sending a message to an unattended log or console does not meet this requirement since that will not be seen immediately. These messages should include a severity level indicator or code as an indicator of the criticality of the incident. The ISSM or ISSO may designate the firewall administrator and/or other authorized personnel to receive the alert within the specified time, validate the alert, and then forward only validated alerts to the ISSM and ISSO.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>
- ID
- SV-239888r665977_rule
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation - Manual Procedure
Configure email server and email addresses to send alerts to organization-defined personnel and/or the firewall administrator.
Step 1: Navigate to Policies >> Actions >> Alerts.
Step 2: From the Create Alert drop-down menu, choose Create Email Alert.