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The Juniper router must be configured to generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful logon attempts occur.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

<VulnDiscussion>Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an incident or identify those responsible for one. Audit records can be generated from various components within the network device (e.g., module or policy filter).</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>

ID
SV-217345r961824_rule
Severity
Medium
References
Updated



Remediation - Manual Procedure

Configure the router to generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful logon attempts occur as shown in the example below.

[edit system]
set syslog file LOG_FILE authorization info

Note: The parameter "any" can be in place of authorization" as this will log everything. Also, a syslog server can be configured in addition to or in lieu of logging to a file as shown in the example below.