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MarkLogic Server must provide an immediate real-time alert to appropriate support staff of all audit failures.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

It is critical for the appropriate personnel to be aware if a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required. Without a real-time alert, security personnel may be unaware of an impending failure of the audit capability, and system operation may be adversely affected. The appropriate support staff include, at a minimum, the ISSO and the DBA/SA. A failure of database auditing will result in either the database continuing to function without auditing or a complete halt to database operations. When audit processing fails, appropriate personnel must be alerted immediately to avoid further downtime or unaudited transactions. Alerts provide organizations with urgent messages. Real-time alerts provide these messages immediately (i.e., the time from event detection to alert occurs in seconds or less).

ID
SV-220382r961401_rule
Version
ML09-00-007400
Severity
Medium
References
Updated

Remediation Templates

A Manual Procedure

Configure the system to provide an immediate real-time alert to appropriate support staff when a specified audit failure occurs by using OS scripts or a third-party tool for audit failure events alerting.