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The FortiGate firewall must generate traffic log records when traffic is denied, restricted, or discarded.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

<VulnDiscussion>Without generating log records that log usage of objects by subjects and other objects, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an incident or identify those responsible for one. Security objects are data objects that are controlled by security policy and bound to security attributes. The firewall must not forward traffic unless it is explicitly permitted via security policy. Logging for firewall security-related sources such as screens and security policies must be configured separately. To ensure security objects such as firewall filters (i.e., rules, access control lists [ACLs], screens, and policies) send events to a syslog server and local logs, security logging must be configured on each firewall term.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>

ID
SV-234160r611480_rule
Severity
Medium
References
Updated



Remediation - Manual Procedure

Log in to the FortiGate GUI with Super-Admin privilege.

1. Click Log and Report.
2. Click Log Settings.
3. Configure the Log Settings for Forward Traffic Log to ALL.
4. Click Apply.