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The IDPS must assign a critical severity level to all audit processing failures.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

<VulnDiscussion>It is critical that when the IDPS is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required, it takes action to mitigate the failure Audit processing failures include: software/hardware errors; failures in the audit capturing mechanisms; and audit storage capacity being reached or exceeded. Since action must be taken immediately, these messages will be designated as a critical severity level and this level must be sent as part of the alert message.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>

ID
SV-69575r1_rule
Severity
Medium
References
Updated



Remediation - Manual Procedure

Configure the IDPS to assign a critical severity level to all audit processing failures.