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I - Mission Critical Classified

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-APP-000504

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    Group
  • The application must generate audit records for privileged activities or other system-level access.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Privileged activities include the tasks or actions taken by users in an administrative role (admin, backup operator, manager,...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000505

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    Group
  • The application must generate audit records showing starting and ending time for user access to the system.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Knowing when a user’s application session began and when it ended is critical information that aids in forensic analysis.&lt;...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000507

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The application must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful accesses to objects occur.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficu...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000508

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The application must generate audit records for all direct access to the information system.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficu...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000509

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    Group
  • The application must generate audit records for all account creations, modifications, disabling, and termination events.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;When application user accounts are created, modified, disabled or terminated the event must be logged. Centralized managemen...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000092

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The application must initiate session auditing upon startup.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If the application does not begin logging upon startup, important log events could be missed.&lt;/VulnDiscussion&gt;&lt;False...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000095

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    Group
  • The application must log application shutdown events.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Forensics is a large part of security incident response. Applications must provide a record of their actions so application ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000095

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    Group
  • The application must log destination IP addresses.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The IP addresses of the systems that the application connects to are an important aspect of identifying application network r...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000095

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    Group
  • The application must log user actions involving access to data.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;When users access application data, there is risk of data compromise or seepage if the account used to access is compromised ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000095

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    Group
  • The application must log user actions involving changes to data.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;When users change/modify application data, there is risk of data compromise if the account used to access is compromised or a...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000096

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The application must produce audit records containing information to establish when (date and time) the events occurred.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without establishing when events occurred, it is impossible to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to a...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000097

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The application must produce audit records containing enough information to establish which component, feature or function of the application triggered the audit event.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;It is impossible to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an incident if the details regarding the sou...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000098

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • When using centralized logging; the application must include a unique identifier in order to distinguish itself from other application logs.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without establishing the source, it is impossible to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000099

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The application must produce audit records that contain information to establish the outcome of the events.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without information about the outcome of events, security personnel cannot make an accurate assessment as to whether an attac...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000100

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    Group
  • The application must generate audit records containing information that establishes the identity of any individual or process associated with the event.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without information that establishes the identity of the subjects (i.e., users or processes acting on behalf of users) associ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000101

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The application must generate audit records containing the full-text recording of privileged commands or the individual identities of group account users.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Reconstruction of harmful events or forensic analysis is not possible if audit records do not contain enough information. Or...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000101

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The application must implement transaction recovery logs when transaction based.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without required logging and access control, security issues related to data changes will not be identified. This could lead ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000356

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The application must provide centralized management and configuration of the content to be captured in audit records generated by all application components.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without the ability to centrally manage the content captured in the audit records, identification, troubleshooting, and corre...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000358

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The application must off-load audit records onto a different system or media than the system being audited.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Information stored in one location is vulnerable to accidental or incidental deletion or alteration. In addition, attackers ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000515

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The application must be configured to write application logs to a centralized log repository.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Information stored in one location is vulnerable to accidental or incidental deletion or alteration. In addition, attackers ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000359

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The application must provide an immediate warning to the SA and ISSO (at a minimum) when allocated audit record storage volume reaches 75% of repository maximum audit record storage capacity.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If security personnel are not notified immediately upon storage volume utilization reaching 75%, they are unable to plan for ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000360

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • Applications categorized as having a moderate or high impact must provide an immediate real-time alert to the SA and ISSO (at a minimum) for all audit failure events.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Applications that are categorized as having a high or moderate impact on the organization must provide immediate alerts when ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000108

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The application must alert the ISSO and SA (at a minimum) in the event of an audit processing failure.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;It is critical for the appropriate personnel to be aware if a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required....
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000109

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The application must shut down by default upon audit failure (unless availability is an overriding concern).

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;It is critical that when the application is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required, it take action to mitigate ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000111

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The application must provide the capability to centrally review and analyze audit records from multiple components within the system.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Successful incident response and auditing relies on timely, accurate system information and analysis in order to allow the or...
    Rule Medium Severity

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