Details

Writing events to a centralized management audit system offers many benefits to the enterprise over having dispersed logs. Centralized management of audit records and logs provides for efficiency in maintenance and management of records, enterprise analysis of events, and backup and archiving of event records enterprise-wide. The web server and related components are required to be capable of writing logs to centralized audit log servers.

NOTE: Nessus has not performed this check. Please review the benchmark to ensure target compliance.

Solution

Work with the SIEM administrator to allow the ability to write specified log record content to an audit log server.

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

• https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_Apache_Server_2-4_UNIX_Y22M01_STIG.zip

This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: Audit and Accountability.This control applies to the following type of system Unix.

References

• 800-53|AU-4(1)
• CAT|II
• CCI|CCI-001851
• Rule-ID|SV-214263r612240_rule
• STIG-ID|AS24-U1-000720
• STIG-Legacy|SV-102805
• STIG-Legacy|V-92717
• Vuln-ID|V-214263

Source

• Tenable.com/audits