Details

It is essential for security personnel to know what is being done, what was attempted, where it was done, when it was done, and by whom it was done in order to compile an accurate risk assessment. Logging the date and time of each detected event provides a means of investigating an attack; recognizing resource utilization or capacity thresholds; or identifying an improperly configured network device. In order to establish and correlate the series of events leading up to an outage or attack, it is imperative the date and time are recorded in all log records.

Solution

Configure the router to include the date and time on all log records as shown in the example below.

R1(config)#service timestamps log datetime localtime

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

• https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_Cisco_IOS-XE_Router_Y21M10_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 Cisco.

References

• 800-53|AU-3
• CAT|II
• CCI|CCI-000131
• Rule-ID|SV-215817r531083_rule
• STIG-ID|CISC-ND-000280
• STIG-Legacy|SV-105361
• STIG-Legacy|V-96223
• Vuln-ID|V-215817

Source

• Tenable.com/audits