Details

Misuse of privileged functions, either intentionally or unintentionally by authorized users, or by unauthorized external entities that have compromised information system accounts, is a serious and ongoing concern and can have significant adverse impacts on organizations. Auditing the use of privileged functions is one way to detect such misuse and identify the risk from insider threats and the advanced persistent threat.

Solution

Configure the Cisco switch to log all commands entered from the command line interface as well as log all configuration changes as shown in the following example:

SW1(config)#logging userinfo
SW1(config)#archive
SW1(config-archive)#log config
SW1(config-archive-log-cfg)#logging enable
SW1(config-archive-log-cfg)#end

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

• https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_Cisco_IOS_XE_Switch_Y21M10_STIG.zip

This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: Access Control.This control applies to the following type of system Cisco.

References

• 800-53|AC-6(9)
• CAT|II
• CCI|CCI-002234
• Rule-ID|SV-220546r508584_rule
• STIG-ID|CISC-ND-000940
• STIG-Legacy|SV-110547
• STIG-Legacy|V-101443
• Vuln-ID|V-220546

Source

• Tenable.com/audits