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Ensure ‘logging with timestamps’ is enabled – show logging

Details

Allows the timestamp to logs generated

Rationale:

Enabling timestamps, to mark the generation time of log messages, reduces the complexity of correlating events and tracing network attacks across multiple devices by providing a holistic view of events thus enabling faster troubleshooting of issues and analysis of incidents.

Solution

Firepower Management Center:

Devices > Platform settings > Syslog > Logging setup

or

Firepower Management Center:

Device > Platform Setting > Threat Defense Policy > Syslog > Syslog Settings

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

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_Firepower.

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Updated on July 16, 2022
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