V-72893

Severity: Medium

Generated

2019-05-20 15:48:11.984914

Status

Skipped

PostgreSQL must provide an immediate real-time alert to appropriate support staff of all audit failure events requiring real-time alerts.

NIST 800-53

STIG # Description Result
AU-5 AU-5: Response To Audit Processing Failures skipped

Guidance

It is critical for the appropriate personnel to be aware if a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required. Without a real-time alert, security personnel may be unaware of an impending failure of the audit capability, and system operation may be adversely affected. The appropriate support staff include, at a minimum, the ISSO and the DBA/SA. Alerts provide organizations with urgent messages. Real-time alerts provide these messages immediately (i.e., the time from event detection to alert o ccurs in seconds or less). The necessary monitoring and alerts may be implemented using features of PostgreSQL, the OS, third-party software, custom code, or a combination of these. The term “the system” is used to encompass all of these.

Check

Review the system documentation to determine which audit failure events require real-time alerts. Review the system settings and code. If the real-time alerting that is specified in the documentation is not enabled, this is a finding.

Fix

Configure the system to provide an immediate real-time alert to appropriate support staff when a specified audit failure occurs. It is possible to create scripts or implement third-party tools to enable real-time alerting for audit failures in PostgreSQL.

Test Results

  Result
Operating System Detection skipped

Code

control "V-72893" do
  title "PostgreSQL must provide an immediate real-time alert to appropriate
  support staff of all audit failure events requiring real-time alerts."
  desc  "It is critical for the appropriate personnel to be aware if a system
  is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required. Without a real-time
  alert, security personnel may be unaware of an impending failure of the audit
  capability, and system operation may be adversely affected.
  The appropriate support staff include, at a minimum, the ISSO and the DBA/SA.
  Alerts provide organizations with urgent messages. Real-time alerts provide
  these messages immediately (i.e., the time from event detection to alert o
  ccurs in seconds or less).
  The necessary monitoring and alerts may be implemented using features of
  PostgreSQL, the OS, third-party software, custom code, or a combination of
  these. The term \"the system\" is used to encompass all of these."
  impact 0.5
  tag "severity": "medium"
  tag "gtitle": "SRG-APP-000360-DB-000320"
  tag "gid": "V-72893"
  tag "rid": "SV-87545r1_rule"
  tag "stig_id": "PGS9-00-002700"
  tag "cci": "CCI-001858"
  tag "nist": ["AU-5 (2)", "Rev_4"]
  tag "check": "Review the system documentation to determine which audit failure
  events require real-time alerts.
  Review the system settings and code. If the real-time alerting that is
  specified in the documentation is not enabled, this is a finding."
  tag "fix": "Configure the system to provide an immediate real-time alert to
  appropriate support staff when a specified audit failure occurs.
  It is possible to create scripts or implement third-party tools to enable
  real-time alerting for audit failures in PostgreSQL."

  only_if { false }

end