STIGUI
V-204936CAT II — Medium severitySV-204936r395943_rule

The ALG must protect audit information from unauthorized read access.

Rule version SRG-NET-000098-ALG-000056 · STIG v2 · 2026-05-23

Discussion

Auditing and logging are key components of any security architecture. Logging the actions of specific events provides a means to investigate an attack, recognize resource utilization or capacity thresholds, or to simply identify an improperly configured network element. Thus, it is imperative that the collected log data from the various network elements, as well as the auditing tools, be secured and can only be accessed by authorized personnel.

This does not apply to audit logs generated on behalf of the device itself (management).

Check

Verify the ALG protects audit information from unauthorized read access.

If the ALG does not protect audit information from unauthorized read access, this is a finding.

Fix

Configure the ALG to protect audit information from unauthorized read access.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-204936
Group title
SRG-NET-000098
Rule ID
SV-204936r395943_rule
Check ID
C-5204r395941_chk
Fix ID
F-5204r395942_fix