The Cisco router must be configured to automatically audit account removal actions.

Account management, as a whole, ensures access to the network device is being controlled in a secure manner by granting access to only authorized personnel. Auditing account removal actions will support account management procedures. When device management accounts are terminated, user or service accessibility may be affected. Auditing also ensures authorized active accounts remain enabled and available for use when required.

Review the router configuration to determine if it automatically audits account removal. The configuration should look similar to the example below:

archive log config logging enable

Note: Configuration changes can be viewed using the show archive log config all command.

If account removal is not automatically audited, this is a finding.

Configure the router to log account removal using the following commands:

R4(config)#archive R4(config-archive)#log config R4(config-archive-log-cfg)#logging enable R4(config-archive-log-cfg)#logging size 1000 R4(config-archive-log-cfg)#notify syslog contenttype plaintext R4(config-archive-log-cfg)#hidekeys R4(config-archive-log-cfg)#end