STIGUI
V-253921CAT II — Medium severitySV-253921r961443_rule

The Juniper EX switch must be configured to record time stamps for audit records that can be mapped to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) or Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Rule version JUEX-NM-000440 · STIG v2 · 2026-06-15

Discussion

If time stamps are not consistently applied and there is no common time reference, it is difficult to perform forensic analysis.

Time stamps generated by the application include date and time. Time is commonly expressed in UTC, a modern continuation of GMT, or local time with an offset from UTC.

Check

Determine if the network device records time stamps for audit records that can be mapped to UTC or GMT. This requirement may be verified by demonstration or configuration review.

Verify the time zone is UTC. [edit system] time-zone UTC;

If the network device does not record time stamps for audit records that can be mapped to UTC or GMT, this is a finding.

Fix

Configure the network device to record time stamps for audit records that can be mapped to UTC or GMT.

set system time-zone UTC

Identifiers

Group ID
V-253921
Group title
SRG-APP-000374-NDM-000299
Rule ID
SV-253921r961443_rule
Check ID
C-57373r843794_chk
Fix ID
F-57324r843795_fix