Consolidate, correlate, and recreate events using the Windows Event Log.
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<Property Path="$Context/Property[Type='GRC!System.Compliance.ControlActivity']/DisplayName$">ID_139ef24d_c049_44df_b603_844e263af265 Proceduralize Event Consolidation, Correlation, and Recreation through Logs</Property>
<Property Path="$Context/Property[Type='GRC!System.Compliance.ControlActivity']/Description$">Windows XP SP3:Consolidate, correlate, and recreate events using the Windows Event Log.</Property>
<Property Path="$Context/Property[Type='GRC!System.Compliance.ControlActivity']/ImplementationMethod$">This control requires that the method your organization uses to log events must facilitate event consolidation, correlation, and recreation to support investigations. Windows Eventing 6.0, Windows Server Event Log, and the Event Viewer facilitate these requirements by allowing administrators to log by event types and to store, categorize, consolidate, and interact with Windows events. These technologies automatically consolidate logs within the Event Log and may be correlated using the Event Viewer. They facilitate investigation using user-specified search criteria.
Establish a manual procedure that facilitates event consolidation, correlation, and recreation within your organization. This procedure should address how your organization ensures that important assets are configured to send logs to the domain controller, and how IT administrators should use the Event Viewer to facilitate an investigation through useful queries. Then manually assert whether this procedure is being followed within the organization for assets within the GRC program scope. Manual assertions should be recorded at a frequency that is commensurate with audit sample sizes and frequencies, which can vary according to GRC authority document requirements and your organization's audit schedule.
Procedure Steps
Replace the content in this field with a high-level summary of the procedure your organization executes for this control.</Property>
<Property Path="$Context/Property[Type='GRC!System.Compliance.ControlActivity']/AdditionalGuidance$">For more information, see:
"Quickly Filter Event Logs in Windows Server 2008 " at
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd630944.aspx
"Windows Eventing 6.0" and "Granular Audit Policy (GAP)" at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2008.03.auditing.aspx
"How to use Group Policy to configure detailed security auditing settings " at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/921469
"About Audit Collection Services (ACS) in Operations Manager 2007" at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb381373.aspx</Property>
<Property Path="$Context/Property[Type='GRC!System.Compliance.ControlActivity']/TestSummary$">Manual Assertion
Manually assert whether the procedure has been sufficiently and reasonably performed since the last assertion.
Manual assertions should be recorded at a frequency that is commensurate with audit sample sizes and frequencies, which can vary according to GRC authority document requirements and your organization's audit schedule. Determine what personnel will make the manual assertion by asking the GRC program manager. Typically, this assertion will be made by an analyst who observes an IT professional that enacts the process.
Record the compliance state as an assertion within the GRC program with one of the following states: compliant, noncompliant, error, or unknown.
Manual Assertion Steps:
1. Open the Service Manager Console.
2. Click the Compliance and Risk Items Workspace.
3. Expand the Control Management folder, then the Control Activities folders and select the All Control Activities View.
4. In the Control Activities View, select Control Activities for which you want to add a result and in the Task pane select Edit Control Activity. Service Manager Console launches the Control Activity form with the selected control activity.
6. In the Control Activity form, in the Task pane, select the Add Result Console task. Service Manager Console launches the Select Template dialog.
7. Select one of the templates for the results (Compliant, Non-Compliant, Unknown or Error). The Result form will open with the Result set to the control activity template name (for example, Compliant means Result = Compliant, and so on). The owner field is populated with the current user name.
8. Select one of the programs from the Program Section before Results (OK button is enabled).
9. Save the results by clicking OK in the dialog. Service Manager Console creates a Number of Managed Entity Results per Configuration Item in Scope for the selected programs. Service Manager Console will close the Add Result dialog and create a relationship between the control activity and Managed Entitiy Result in the CMDB. The Control Activity form remains open and displays the updated control activity in the form.</Property>
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