Details

Since the accounts in the network device are privileged or system-level accounts, account management is vital to the security of the network device. Account management by a designated authority ensures access to the network device is being controlled in a secure manner by granting access to only authorized personnel with the appropriate and necessary privileges. Auditing account modification along with an automatic notification to appropriate individuals will provide the necessary reconciliation that account management procedures are being followed. If modifications to management accounts are not audited, reconciliation of account management procedures cannot be tracked.

Solution

Configure the router to audit the modification of accounts. This requirement can be met by ensuring that configuration changes are logged as shown in the following example:

[edit system]
set syslog file LOG_FILE change-log info

Note: The parameter 'any' can be in place of 'change-log' as this will log everything. Also, a syslog server can be configured in addition to or in lieu of logging to a file as shown in the example below.

set syslog host 10.1.58.2 any info

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

• https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_Juniper_Router_Y21M02_STIG.zip

This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: Access Control.This control applies to the following type of system Juniper.

References

• 800-53|AC-2(4)
• CAT|II
• CCI|CCI-001403
• Rule-ID|SV-101197r1_rule
• STIG-ID|JUNI-ND-000100
• Vuln-ID|V-91097

Source

• Tenable.com/audits