Audit and Accountability
Create, protect, and retain system audit records to enable monitoring and analysis.
Audit and accountability is about keeping logs that are good enough to reconstruct what happened, tying actions to named users, protecting the logs from tampering, and actually reviewing them. It is where many small contractors discover that the logs they have are not the logs they need.
- 3.3.1 Keep logs, and keep them long enough
- 3.3.2 Tie actions to individuals
- 3.3.3 Revisit what you log
- 3.3.4 Get told when logging breaks
- 3.3.5 Correlate logs across systems
- 3.3.6 Be able to search and report on logs
- 3.3.7 Synchronize clocks
- 3.3.8 Protect the logs themselves
- 3.3.9 Restrict who manages logging