Assessment Objective

Determine if:

• AU-12a. audit record generation capability for the event types the system is capable of auditing (defined in AU-02_ODP[01]) is provided by [Assignment: system components];
• AU-12b. [Assignment: personnel or roles] is/are allowed to select the event types that are to be logged by specific components of the system;
• AU-12c. audit records for the event types defined in AU-02_ODP[02] that include the audit record content defined in AU-03 are generated.

Assessment Methods

Examine

• Audit and accountability policy
• procedures addressing audit record generation
• system security plan
• privacy plan
• system design documentation
• system configuration settings and associated documentation
• list of auditable events
• system audit records
• other relevant documents or records

Interview

• Organizational personnel with audit record generation responsibilities
• organizational personnel with information security and privacy responsibilities
• system/network administrators
• system developers

Test

• Mechanisms implementing audit record generation capability

Linkede sager

• NIST -

  https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/800/53/r5/upd1/final