Assessment Objective
Determine if:
- AU-05a. [Assignment: personnel or roles] are alerted in the event of an audit logging process failure within [Assignment: time period];
- AU-05b. [Assignment: additional actions] are taken in the event of an audit logging process failure.
Assessment Methods
Examine
- Audit and accountability policy
- procedures addressing response to audit processing failures
- system design documentation
- system security plan
- privacy plan
- system configuration settings and associated documentation
- list of personnel to be notified in case of an audit processing failure
- system audit records
- other relevant documents or records
Interview
- Organizational personnel with audit and accountability responsibilities
- organizational personnel with information security and privacy responsibilities
- system/network administrators
- system developers
Test
- Mechanisms implementing system response to audit processing failures
Linked Issues
| Linktype | Issue |
|---|---|
| blocks | AU-05 [M] Response to Audit Logging Process Failures |