Assessment Objective

Determine if:

• AU-03a. audit records contain information that establishes what type of event occurred;
• AU-03b. audit records contain information that establishes when the event occurred;
• AU-03c. audit records contain information that establishes where the event occurred;
• AU-03d. audit records contain information that establishes the source of the event;
• AU-03e. audit records contain information that establishes the outcome of the event;
• AU-03f. audit records contain information that establishes the identity of any individuals, subjects, or objects/entities associated with the event.

Assessment Methods

Examine

• Audit and accountability policy
• system security plan
• privacy plan
• procedures addressing content of audit records
• system design documentation
• system configuration settings and associated documentation
• list of organization-defined auditable events
• system audit records
• system incident reports
• other relevant documents or records

Interview

• Organizational personnel with audit and accountability responsibilities
• organizational personnel with information security and privacy responsibilities
• system/network administrators

Test

• Mechanisms implementing system auditing of auditable events

Ticket collegati

• NIST -

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