AU
Audit And Accountability
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Review audit logs.
You should ensure that your organization reviews its audit logs. Logs should be checked regularly, organizations with small environments may be able to do this manually. The process of reviewing audit logs varies by organization. The intent of this practice is to become familiar with the logs being automatically created on the systems present in your organization and identify key events in the logs that might indicate malicious activity. Larger organizations may need automation to complete this task with success. Example You are the administrator for a company with a small IT environment. You know the importance of reviewing audit logs. Every week you log on to the Windows server as an admin user, open the Event Viewer and check for signs that the log files have been altered: Windows event ID 104 – Event Log was Cleared, event ID 1102 – Audit Log was Cleared), event ID 4719 – System audit policy was changed. Look for login and new user created events: Windows event IDs 4624 (failure) and 4625 (success)) and event IDs 4728, 4732 and 4756 – User added to Privileged Group.
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Reviewing audit logs is a common control in information security. Organizations have the flexibility to determine which logs and specific events to review. The level of audit log review should be determined based on a risk assessment or similar activity.
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AU.2.044.[a] the organization defines one or more policies and/or procedures for the event types to look for when information system audit records are reviewed and analyzed;
AU.2.044.[b] the organization defines one or more policies and/or procedures for the frequency to review and analyze information system audit records for indications of organizationally defined events; and
AU.2.044.[c] the organization reviews and analyzes information system audit records for indications of organizationally defined events with the organization-defined frequency.