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Audit Trail Services
Overview
Audit Trail is a security-relevant chronological record, set of records, and/or destination and source of records that provide documentary evidence of the sequence of activities that have affected at any time a specific operation, procedure, or event.
Objective
- Analysis or an audit when initiating an investigation
- Takes many forms depending on the organization
- For reconciliation, historical reports, future budget planning, tax or other audit compliance, crime investigation, and/or risk management
Objective
- Analysis or an audit when initiating an investigation
- Takes many forms depending on the organization
- For reconciliation, historical reports, future budget planning, tax or other audit compliance, crime investigation, and/or risk management
Benefits
- Promotes appropriate user behavior, which can prevent the introduction of viruses, improper use of information, and unauthorized use or modifications.
- Reconstruction of events
- Detection and prevent future occurrences of things such as hacking, system failures, outages, or corruption of information.
- We can use automated audit logs to identify problems that indicate system implementation issues, operational issues and other issues.