Security Audit Trail

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Definition(s):

A set of records that collectively provide documentary evidence of processing used to aid in tracing from original transactions forward to related records and reports, and/or backwards from records and reports to their component source transactions.
Source(s):
NISTIR 5153 from DoD 5200.28-STD

Data collected and potentially used to facilitate a security audit.
Source(s):
NISTIR 5153 from ISO DIS 10181-2

Glossary Comments

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See NISTIR 7298 Rev. 3 for additional details.