AU.L2-3.3.4 Audit Failure Alerting
Raise an alert when the audit logging process itself fails, so a loss of logging is noticed rather than silent.
3
artefacts
3
held by a system
0
at each review
easy
to go live
SIEM / log platform
where the evidence lives
teal = a system already holds it · olive = produced at each review
system holds itEvidence a system already holds
- Alert configuration for logging process failure and log storage exhaustion · SIEM / log platform
- Evidence of alerts reaching a monitored destination · SIEM / log platform
- Records of response to a logging failure · SIEM / log platform
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
none for this control
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
none for this control
First move
Automate the pull from your SIEM / log platform. Retention and alert rules exported from the SIEM; review evidence is the closed-alert record with reviewer and time.
Common gaps auditors find
- Failure detection absent so logging stops unnoticed
- Alerts generated but routed to an unmonitored mailbox
- Storage capacity failures not treated as logging failures
Do this for your whole sheet
Paste the rows you run your controls from and get this mapping for every control at once, with the periodic-review ones flagged and a first move per row. No account for the first run.
Build my evidence sheet