LOG-04 Audit Logs Access and Accountability
Limit audit log access to authorised staff and record who accessed what, so every access is attributable to an individual.
4
artefacts
3
held by a system
1
at each review
easy
to go live
Identity provider / directory
where the evidence lives
teal = a system already holds it · olive = produced at each review
system holds itEvidence a system already holds
- Access control list for the log platform with justification per holder · Identity provider / directory
- Access records showing individual attribution · Document repository
- Evidence shared accounts are not used to reach logs · Identity provider / directory
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
- Review of log platform access · SIEM / log platform
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
none for this control
First move
Automate the pull from your Identity provider / directory. Scheduled export of users, roles and MFA state from the directory; access-review completion pulled from the IdP, not a spreadsheet.
Common gaps auditors find
- Log platform access granted broadly to engineering
- Access to logs itself not logged
- Shared service accounts used for log access, breaking attribution
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 sheetLOG-03 Security Monitoring and Alerting · LOG-05 Audit Logs Monitoring and Response