AU-12 Audit Record Generation
Ensures delivered and supplier-operated components actually generate the audit records the organization needs.
3
artefacts
2
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
- Acquisition requirements specifying logging capability · SIEM / log platform
- Evidence delivered components log as required · SIEM / log platform
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
none for this control
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- Coverage of supplier-operated components · Vendor register / contract repository
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
- appliances delivered with logging that cannot be exported
- supplier-operated components log to the supplier only
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 sheetAU-10 Non-repudiation · AU-13 Monitoring for Information Disclosure