EvidenceSheet
NIST SP 800-161 Rev 1 (supply chain) · C-SCRM Family: Audit and Accountability

AU-12 Audit Record Generation

Ensures delivered and supplier-operated components actually generate the audit records the organization needs.

Source: NIST SP 800-161 Rev 1 (supply chain), AU-12. The statement above is our statement of the clause, read from the published text and cited so you can check it against the official text, not the instrument verbatim. Open NIST SP 800-161 Rev 1 (supply chain) in the compliance library.

3
artefacts
1
held by a system
0
at each review
moderate
to go live
SIEM / log platform
where the evidence lives
teal = a system already holds it · olive = produced at each review. To go live: easy when half or more of the artefacts are already held by a system, moderate from a quarter to a half, hard below a quarter.

These are the artefacts auditors commonly ask for on this requirement, our guidance rather than text from the standard. Your assessor decides what is sufficient in your context, and asks for samples across the period when a report covers one.

system holds itEvidence a system already holds

  • 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

  • Acquisition requirements specifying logging capability · Policy repository / GRC workspace
  • Coverage of supplier-operated components · Vendor register / contract repository

First move

Start with the 1 of 3 artefacts that already live in a system (SIEM / log platform); keep the periodic reviews but log each one as a dated record with a named reviewer.

Common gaps auditors find

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.

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