03.03.04 Response to Audit Logging Process Failures
Alert defined personnel on audit logging process failures; take defined actions when failures occur.
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
- SIEM heartbeat alert configuration · SIEM / log platform
- Log source down runbook · SIEM / log platform
- Alert tickets · 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
- no alerting when log source stops sending
- alerts go to unmonitored mailbox
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 sheet03.03.03 Audit Record Generation · 03.03.05 Audit Record Review, Analysis, and Reporting