03.03.07 Time Stamps
Use internal system clocks to generate time stamps for audit records; synchronize to authoritative time source.
2
artefacts
2
held by a system
0
at each review
easy
to go live
Cloud console / configuration management
where the evidence lives
teal = a system already holds it · olive = produced at each review
system holds itEvidence a system already holds
- NTP/PTP configuration · Cloud console / configuration management
- Time drift monitoring reports · 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 Cloud console / configuration management. Configuration snapshots and change history from the cloud console or IaC repository, diffed against the baseline.
Common gaps auditors find
- devices syncing to internet directly
- no monitoring of drift
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 sheet03.03.06 Audit Record Reduction and Report Generation · 03.03.08 Protection of Audit Information