EvidenceSheet
NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 · AU - Audit and Accountability

AU-14 Session Audit. Provide and implement the capability for [organization-defined] to [organization-defined] the content of a user session under [organization-defined] ; and Develop, integrate, and use session auditing activities in consultation with legal counsel and

Session Audit. Provide and implement the capability for [organization-defined] to [organization-defined] the content of a user session under [organization-defined] ; and Develop, integrate, and use session auditing activ.

5
artefacts
1
held by a system
2
at each review
hard
to go live
Policy repository / GRC workspace
where the evidence lives
teal = a system already holds it · olive = produced at each review

system holds itEvidence a system already holds

  • Configuration of the session capture capability and a sample captured session · Cloud console / configuration management

periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review

  • The defined circumstances under which session capture or record and view is invoked · Policy repository / GRC workspace
  • Legal counsel consultation record, plus the civil liberties or privacy officials engaged · Data governance / DLP tooling

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

  • The users or roles able to invoke session audit, and the approval required · Policy repository / GRC workspace
  • Retention, access and handling rules for captured session content, given that it may hold personal data · Policy repository / GRC workspace

First move

Mostly documents and reviews. Pull the 1 system-held artefact from your Cloud console / configuration management on a schedule; put the documents under version control with an owner and review date, and log each review 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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AU-13 Monitoring for Information Disclosure. Monitor [organization-defined] [organization-defined] for evidence of unauthorized disclosure of organizational information; and If an information disclosure is discovered: Notify [organization-defined] ; and Take the following additional actions: [organization-defined] · AU-16 Cross-organizational Audit Logging. Employ [organization-defined] for coordinating [organization-defined] among external organizations when audit information is transmitted across organizational boundaries