NIST800-AU-9 AU-9 Protection of Audit Information
NIST800-AU-9 in NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 (NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5, Release 5.2.0). All NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 controls held. Open NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 on the standards site.
The control as we hold it
AU-9 Protection of Audit Information. a. Protect audit information and audit logging tools from unauthorized access, modification, and deletion; and b. Alert [Assignment: organization-defined personnel or roles] upon detection of unauthorized access, modification, or deletion of audit information.
Reviewed and closest counterparts in the other frameworks
Reviewed rows come from a released pair; a closest match is the nearest held text and is not a reviewed row.
SOC 2
- SOC2-CC6.1 CC6.1 Logical access security over protected information assets (closest match)
- SOC2-CC6.3 CC6.3 Role-based access, least privilege and segregation of duties (closest match)
- SOC2-CC6.7 CC6.7 Restricting and protecting information in transmission, movement and removal (closest match)
- SOC2-CC7.1 CC7.1 Detecting configuration changes and new vulnerabilities (closest match)
HIPAA Security Rule
- 164.312(c)(1) Integrity (Standard) (closest match)
What an auditor commonly asks for
General guidance for this control area (domain: AU - Audit and Accountability), in our words, not a statement of the standard and not binding on an assessor.
- the audit and accountability policy
- the log-capture configuration and a sample
- the log-review records