id: "AU-05(05)" title: "Alternate Audit Logging Capability" family: "AU" family_name: "Audit and Accountability" sort_id: "au-05.05" priority: "P2" implementation_level: "organization" parent: "AU-05" enhancement: True


Statement

Provide an alternate audit logging capability in the event of a failure in primary audit logging capability that implements {{ insert: param, au-05.05_odp }}.

Guidance

Since an alternate audit logging capability may be a short-term protection solution employed until the failure in the primary audit logging capability is corrected, organizations may determine that the alternate audit logging capability need only provide a subset of the primary audit logging functionality that is impacted by the failure.

Assessment Objective

an alternate audit logging capability is provided in the event of a failure in primary audit logging capability that implements {{ insert: param, au-05.05_odp }}.

Audit and accountability policy

procedures addressing response to audit processing failures

system design documentation

system security plan

privacy plan

system configuration settings and associated documentation

system audit records

other relevant documents or records

Organizational personnel with audit and accountability responsibilities

organizational personnel with information security and privacy responsibilities

system/network administrators

system developers

Alternate audit logging capability