id: "AU-14" title: "Session Audit" family: "AU" family_name: "Audit and Accountability" sort_id: "au-14" priority: "P2" implementation_level: "system" enhancements: - au-14.1 - au-14.2 - au-14.3
Provide and implement the capability for {{ insert: param, au-14_odp.01 }} to {{ insert: param, au-14_odp.02 }} the content of a user session under {{ insert: param, au-14_odp.03 }} ; and
Develop, integrate, and use session auditing activities in consultation with legal counsel and in accordance with applicable laws, executive orders, directives, regulations, policies, standards, and guidelines.
Guidance
Session audits can include monitoring keystrokes, tracking websites visited, and recording information and/or file transfers. Session audit capability is implemented in addition to event logging and may involve implementation of specialized session capture technology. Organizations consider how session auditing can reveal information about individuals that may give rise to privacy risk as well as how to mitigate those risks. Because session auditing can impact system and network performance, organizations activate the capability under well-defined situations (e.g., the organization is suspicious of a specific individual). Organizations consult with legal counsel, civil liberties officials, and privacy officials to ensure that any legal, privacy, civil rights, or civil liberties issues, including the use of personally identifiable information, are appropriately addressed.
Assessment Objective: {{ insert: param, au-14_odp.01 }} are provided with the capability to {{ insert: param, au-14_odp.02 }} the content of a user session under {{ insert: param, au-14_odp.03 }};
Assessment Objective: the capability for {{ insert: param, au-14_odp.01 }} to {{ insert: param, au-14_odp.02 }} the content of a user session under {{ insert: param, au-14_odp.03 }} is implemented;
Assessment Objective: session auditing activities are developed in consultation with legal counsel and in accordance with applicable laws, executive orders, directives, regulations, policies, standards, and guidelines;
Assessment Objective: session auditing activities are integrated in consultation with legal counsel and in accordance with applicable laws, executive orders, directives, regulations, policies, standards, and guidelines;
Assessment Objective: session auditing activities are used in consultation with legal counsel and in accordance with applicable laws, executive orders, directives, regulations, policies, standards, and guidelines;
Audit and accountability policy
system security plan
privacy plan
procedures addressing user session auditing
system design documentation
system configuration settings and associated documentation
system audit records
other relevant documents or records
Organizational personnel with information security and privacy responsibilities
system/network administrators
system developers
legal counsel
personnel with civil liberties responsibilities
Mechanisms implementing user session auditing capability