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AU-11(1) AU · Audit and Accountability

Long-term Retrieval Capability

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Requirements NIST SOURCE

Employ [measures] to ensure that long-term audit records generated by the system can be retrieved.

Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)

Organizations need to access and read audit records requiring long-term storage (on the order of years). Measures employed to help facilitate the retrieval of audit records include converting records to newer formats, retaining equipment capable of reading the records, and retaining the necessary documentation to help personnel understand how to interpret the records.

Implementation Guidance

Engineering Interpretation

Original engineering commentary written for this explorer — not NIST source text and not authoritative guidance.

No engineering interpretation has been authored for AU-11(1) yet. This section is architected to receive it — see the Requirements and Assessment sections above for the authoritative NIST source content in the meantime.

Assessment

NIST SP 800-53A REV 5.2.0

Assessment Objectives

  1. measures to be employed to ensure that long-term audit records generated by the system can be retrieved are defined;
  2. <AU-11(01)_ODP measures> are employed to ensure that long-term audit records generated by the system can be retrieved.

Examine

[SELECT FROM: Audit and accountability policy; system security plan; privacy plan; audit record retention policy and procedures; system design documentation; system configuration settings and associated documentation; audit record archives; audit logs; audit records; other relevant documents or records].

Interview

[SELECT FROM: Organizational personnel with audit record retention responsibilities; organizational personnel with information security and privacy responsibilities; system/network administrators].

Test

[SELECT FROM: Mechanisms implementing audit record retention capability].

Overlays

Showing the OT/ICS overlay for the parent control AU-11 — see the AU-11(1) entries within each baseline below.

OT/ICS Overlay SP 800-82r3

NIST SP 800-82r3 Appendix F, Table 22. Blank baseline means the control/control enhancement is not selected in that initial OT baseline.

LOW

  • Base control: Included (matches standard baseline)

MODERATE

  • Base control: Included (matches standard baseline)

HIGH

  • Base control: Included (matches standard baseline)

STIGs & CCIs

No STIG checks or CCI mappings are currently loaded for AU-11(1). This section is architected to display, per product: STIG ID, Finding ID, Severity, Title, Description, Check, Fix, CCI, and NIST control mapping — but nothing is populated here until a real DISA STIG/CCI dataset is ingested.

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Evidence

Potential Evidence — Derived

Categorized from the SP 800-53A "Examine"/"Test" artifact list above by keyword — not an authoritative NIST evidence list.

Policy

  • Audit and accountability policy
  • system security plan
  • privacy plan

Configuration

  • system design documentation
  • system configuration settings and associated documentation

Logging

  • audit record retention policy and procedures
  • audit record archives

Testing

  • Mechanisms implementing audit record retention capability

Other Records

  • audit logs
  • audit records
  • other relevant documents or records