System Start-up
LOW MODERATE HIGHRequirements NIST SOURCE
Initiate session audits automatically at system start-up.
Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)
The automatic initiation of session audits at startup helps to ensure that the information being captured on selected individuals is complete and not subject to compromise through tampering by malicious threat actors.
Implementation Guidance
Original engineering commentary written for this explorer — not NIST source text and not authoritative guidance.
No engineering interpretation has been authored for AU-14(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
Assessment Objectives
- session audits are initiated automatically at system start-up.
Examine
[SELECT FROM: 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].
Interview
[SELECT FROM: Organizational personnel with information security and privacy responsibilities; system/network administrators; system developers].
Test
[SELECT FROM: Mechanisms implementing user session auditing capability].
STIGs & CCIs
No STIG checks or CCI mappings are currently loaded for AU-14(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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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
Testing
- Mechanisms implementing user session auditing capability
Other Records
- procedures addressing user session auditing
- system audit records
- other relevant documents or records