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AU-6(3) AU · Audit and Accountability

Correlate Audit Record Repositories

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Requirements NIST SOURCE

Analyze and correlate audit records across different repositories to gain organization-wide situational awareness.

Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)

Organization-wide situational awareness includes awareness across all three levels of risk management (i.e., organizational level, mission/business process level, and information system level) and supports cross-organization awareness.

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-6(3) 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. audit records across different repositories are analyzed and correlated to gain organization-wide situational awareness.

Examine

[SELECT FROM: Audit and accountability policy; system security plan; privacy plan; procedures addressing audit review, analysis, and reporting; system design documentation; system configuration settings and associated documentation; system audit records across different repositories; other relevant documents or records].

Interview

[SELECT FROM: Organizational personnel with audit review, analysis, and reporting responsibilities; organizational personnel with information security and privacy responsibilities].

Test

[SELECT FROM: Mechanisms supporting the analysis and correlation of audit records].

Overlays

Showing the OT/ICS overlay for the parent control AU-6 — see the AU-6(3) 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

Excluded — not selected in the OT baseline at this tier, though the standard SP 800-53 baseline includes the base control.

MODERATE

  • Base control: Included (matches standard baseline)
  • Included: (1) (3)

HIGH

  • Base control: Included (matches standard baseline)
  • Included: (1) (3) (5) (6)

STIGs & CCIs

No STIG checks or CCI mappings are currently loaded for AU-6(3). 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

Testing

  • Mechanisms supporting the analysis and correlation of audit records

Other Records

  • procedures addressing audit review, analysis, and reporting
  • system audit records across different repositories
  • other relevant documents or records