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AU-6(4) AU · Audit and Accountability

Central Review and Analysis

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Requirements NIST SOURCE

Provide and implement the capability to centrally review and analyze audit records from multiple components within the system.

Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)

Automated mechanisms for centralized reviews and analyses include Security Information and Event Management products.

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(4) 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. the capability to centrally review and analyze audit records from multiple components within the system is provided;
  2. the capability to centrally review and analyze audit records from multiple components within the system is implemented.

Examine

[SELECT FROM: Audit and accountability policy; procedures addressing audit review, analysis, and reporting; system design documentation; system configuration settings and associated documentation; system security plan; privacy plan; system audit records; 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; system developers].

Test

[SELECT FROM: System capability to centralize review and analysis of audit records].

Overlays

Showing the OT/ICS overlay for the parent control AU-6 — see the AU-6(4) 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(4). 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

  • System capability to centralize review and analysis of audit records

Other Records

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