Correlation with Physical Monitoring
LOW MODERATE ✓ HIGHRequirements NIST SOURCE
Correlate information from audit records with information obtained from monitoring physical access to further enhance the ability to identify suspicious, inappropriate, unusual, or malevolent activity.
Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)
The correlation of physical audit record information and the audit records from systems may assist organizations in identifying suspicious behavior or supporting evidence of such behavior. For example, the correlation of an individual’s identity for logical access to certain systems with the additional physical security information that the individual was present at the facility when the logical access occurred may be useful in investigations.
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-6(6) 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
- information from audit records is correlated with information obtained from monitoring physical access to further enhance the ability to identify suspicious, inappropriate, unusual, or malevolent activity.
Examine
[SELECT FROM: Audit and accountability policy; procedures addressing audit review, analysis, and reporting; procedures addressing physical access monitoring; system design documentation; system configuration settings and associated documentation; documentation providing evidence of correlated information obtained from audit records and physical access monitoring records; system security plan; privacy plan; other relevant documents or records].
Interview
[SELECT FROM: Organizational personnel with audit review, analysis, and reporting responsibilities; organizational personnel with physical access monitoring responsibilities; organizational personnel with information security and privacy responsibilities].
Test
[SELECT FROM: Mechanisms implementing the capability to correlate information from audit records with information from monitoring physical access].
Overlays
STIGs & CCIs
No STIG checks or CCI mappings are currently loaded for AU-6(6). 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.
Learn more about STIG/CCI integration →Evidence
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 the capability to correlate information from audit records with information from monitoring physical access
Other Records
- procedures addressing audit review, analysis, and reporting
- procedures addressing physical access monitoring
- documentation providing evidence of correlated information obtained from audit records and physical access monitoring records
- other relevant documents or records