NIST 800-171 · Audit and Accountability
Requirement 3.3.4
- SPRS weight
- SPRS weight: 1
- POA&M eligibility
- POA&M-eligible
- Assessment objectives
- 3 assessment objectives
Official requirement text
Alert in the event of an audit logging process failure.
Assessment objectives
Assessors don’t evaluate the requirement as one sentence; they walk these objectives one by one. Each must be met for the requirement to score.
- 3.3.4[a]personnel or roles to be alerted in the event of an audit logging process failure are identified.
- 3.3.4[b]types of audit logging process failures for which alert will be generated are defined.
- 3.3.4[c]identified personnel or roles are alerted in the event of an audit logging process failure.
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