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SM-10Audit Log Capacity and Retention

>Control Description

Organization allocates audit record storage capacity in accordance with logging storage and retention requirements; Audit logs are retained for 1 year with 90 days of data immediately available for analysis.

Theme

Process

Type

Corrective

Policy/Standard

Logging & Monitoring Standard

>Implementation Guidance

1. Document Organization's Logging Standard which includes logging retention requirements for critical system activity to mandate logs be available for a minimum for 1 year. 2. Implement SIEM tool configuration to retrieve the relevant logs for a minimum period of 1 year with 90 days of logs be available for immediate analysis.

>Testing Procedure

1. Inspect Organization's Logging Standard to determine whether logging retention requirements are defined for critical system activity to mandate logs being available for a minimum for 1 year 2. Inspect sample logs for in-scope services to validate that the SIEM tool stores relevant logs for a minimum period of 1 year with 90 days of logs being available for immediate analysis. 3. Evaluate the SIEM tool configuration to validate the retention settings for 1 year.

>Audit Artifacts

E-SM-01
E-SM-02
E-SM-03

>Framework Mappings

Cross-framework mappings provided by Adobe CCF Open Source under Creative Commons License.

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