V-288230

Discussion

Without generating audit records specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an incident, or identify those responsible for one. Audit records can be generated from various components within the information system (e.g., module or policy filter).

Check Content

Review the application documentation and deployed configuration to determine whether the application's auditing mechanism generates audit records showing starting and ending time for user access to the system.

If the application's auditing mechanism does not generate audit records showing starting and ending time for user access to the system, this is a finding.