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AU-12(02) Standardized Formats

NIST SP 800-53 (controls) 5.2.0 against 5.2.0
All changes in this version
unchanged AU part of AU-12

Title

Standardized Formats

Control

Produce a system-wide (logical or physical) audit trail composed of audit records in a standardized format.

Discussion

Audit records that follow common standards promote interoperability and information exchange between devices and systems. Promoting interoperability and information exchange facilitates the production of event information that can be readily analyzed and correlated. If logging mechanisms do not conform to standardized formats, systems may convert individual audit records into standardized formats when compiling system-wide audit trails.

Assessment objective

AU-12(02) a system-wide (logical or physical) audit trail composed of audit records is produced in a standardized format.

STIG rules that implement this control 0

No followed STIG rule cites a CCI indexed to this control (CCI list 2026-07-14).