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AU-09(01) Hardware Write-once Media

NIST SP 800-53 (controls) 5.2.0 against 5.2.0
All changes in this version
unchanged AU part of AU-9

Title

Hardware Write-once Media

Control

Write audit trails to hardware-enforced, write-once media.

Discussion

Writing audit trails to hardware-enforced, write-once media applies to the initial generation of audit trails (i.e., the collection of audit records that represents the information to be used for detection, analysis, and reporting purposes) and to the backup of those audit trails. Writing audit trails to hardware-enforced, write-once media does not apply to the initial generation of audit records prior to being written to an audit trail. Write-once, read-many (WORM) media includes Compact Disc-Recordable (CD-R), Blu-Ray Disc Recordable (BD-R), and Digital Versatile Disc-Recordable (DVD-R). In contrast, the use of switchable write-protection media, such as tape cartridges, Universal Serial Bus (USB) drives, Compact Disc Re-Writeable (CD-RW), and Digital Versatile Disc-Read Write (DVD-RW) results in write-protected but not write-once media.

Related controls

au-4, au-5

Assessment objective

AU-09(01) audit trails are written to hardware-enforced, write-once media.

STIG rules that implement this control 0

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