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AU-05(05) Alternate Audit Logging Capability

NIST SP 800-53 (controls) 5.2.0 against 5.1.1+u4
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unchanged AU part of AU-5

Title

Alternate Audit Logging Capability

Control

Provide an alternate audit logging capability in the event of a failure in primary audit logging capability that implements [Assignment: alternate audit logging functionality].

Discussion

Since an alternate audit logging capability may be a short-term protection solution employed until the failure in the primary audit logging capability is corrected, organizations may determine that the alternate audit logging capability need only provide a subset of the primary audit logging functionality that is impacted by the failure.

Parameters

au-05.05_odp: alternate audit logging functionality

Related controls

au-9

Assessment objective

AU-05(05) an alternate audit logging capability is provided in the event of a failure in primary audit logging capability that implements [Assignment: alternate audit logging functionality].

STIG rules that implement this control 0

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