AU-11 Audit Record Retention
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Title
Audit Record Retention
Control
Retain audit records for [Assignment: time period] to provide support for after-the-fact investigations of incidents and to meet regulatory and organizational information retention requirements.
Discussion
Organizations retain audit records until it is determined that the records are no longer needed for administrative, legal, audit, or other operational purposes. This includes the retention and availability of audit records relative to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, subpoenas, and law enforcement actions. Organizations develop standard categories of audit records relative to such types of actions and standard response processes for each type of action. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) General Records Schedules provide federal policy on records retention.
Parameters
au-11_odp: time period
Related controls
au-14, au-2, au-4, au-5, au-6, au-9, mp-6, ra-5, si-12
Assessment objective
AU-11 audit records are retained for [Assignment: time period] to provide support for after-the-fact investigations of incidents and to meet regulatory and organizational information retention requirements.
STIG rules that implement this control 1
Application Security and Development V6R5
- APSC-DV-002900 CAT II The ISSO must ensure application audit trails are retained for at least 30 months (12 months active + 18 months cold storage) for applications without SAMI data and five years for applications including SAMI data.