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Audit trail

An audit trail (also called audit log) is a security-relevant chronological record, set of records, and/or destination and source of records that provide documentary evidence of the sequence of activities that have affected at any time a specific operation, procedure, event, or device. Audit records typically result from activities such as financial…

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Audit trail

Nodes42
Edges41
Triples35
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.047619
Components1

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Audit trail

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related to Regulatory requirements · 13
Audit trail → CFR, Data Security Standard, December, HIPAA Security Rule, Multiple, NPRM, PCI DSS, Requirement, SOX, The HIPAA Security Rule, The Payment Card Industry, The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, These
related to Industry uses · 7
Audit trail → An, Audit, Computer, In, Information, Related, Routine
is a · 2
Audit trail → method of providing feedback to voters using a ballotless voting system.In employment and human resources contexts, progression of records of computer data about a working framework

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audit trail security trails software information data record records regulatory system transactions systems access activities required sequence also log event

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Audit trailis aprogression of records of computer data about a working framework0.90text
Audit trailis amethod of providing feedback to voters using a ballotless voting system.In employment and human resources contexts0.90text
financial transactionsinstance ofAudit records typically result from activities0.80text
scientific researchinstance ofAudit records typically result from activities0.80text
health care data transactionsinstance ofAudit records typically result from activities0.80text
or communications by individual peopleinstance ofAudit records typically result from activities0.80text
systemsinstance ofAudit records typically result from activities0.80text
accountsinstance ofAudit records typically result from activities0.80text
or other entities.The process that creates an audit trail is typically required to always run in a privileged modeinstance ofAudit records typically result from activities0.80text
so it can accessinstance ofAudit records typically result from activities0.80text
supervise all actions from all usersinstance ofAudit records typically result from activities0.80text
clinical trial management systemsinstance ofserver based systems0.80text

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