audit information
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, and managing audit information.the sentence this term was read in
generalized from a web lookup of the quoted expression at proposal time Verdict: term of art.
- – AU-9 PROTECTION OF AUDIT INFORMATION | NIST SP 800-53
- AU-9: Protection of Audit Information - CSF Tools
- audit record reduction - Glossary - NIST CSRC
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A collective body of recorded data — comprising audit logs, audit records, audit trails, and associated metadata — generated or collected by systems and processes to document security-relevant events, transactions, and user actions for purposes of accountability, compliance verification, and forensic investigation. It is distinguished from the audit *process* itself by being the evidentiary substrate that process relies on: the raw material that enables review of who did what, when, and with what effect. In practice, authoritative frameworks such as NIST SP 800-53 (control AU-9, "Protection of Audit Information") treat it as an asset requiring its own integrity, availability, and access controls, because its trustworthiness is a precondition for any meaningful security audit or accountability finding.
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