The determination of the set of security-relevant Events to be stored in a Security Audit Trail and the storage of these Events in a Security Audit Trail. source: EURESCOM domain: Security usage
Auditing is the information gathering and analysis of assets to ensure such things as policy compliance and security from vulnerabilities.
Grid auditing in OSG relates to resolving claims of challenged authentication and exposed risk on grid services which accept delegated credentials. The auditing system will use information from the accounting system and link it to information from other sources to allow full tracking and analysis of the actions and events related to a user's resource usage.
service that reliably and securely records security-related events producing an audit trail enabling the reconstruction and examination of a sequence of events. Security events could include authentication events, policy enforcement decisions, and others. The resulting audit trail may be used to detect attacks, confirm compliance with policy, deter abuse, or other purposes.
Tracking activities of users by recording selected types of events in the security log of a server or a workstation. See also audit entry, audit trail.
The ability to detect and record security-related events, particularly any attempts to create, access, or delete objects. Windows NT uses Security IDs (SIDs) to record which process performed the action.
The gathering and analysis of recorded information concerning events that have taken place on a device, group of devices or whole network.
The process that tracks the activities of users by recording selected types of events in the security log of a server or a workstation.