Australian Information Security Manual
Guidelines for personnel security

Australian Information Security Manual ISM-1509: Central logging of privileged access events

Privileged access events are centrally logged.

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ACSC Essential Eight · 3 controls

  • E8-ADMIN-ML2 Restrict Administrative Privileges (ML2)
  • E8-ADMIN-ML3 Restrict Administrative Privileges (ML3)
  • E8-ADMIN-ISM-1509 Restrict administrative privileges (ISM-1509): Privileged access events are centrally logged
  • 16.4.41.C.02 16.4.41.C.02 Privileged monitoring records user activity and anomalies
  • 16.6.10.C.02 16.6.10.C.02 Minimum events logged for all software components
  • 16.6.9.C.01 16.6.9.C.01 Minimum logged events on classified systems
  • SEC.AUDIT Audit logging of user access and actions, kept 12 months
  • NIST-CSF-DE.CM-03 Personnel activity and technology usage are monitored to find potentially adverse events

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