Australian Information Security Manual
Guidelines for database systems

Australian Information Security Manual ISM-1537: Database event logging

Security-relevant events for databases are centrally logged, including: - access or modification of particularly important content - addition of new users, especially privileged users - changes to user roles or privileges - attempts to elevate user privileges - queries containing comments - queries containing multiple embedded queries - database and query alerts or failures - database structure changes - database administrator actions - use of executable commands - database logons and logoffs.

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CIS Controls v8 · 1 control

  • 16.6.10.C.01 16.6.10.C.01 Component-specific events to log (database, OS, web)

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