FedRAMP High
AU - Audit and Accountability

FedRAMP High AU-5: Response to Audit Logging Process Failures

Alert defined personnel on audit failure within FedRAMP timeframe; take defined action (overwrite oldest, shutdown, stop processing).

What else in your programme already covers this

This control maps to 25 controls across 11 other frameworks. If you already hold one of them, the evidence you collected for it is the starting point here rather than new work.

CIS Controls v8 · 4 controls

  • CIS-13.1 Centralize Security Event Alerting
  • CIS-17.4 Establish and Maintain an Incident Response Process
  • CIS-8.1 Establish and Maintain an Audit Log Management Process
  • CIS-8.2 Collect Audit Logs

ISO 27002:2022 · 4 controls

  • 5.24 Information security incident management planning and preparation
  • 5.25 Assessment and decision on information security events
  • 5.26 Response to information security incidents
  • 8.15 Logging
  • NIST-CSF-DE.AE-06 Information on adverse events is provided to authorized staff and tools
  • NIST-CSF-PR.PS-04 Log records are generated and made available for continuous monitoring
  • NIST-CSF-RS.CO-02 Internal and external stakeholders are notified of incidents
  • NIST-CSF-RS.MA-01 The incident response plan is executed in coordination with relevant third parties once an incident is declared

PCI DSS 4.0 · 4 controls

  • 10.2.1.6 Log initialization, stopping, or pausing of logs
  • 10.7.1 Critical security control failure detection (SP)
  • 10.7.2 Critical security control failure detection (all entities)
  • 10.7.3 Failure response timeline

ISO 27001:2022 · 3 controls

  • 5.24 Information security incident management planning and preparation
  • 5.26 Response to information security incidents
  • 8.15 Logging

C5 (Germany) · 1 control

  • C5-OPS-17 Logging and Monitoring - Availability of the Monitoring Software

CMMC 2.0 · 1 control

  • 03.03.04 Response to Audit Logging Process Failures

SOC 2 · 1 control

  • SOC2-CC7.4 Responds to identified security incidents through defined procedures

Every mapping shown was judged rather than inferred from wording similarity, and the ones that failed review are published too. See the coverage reports and what was rejected.

Other controls in AU - Audit and Accountability

You are reading one control. How much of FedRAMP High have you already done?

FedRAMP High AU-5 is one control. If you already hold one of the frameworks below, a reviewed crosswalk already says how much of FedRAMP High your existing evidence covers. Hold C5 (Germany) and 119 of 410 FedRAMP High controls already carry evidence.

Each report names every control your existing framework evidences, every one it does not, the reasoning behind each claim, and the claims that were argued against and rejected. 6 were rejected on the C5 (Germany) pair alone.

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The graph holds this control, the 25 it maps to, and the evidence behind each claim, over MCP and REST.