NIST SP 800-171 Rev 3
03.03 AU (Audit and Accountability)

NIST SP 800-171 Rev 3 03.03.08: Protection of Audit Information

Protect audit information and audit logging tools from unauthorized access, modification, and deletion; authorize access only to a subset of privileged users.

Maintained by Gerard BlokdykVerified against the published standard Control text last updated

What else in your programme already covers this

This control maps to 36 controls across 16 other frameworks. If you already hold one of them, the evidence you collected for it is the starting point here rather than new work.

PCI DSS 4.0 · 6 controls

  • 10.2.1.3 10.2.1.3 Access to the audit logs is itself logged
  • 10.3.1 10.3.1 Audit log read access limited to job need
  • 10.3.2 10.3.2 Audit log files protected from modification
  • 10.3.3 10.3.3 Audit logs promptly backed up to central secure storage
  • 10.3.4 10.3.4 File integrity monitoring on audit logs
  • 10.6.3 10.6.3 Time sync configuration and time data protected

C5 (Germany) · 3 controls

  • C5-OPS-12 Logging and Monitoring - Access, Storage and Deletion
  • C5-OPS-14 Logging and Monitoring - Storage of the Logging Data
  • C5-OPS-16 Logging and Monitoring - Configuration

ISO 27001:2022 · 3 controls

  • 5.28 Collection of evidence
  • 5.33 Protection of records
  • 8.15 Logging
  • SEC04-BP02 Capture logs, findings, and metrics in standardized locations
  • SEC08-BP04 Enforce access control
  • ASBv3-LT-6 Configure log storage retention
  • ASBv3-PA-7 Follow just enough administration (least privilege) principle

CMMC 2.0 · 2 controls

FedRAMP High · 2 controls

  • AU-9 Protection of Audit Information
  • AU-9(4) Access by Subset of Privileged Users

FedRAMP Moderate · 2 controls

  • AU-9 Protection of Audit Information
  • AU-9(4) Access by Subset of Privileged Users

ISO 27002:2022 · 2 controls

  • NIST-CSF-PR.DS-01 The confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data-at-rest are protected
  • NIST-CSF-RS.AN-07 Incident data and metadata are collected, and their integrity and provenance are preserved
  • E8-APP-ML2 Application Control (ML2)

CIS Controls v8 · 1 control

HIPAA Security Rule · 1 control

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 03.03 AU (Audit and Accountability)

You are reading one control. How much of NIST SP 800-171 Rev 3 have you already done?

NIST SP 800-171 Rev 3 03.03.08 is one control. If you already hold one of the frameworks below, a reviewed crosswalk already says how much of NIST SP 800-171 Rev 3 your existing evidence covers. Hold PCI DSS 4.0 and 69 of 97 NIST SP 800-171 Rev 3 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. 0 were rejected on the PCI DSS 4.0 pair alone.

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