RE: Review of logs/audit trail - whose responsibility?

["Rivest, Philippe" <PRivest () transforce ca>]

Hi

> From my point of view, IT should be the one reviewing the logs. These logs
contain technical information and IT is the only one aware of what is going
on and what should NOT happen.

However, I would stress out that log review should be (best case) reviewed
daily and a report should be sent to management to confirm that the review
was done and if it was satisfying or not. (dashboard type).

IT security has a lot of other things to do than review logs files, same for
people doing computer audits and so on.


 
Philippe Rivest - CEH, Network+, Server+, A+
TransForce Inc.
Internal auditor - Information security
Verificateur interne - Securite de l'information

8585 Trans-Canada Highway, Suite 300
Saint-Laurent (Quebec) H4S 1Z6
Tel.: 514-331-4417   
Fax: 514-856-7541

http://www.transforce.ca/



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Objet : Review of logs/audit trail - whose responsibility?

Dear all,

a simple question:

we all agree that there must be logs and audit trails to enable tracing back
and monitoring of suspicious activities

Logs should be reviewed regularly to identify abnormal activities

however, who should "ideally" be responsible for this regular (daily)
monitoring of logs?

Is it IT, IT Security or Computer Audit?

I know that each company might implement it differently, but from a
conceptual point of view, in terms of security, what will be the most
appropriate choice?

thanks for your comments

Regards,
Ronish

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