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

["M.D.Mufambisi" <mufambisi () gmail com>]

My 0.02. Im an IT Advisor and this issue is raised often by clients.
In my humble opinion,Computer audit should review the logs and should
have the necessary skill to do it. It cant be IT because IT generate
ssome of the audited events and proper segregation of duties implies
that you can not MONITOR your own activity.
With regards to te frequency, it depends with the environment. A bank
for instance would have real time monitoring....such as alerts to IT
security on various events....whilst an organisation such as a sports
club may not need such drastic measures.

Kind Regards

Munyaradzi


On 9/26/09, Gleb Paharenko <gpaharenko () gmail com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> The core requirements: it should be other person(s) than who is
> producing log events and this person should be competent enough to
> analyse the activities in logs. Even, it might be some managed
> security service provider. When you need performance and fill lack of
> resource - use different IT departments. In case you need more
> independent review - make a computer audit to watch for IT logs.
>
> 2009/9/22  <sfmailsbm () gmail com>:
> > 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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