An audit trail or audit log is a chronological sequence of audit records, each of which contains evidence directly pertaining to and resulting from the execution of a business process or system function.

Audit records typically result from activities such as transactions or communications by individual people, systems, accounts or other entities. A financial transaction involves a change in the Status of the finances of two or more businesses or individuals Communication is the process of conveying information from a sender to a receiver with the use of a medium in which the communicated information is understood the same way

Webopedia defines an audit trail as "a record showing who has accessed a computer system and what operations he or she has performed during a given period of time. " ([1])

In telecommunication, the term means a record of both completed and attempted accesses and service, or data forming a logical path linking a sequence of events, used to trace the transactions that have affected the contents of a record. Debt AIDS Trade in Africa (or DATA) is a Multinational non-government organization founded in January 2002 in London by U2 's In Mathematics, a sequence is an ordered list of objects (or events

In information or communications security, information audit means a chronological record of system activities to enable the reconstruction and examination of the sequence of events and/or changes in an event. Information security means protecting information and information systems from unauthorized access use disclosure disruption modification or destruction Communications security ( COMSEC) Measures and controls taken to deny unauthorized persons Information derived from Telecommunications and ensure An information audit trail or information audit log is a chronological sequence of audit records each of which contains Data about when and by whom was a particular System (from Latin systēma, in turn from Greek systēma is a set of interacting or interdependent Entities, real or abstract

In nursing research, it refers to the act of maintaining a running log or journal of decisions relating to a research project, thus making clear the steps taken and changes made to the original protocol. Nursing research is the term used to describe the evidence used to support Nursing practice. A journal (through French from late Latin diurnalis, daily has several related meanings a daily record of events or business a private

In accounting, it refers to documentation of detailed transactions supporting summary ledger entries. Accountancy or accounting is the measurement statement or provision of assurance about financial information primarily used by Lenders managers, Documentation may refer to the process of providing evidence ("to document something" or to the communicable material used to provide such documentation (i A ledger or lieger (from the English dialect forms liggen or leggen, to lie or lay in sense adapted from the Dutch substantive This documentation may be on paper or electronic records.

The process that creates audit trail should always run in a privileged mode, so it could access and supervise all actions from all users, and normal user could not stop/change it. Furthermore, for the same reason, trail file or database table with a trail should not be accessible to normal users.

In what relates to audit trail, it is also very much important to take into consideration the liability issues of your audit trails, as many times in case of dispute, these audit trails can work as an evidence for some incident.

See also

• Paper trail
• Security log
• Sudosh

Sources

• Federal Standard 1037C
• National Information Systems Security Glossary

Paper Trail is the sixth studio album by American hip hop artist T A security log is used to track security-related information on a computer system sudosh is a filter and can be used as a login shell. sudosh takes advantage of pty devices in order to sit between the user's keyboard and a program Federal Standard 1037C, entitled Telecommunications Glossary of Telecommunication Terms is a United States Federal Standard issued by the General Services Administration Committee on National Security Systems Instruction No 4009 National Information Assurance Glossary, published by the United States federal government is an unclassified

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