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Auditability Considerations

We recommend that you log data to fit your business needs, but we caution you to devise your logging plans with auditability and resource usage in mind.

Business Value:

The security administrator, through entitlement-based controls and general security configuration options, controls the amount of logging on a system. The options that are set must reflect the site's business needs.

Logging does affect performance; logging does cost in terms of processing path length, data repository size, and more. Consider this potential for overhead when deciding what logging controls to activate.

More Information:

The following sections detail several logging controls and our recommendations on how to use them.