| Control Domain |
Control |
Name |
MetadataId |
Category |
Title |
Owner |
Requirements |
Description |
Info |
Policy# |
| Azure_Security_Benchmark_v1.0 |
2.5 |
Azure_Security_Benchmark_v1.0_2.5 |
Azure Security Benchmark 2.5 |
Logging and Monitoring |
Configure security log storage retention |
Customer |
Within Azure Monitor, set your Log Analytics Workspace retention period according to your organization's compliance regulations. Use Azure Storage Accounts for long-term/archival storage.
How to set log retention parameters for Log Analytics Workspaces:
https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-monitor/platform/manage-cost-storage#change-the-data-retention-period |
n/a |
link |
1 |
| Azure_Security_Benchmark_v3.0 |
LT-6 |
Azure_Security_Benchmark_v3.0_LT-6 |
Azure Security Benchmark LT-6 |
Logging and Threat Detection |
Configure log storage retention |
Shared |
**Security Principle:**
Plan your log retention strategy according to your compliance, regulation, and business requirements. Configure the log retention policy at the individual logging services to ensure the logs are archived appropriately.
**Azure Guidance:**
Logs such as Azure Activity Logs events are retained for 90 days then deleted. You should create a diagnostic setting and route the log entries to another location (such as Azure Monitor Log Analytics workspace, Event Hubs or Azure Storage) based on your needs. This strategy also applies to the other resource logs and resources managed by yourself such as logs in the operating systems and applications inside the VMs.
You have the log retention option as below:
- Use Azure Monitor Log Analytics workspace for a log retention period of up to 1 year or per your response team requirements.
- Use Azure Storage, Data Explorer or Data Lake for long-term and archival storage for greater than 1 year and to meet your security compliance requirements.
- Use Azure Event Hubs to forward logs to outside of Azure.
Note: Azure Sentinel uses Log Analytics workspace as its backend for log storage. You should consider a long-term storage strategy if you plan to retain SIEM logs for longer time.
**Implementation and additional context:**
Change the data retention period in Log Analytics:
https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-monitor/platform/manage-cost-storage#change-the-data-retention-period
How to configure retention policy for Azure Storage account logs:
https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/storage/common/storage-monitor-storage-account#configure-logging
Microsoft Defender for Cloud alerts and recommendations export: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/security-center/continuous-export |
n/a |
link |
1 |
| CIS_Azure_1.1.0 |
4.3 |
CIS_Azure_1.1.0_4.3 |
CIS Microsoft Azure Foundations Benchmark recommendation 4.3 |
4 Database Services |
Ensure that 'Auditing' Retention is 'greater than 90 days' |
Shared |
The customer is responsible for implementing this recommendation. |
SQL Server Audit Retention should be configured to be greater than 90 days. |
link |
5 |
| CIS_Azure_1.3.0 |
4.1.3 |
CIS_Azure_1.3.0_4.1.3 |
CIS Microsoft Azure Foundations Benchmark recommendation 4.1.3 |
4 Database Services |
Ensure that 'Auditing' Retention is 'greater than 90 days' |
Shared |
The customer is responsible for implementing this recommendation. |
SQL Server Audit Retention should be configured to be greater than 90 days. |
link |
5 |
| CIS_Azure_1.4.0 |
4.1.3 |
CIS_Azure_1.4.0_4.1.3 |
CIS Microsoft Azure Foundations Benchmark recommendation 4.1.3 |
4 Database Services |
Ensure that 'Auditing' Retention is 'greater than 90 days' |
Shared |
The customer is responsible for implementing this recommendation. |
SQL Server Audit Retention should be configured to be greater than 90 days. |
link |
5 |
| CMMC_2.0_L2 |
AU.L2-3.3.1 |
CMMC_2.0_L2_AU.L2-3.3.1 |
404 not found |
|
|
|
n/a |
n/a |
|
40 |
| CMMC_2.0_L2 |
AU.L2-3.3.2 |
CMMC_2.0_L2_AU.L2-3.3.2 |
404 not found |
|
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n/a |
n/a |
|
38 |
| FedRAMP_High_R4 |
AU-11 |
FedRAMP_High_R4_AU-11 |
FedRAMP High AU-11 |
Audit And Accountability |
Audit Record Retention |
Shared |
n/a |
The organization retains audit records for [Assignment: organization-defined time period consistent with records retention policy] to provide support for after-the-fact investigations of security incidents and to meet regulatory and organizational information retention requirements.
Supplemental Guidance: Organizations retain audit records until it is determined that they are no longer needed for administrative, legal, audit, or other operational purposes. This includes, for example, retention and availability of audit records relative to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, subpoenas, and law enforcement actions. Organizations develop standard categories of audit records relative to such types of actions and standard response processes for each type of action. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) General Records Schedules provide federal policy on record retention. Related controls: AU-4, AU-5, AU-9, MP-6.
References: None. |
link |
4 |
| FedRAMP_Moderate_R4 |
AU-11 |
FedRAMP_Moderate_R4_AU-11 |
FedRAMP Moderate AU-11 |
Audit And Accountability |
Audit Record Retention |
Shared |
n/a |
The organization retains audit records for [Assignment: organization-defined time period consistent with records retention policy] to provide support for after-the-fact investigations of security incidents and to meet regulatory and organizational information retention requirements.
Supplemental Guidance: Organizations retain audit records until it is determined that they are no longer needed for administrative, legal, audit, or other operational purposes. This includes, for example, retention and availability of audit records relative to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, subpoenas, and law enforcement actions. Organizations develop standard categories of audit records relative to such types of actions and standard response processes for each type of action. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) General Records Schedules provide federal policy on record retention. Related controls: AU-4, AU-5, AU-9, MP-6.
References: None. |
link |
4 |
| NIST_SP_800-171_R2_3 |
.3.1 |
NIST_SP_800-171_R2_3.3.1 |
NIST SP 800-171 R2 3.3.1 |
Audit and Accountability |
Create and retain system audit logs and records to the extent needed to enable the monitoring, analysis, investigation, and reporting of unlawful or unauthorized system activity |
Shared |
Microsoft and the customer share responsibilities for implementing this requirement. |
An event is any observable occurrence in a system, which includes unlawful or unauthorized system activity. Organizations identify event types for which a logging functionality is needed as those events which are significant and relevant to the security of systems and the environments in which those systems operate to meet specific and ongoing auditing needs. Event types can include password changes, failed logons or failed accesses related to systems, administrative privilege usage, or third-party credential usage. In determining event types that require logging, organizations consider the monitoring and auditing appropriate for each of the CUI security requirements. Monitoring and auditing requirements can be balanced with other system needs. For example, organizations may determine that systems must have the capability to log every file access both successful and unsuccessful, but not activate that capability except for specific circumstances due to the potential burden on system performance. Audit records can be generated at various levels of abstraction, including at the packet level as information traverses the network. Selecting the appropriate level of abstraction is a critical aspect of an audit logging capability and can facilitate the identification of root causes to problems. Organizations consider in the definition of event types, the logging necessary to cover related events such as the steps in distributed, transaction-based processes (e.g., processes that are distributed across multiple organizations) and actions that occur in service-oriented or cloud-based architectures. Audit record content that may be necessary to satisfy this requirement includes time stamps, source and destination addresses, user or process identifiers, event descriptions, success or fail indications, filenames involved, and access control or flow control rules invoked. Event outcomes can include indicators of event success or failure and event-specific results (e.g., the security state of the system after the event occurred). Detailed information that organizations may consider in audit records includes full text recording of privileged commands or the individual identities of group account users. Organizations consider limiting the additional audit log information to only that information explicitly needed for specific audit requirements. This facilitates the use of audit trails and audit logs by not including information that could potentially be misleading or could make it more difficult to locate information of interest. Audit logs are reviewed and analyzed as often as needed to provide important information to organizations to facilitate risk-based decision making. [SP 800-92] provides guidance on security log management. |
link |
55 |
| NIST_SP_800-171_R2_3 |
.3.2 |
NIST_SP_800-171_R2_3.3.2 |
NIST SP 800-171 R2 3.3.2 |
Audit and Accountability |
Ensure that the actions of individual system users can be uniquely traced to those users, so they can be held accountable for their actions. |
Shared |
Microsoft and the customer share responsibilities for implementing this requirement. |
This requirement ensures that the contents of the audit record include the information needed to link the audit event to the actions of an individual to the extent feasible. Organizations consider logging for traceability including results from monitoring of account usage, remote access, wireless connectivity, mobile device connection, communications at system boundaries, configuration settings, physical access, nonlocal maintenance, use of maintenance tools, temperature and humidity, equipment delivery and removal, system component inventory, use of mobile code, and use of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). |
link |
41 |
| NIST_SP_800-53_R4 |
AU-11 |
NIST_SP_800-53_R4_AU-11 |
NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 4 AU-11 |
Audit And Accountability |
Audit Record Retention |
Shared |
n/a |
The organization retains audit records for [Assignment: organization-defined time period consistent with records retention policy] to provide support for after-the-fact investigations of security incidents and to meet regulatory and organizational information retention requirements.
Supplemental Guidance: Organizations retain audit records until it is determined that they are no longer needed for administrative, legal, audit, or other operational purposes. This includes, for example, retention and availability of audit records relative to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, subpoenas, and law enforcement actions. Organizations develop standard categories of audit records relative to such types of actions and standard response processes for each type of action. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) General Records Schedules provide federal policy on record retention. Related controls: AU-4, AU-5, AU-9, MP-6.
References: None. |
link |
4 |
| NIST_SP_800-53_R5 |
AU-11 |
NIST_SP_800-53_R5_AU-11 |
NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 AU-11 |
Audit and Accountability |
Audit Record Retention |
Shared |
n/a |
Retain audit records for [Assignment: organization-defined time period consistent with records retention policy] to provide support for after-the-fact investigations of incidents and to meet regulatory and organizational information retention requirements. |
link |
4 |
| NZ_ISM_v3.5 |
AC-18 |
NZ_ISM_v3.5_AC-18 |
NZISM Security Benchmark AC-18 |
Access Control and Passwords |
16.6.9 Events to be logged |
Customer |
n/a |
The events to be logged are key elements in the monitoring of the security posture of systems and contributing to reviews, audits, investigations and incident management. |
link |
20 |
| RBI_ITF_NBFC_v2017 |
3.1.g |
RBI_ITF_NBFC_v2017_3.1.g |
RBI IT Framework 3.1.g |
Information and Cyber Security |
Trails-3.1 |
|
n/a |
The IS Policy must provide for a IS framework with the following basic tenets:
Trails- NBFCs shall ensure that audit trails exist for IT assets satisfying its business requirements including regulatory and legal requirements, facilitating audit, serving as forensic evidence when required and assisting in dispute resolution. If an employee, for instance, attempts to access an unauthorized section, this improper activity should be recorded in the audit trail. |
link |
40 |
| SWIFT_CSCF_v2021 |
6.3 |
SWIFT_CSCF_v2021_6.3 |
SWIFT CSCF v2021 6.3 |
Detect Anomalous Activity to Systems or Transaction Records |
Database Integrity |
|
n/a |
Ensure the integrity of the database records for the SWIFT messaging interface and act upon results |
link |
12 |