• Audit Trails: Maintain detailed audit trails or logs that record significant security-related events, activities, and transactions within systems handling CJI. This includes information such as user activities, system access, modifications, security incidents, and other relevant events.
• Audit Generation and Review: Regularly generate, review, and analyze audit logs to detect and investigate security incidents, anomalies, and policy violations. The audit review process should be performed by authorized personnel to ensure compliance and identify potential security issues.
• Time Synchronization: Implement time synchronization mechanisms across systems to ensure accurate and consistent timestamps for audit log entries. This allows for accurate correlation of events during incident investigations or forensic analysis.
• Protection and Retention of Audit Logs: Protect audit logs from unauthorized modification, deletion, or tampering. Ensure that logs are retained for an appropriate period of time as required by the CJIS Security Policy and any applicable legal or regulatory requirements.
• Access to Audit Logs: Restrict access to audit logs to authorized personnel only. Implement access controls to ensure that only authorized individuals can view and modify audit logs.
• Event and Incident Reporting: Establish procedures for reporting and documenting security events, incidents, and policy violations. Promptly report incidents to the appropriate authorities and follow incident response procedures outlined in the CJIS Security Policy.
• Audit Log Analysis and Reporting: Regularly analyze audit logs for security events, anomalies, and indicators of compromise. Generate reports summarizing audit findings, including any identified security weaknesses, vulnerabilities, or policy violations.
• Segregation of Duties: Implement separation of duties and least privilege principles to ensure that individuals with administrative access do not have sole control over audit logs. This helps prevent unauthorized modifications or deletions of audit data.
• Training and Awareness: Provide training and awareness programs for personnel on the importance of audit and accountability requirements, including the proper handling and use of audit logs. Ensure that individuals understand their responsibilities in maintaining audit trails and following audit procedures.

By adhering to these audit and accountability requirements, organizations can effectively monitor and track activities related to CJI, detect security incidents, and demonstrate compliance with the CJIS Security Policy.

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