Information Audit

From Regional Knowledge Resource Kit

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 record changed. It can also include information about the actual changes that were made. It can enable the reconstruction and examination of the end states of data, and reconstruct the intermediate states that the data went through before the final state was established.

Information audit trails are sometimes very important due to government regulations, such as Sarbanes-Oxley (21 CFR 11) in US. Also, they are considered crucial for customer satisfaction and legal purposes [1].

The "audit tracking" space in information technology consists of many companies that provide services and products in this space.

For more information on conducting an information audit see Sue Henczel's papers here or here