| It is critical when a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required; it takes action to mitigate the failure. If the system were to continue processing without auditing enabled, actions can be taken on the system that cannot be tracked and recorded for later forensic analysis.
Audit processing failures include; software/hardware errors, failures in the audit capturing mechanisms, and audit storage capacity being reached or exceeded.
In many system configurations, the disk space allocated to the auditing system is separate from the disks allocated for the operating system; therefore, this may not result in a system outage. This forces the application to detect and take actions. |
