RE: Glossary Definition for Audit(ing) [Was: RE: AG004 Closure Sought]

Joe/Hav/Memma

 

1 - We should prefix auditing with the word "security" as that is what
we are defining.  Without that qualifier in the glossary, an independent
evaluator might question why we are only auditing "security events" and
not understand the difference between security auditing and generalized
logging used to say audit/track a transactions history.

 

2 - Would you all consider "policy enforcement decisions" to be a
super-set of authZ?  Personally I would, but could see that others might
read this as the AuthN/AuthZ twins missing a sibling.

 

3 - You'll note I've added security as a prefix to the phrase "audit
trail" in text below.  Again, the term audit trail without this, IMO has
to include any generalized event logging I care to throw into the
application just in case. 

 

4. Consider the following (minor) changes to the text:

 

Security Auditing: A service that reliably and securely records
security-related

Events, such as authentication events, policy enforcement decisions,

and any general event that deviated from an established norm to imply a
security relevant event has taken place. The resulting security audit
trail may then be used to detect attacks, confirm compliance with
policy, deter abuse of authority or other purposes

 

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Darran Rolls                      http://www.waveset.com

Waveset Technologies Inc          drolls@waveset.com 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Hui [mailto:Joseph.Hui@exodus.net] 
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 8:47 PM
To: Prafullchandra, Hemma; www-ws-arch@w3.org
Subject: RE: Glossary Definition for Audit(ing) [Was: RE: AG004 Closure
S ought]

 

Thanks again, Hemma.

 

I'm also noting your A+B as Text B embellished.

If the similarity shared by yours and Hoa's is also shared

by popular sentiment, then I think we're just aboutt there.

 

Joe Hui

Exodus, a Cable & Wireless service

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 -----Original Message-----
From: Prafullchandra, Hemma [mailto:hprafullchandra@verisign.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 6:02 PM
To: www-ws-arch@w3.org
Subject: RE: Glossary Definition for Audit(ing) [Was: RE: AG004 Closure
S ought]

	Text A: 

	  Auditing provides passive tracking and logging of 
	  security-related activities, incidents, and events 
	   (such as authentication events, unproven claims, or bad 
	  signature occurrences). Administrator can securely managed 
	  and analyze these audit records to take appropriate action 
	   against antagonists. 

	Text B:

	  Audit: A service that reliably records security-related events

	  for future reference. The resulting audit trail may be used to

	  detect attacks, confirm compliance with policy, deter abuse

	  of authority or other purposes. 

	 

	Final:A+B:

	Auditing: A service that reliably and securely records
security-related

	events (such as authentication events, policy enforcement
decisions,

	abnormal (deviations from the norm) events). The resulting audit
trail

	may be used to detect attacks, confirm compliance with policy,
deter

	abuse of authority or other purposes. 

	 

	Unless there was something specific in A, about the players
involved that you

	wanted to capture or the nature of this activity. Feel free to
polish A+B further

	but I really think this captures the essence of what we want to
say given all the other restrictions!

	 

	hemma