Audit Event Reporting
During the last few decades systematic audit record generation (also called audit event reporting) can only be described as ad hoc. Ironically, in the early days of mainframe and mini-computing with large scale, single-vendor, custom software systems from companies such as IBM and Hewlett Packard, auditing was considered a mission-critical function. Over the last thirty years, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software applications and components, and micro computers have gradually replaced custom software and hardware as more cost-effective business management solutions.…
During this transition, the critical nature of audit event reporting gradually transformed into low priority customer requirements. Software consumers, having little else to fall back on, have simply accepted the lesser standards as normal. The consumer licenses of existing COTS software disclaim all liability for security, performance and data integrity issues.
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