Role Responsibilities for Audit Administration
In Trusted Extensions, auditing is the responsibility of separate roles.
The root role assigns audit flags to users
and rights profiles, and edits system files, such as the audit_warn script.
The System Administrator role sets up the disks and the network
of audit storage. This role can also review the audit records.
The Security Administrator role decides what is to be audited
and configures auditing. The initial setup team created this role by completingHow to Create the Security Administrator Role in Trusted Extensions.
Note - A system only records the events in audit classes that the security
administrator has preselected. Therefore, any subsequent audit review can
only consider the events that have been recorded. As a result of misconfiguration,
attempts to breach the security of the system can go undetected, or the administrator
is unable to detect the user who is responsible for an attempted breach of
security. Administrators must regularly analyze audit trails to check for
breaches of security.