December 2021
Beginner
550 pages
20h 48m
English
At this point, you have learned how users are identified (step 1), authenticated (step 2), and authorized (step 3). Now it’s time for the last part of the access control process: accountability. Accountability involves tracing an action to a person or process to know who made the changes to the system or data, which is important for conducting audits and investigations as well as tracing errors and mistakes. Accountability answers the question, “Can you hold users responsible for what they do on the system?”
Log files, which are a key ingredient to accountability, are records that detail who logged on to the system, when they logged on, and what information or resources they used. In the ...