What this policy is
Defines what events are logged, how long logs are retained, who reviews them, and the protections that prevent log tampering.
Why every organization needs one
Logs are the only forensic record of an incident after the fact. Without a policy mandating retention + protection, you discover gaps the day you need them most.
What a competent Audit And Monitoring Policy typically contains
- Purpose and scope
- Roles and responsibilities
- Definitions
- In-scope event categories (auth, admin, privileged actions, data access)
- Retention period and storage location
- Tamper-evidence and access control on log stores
- Review cadence and alerting
- Review cadence (typically annual) and version control
- Approval, sign-off and effective date
How iCompaas tracks this policy
The icompaas policy-doc producer manages this document through an 8-state lifecycle: draft → generated → internal_qa → customer_review → in_review → approved → signed (with rejected as a terminal side-state). The producer publishes a policy_doc_audit_and_monitoring_policy_signed compliance finding once at least one document of this kind reaches the signed state for the account being assessed; the finding then rolls up into every compliance framework that references this policy (see the table below).
Compliance frameworks that reference this policy
The icompaas compliance controls library links every policy document to the controls in each framework that require, evidence, or otherwise rely on it. Below: every control across every framework in the iCompaas catalogue that names this policy as part of its evidence base. Each control links to its own dedicated page with auditor-view content + implementation guidance.
| Framework | Control | Title | Component |
|---|---|---|---|
| ISO/IEC 27001:2022 | A.8.15 | Logging | Technological controls |
| ISO/IEC 27001:2022 | A.8.16 | Monitoring activities | Technological controls |
| ISO/IEC 42001:2023 | A.4.3 | Data resources | Organizational controls |
3 controls across 2 frameworks reference this policy.
About this page
This article is part of the iCompaas Policy Documents library — one page per signed-document type the icompaas policy-doc producer tracks for customer accounts. The article is intentionally framework-agnostic: a customer signing a policy of this kind gets the same regulatory benefit across every framework that references it.