Audit Readiness and Logging Questions

Designing systems to be audit ready and producing reliable tamper resistant audit trails. Topics include immutable audit logging approaches, secure log collection and aggregation pipelines, indexing and search for operational and forensic analysis, secure storage and access controls for logs, retention and deletion policies, log integrity and chain of custody, privacy aware redaction and retention design, integration with security information and event management systems, monitoring and alerting driven by logs, generating evidence and control mappings for third party audits, and operational practices for audit preparation and response.