Accounting Flashcards
What is accounting?
Security measure that ensures all user activities during a communication or transaction are properly tracked and recorded
Why is accounting important?
Create an audit trail
● Provides a chronological record of all user activities that can be used to
trace changes, unauthorized access, or anomalies back to a source or
point in time
■ Maintain regulatory compliance
● Maintains a comprehensive record of all users’ activities
Conduct forensic analysis
● Uses detailed accounting and event logs that can help cybersecurity
experts understand what happened, how it happened, and how to prevent similar incidents from occurring again
■ Perform resource optimization
● Organizations can optimize system performance and minimize costs by
tracking resource utilization and allocation decisions
■ Achieve user accountability
● Thorough accounting system ensures users’ actions are monitored and logged , deterring potential misuse and promoting adherence to the organization’s policies
What Technologies are used to achieve accounting
■ Syslog Servers
● Used to aggregate logs from various network devices and systems so that system administrators can analyze them to detect patterns or anomalies in the organization’s systems
■ Network Analysis Tools
● Used to capture and analyze network traffic so that network
administrators can gain detailed insights into all the data moving within a
network
■ Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Systems
● Provides us with a real-time analysis of security alerts generated by
various hardware and software infrastructure in an organization
