Security Compliance Auditing

Audit procedures, compliance frameworks, evidence collection, and reporting.

Overview

Security audits verify compliance and effectiveness of controls.

Audit Types

Compliance Frameworks

NIST CSF:
1. Identify → Asset management
2. Protect → Access control
3. Detect → Monitoring
4. Respond → Incident response
5. Recover → Recovery planning

Audit Checklist

## Access Control
- [ ] MFA enabled for admin access
- [ ] Least privilege implemented
- [ ] Regular access reviews
- [ ] Offboarding procedures

## Data Protection
- [ ] Encryption at rest
- [ ] Encryption in transit
- [ ] Data classification
- [ ] Retention policies

## Monitoring
- [ ] Logging enabled
- [ ] SIEM configured
- [ ] Alerting in place
- [ ] Regular reviews

Evidence Collection

# Automated evidence collection
def collect_evidence():
    evidence = {
        "access_logs": collect_access_logs(),
        "configurations": collect_configs(),
        "policies": collect_policies(),
        "training_records": collect_training(),
        "incidents": collect_incidents()
    }
    return evidence

Audit Report Template

# Security Audit Report

## Executive Summary
- Audit Date: YYYY-MM-DD
- Scope: [systems]
- Overall Rating: [Compliant/Partial/Non-compliant]

## Findings
### Critical
- Finding 1: [Description]
- Remediation: [Action]

### High
- Finding 2: [Description]
- Remediation: [Action]

## Recommendations
1. Implement MFA
2. Update policies
3. Enhance monitoring

Practice

Conduct a mock security audit using a compliance framework.