# Logging, Monitoring & Audit

**Organization:** {{COMPANY_LEGAL_NAME}}
**Document owner:** {{POLICY_OWNER_ROLE}}
**Approved by:** {{APPROVER_NAME}}, {{APPROVER_TITLE}}
**Version:** {{VERSION}} · **Effective:** {{EFFECTIVE_DATE}} · **Next review:** {{REVIEW_DATE}}
**Classification:** Internal

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## 1. Purpose

This policy gives {{COMPANY_LEGAL_NAME}} trustworthy evidence for security, troubleshooting, and compliance by collecting and analysing the right logs from {{CRITICAL_SYSTEMS}} and the services that handle {{DATA_TYPES}} across {{GEO_SCOPE}}.

## 2. Scope

This policy covers application, system, network, authentication, and cloud-provider logs across all environments. It applies to the {{LOCATION}} workforce, and only managed {{DEVICE_TYPES}} may reach the central logging tools.

## 3. Policy statements

### 3.1 Collection and centralisation

Logs are forwarded to a central, access-controlled log platform. Security-relevant events carry a timestamp, user, event type, and source address, and are tagged with the environment and application so they can be traced.

### 3.2 Retention and protection

We keep security logs available online for immediate use and archive them for a longer period, storing archives within {{GEO_SCOPE}} where required. Write access to the logging system is restricted, and tampering with or deleting logs is prohibited and monitored.

### 3.3 Real-time alerting

We alert on the events that matter most: failed administrative logins, privilege escalations, critical errors, and anomalous access to {{CRITICAL_SYSTEMS}} or {{DATA_TYPES}}. Alerts route to an on-call channel backed by documented runbooks, with clear escalation paths.

### 3.4 Audit and review

Each month we review alert metrics and a random sample of logs, including sources tied to {{CRITICAL_SYSTEMS}} and {{DATA_TYPES}}, and produce a periodic report summarising anomalies and the actions taken. Confirmed anomalies are investigated under our incident response process.

### 3.5 Clock synchronisation

Servers and {{DEVICE_TYPES}} synchronise to a trusted time source, and we alert on meaningful clock drift so that timestamps across systems stay consistent for investigations.

### 3.6 Incident reporting

Personnel report suspected security or privacy incidents promptly so they can be triaged, and lessons learned feed back into how we log and alert.

## 4. Roles and responsibilities

| Role | Responsibility |
|---|---|
| Executive sponsor | Accountable for the program; approves this policy |
| {{POLICY_OWNER_ROLE}} | Maintains this policy and its procedures |
| Managers | Enforce the policy within their teams |
| All personnel | Comply; report issues promptly |

## 5. Compliance and exceptions

The central platform should receive the large majority of target logs and the alert queue should be triaged within agreed timeframes; for teams larger than {{EMPLOYEE_COUNT}} we widen sampling across {{CRITICAL_SYSTEMS}} tiers. Systems that cannot forward logs must export and upload them daily, noted in the asset list with any {{GEO_SCOPE}} constraints. Logging gaps or unreviewed alerts are escalated to incident response. Non-compliance may result in disciplinary action. Exceptions require documented risk acceptance by {{APPROVER_TITLE}} and are time-limited and reviewed.

## 6. Review

This policy is reviewed at least annually and when significant change occurs. We add new log sources and refine alert logic based on incident learnings, {{INDUSTRY}} risks, and any changes affecting {{GEO_SCOPE}}.

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*Aligned to ISO/IEC 27001:2022. {{COMPANY_LEGAL_NAME}} is not affiliated with or endorsed by the relevant standards body; full standard text is copyrighted and is not reproduced here.*