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CCI-000159

CCI-000159 Definition

Use internal system clocks to generate time stamps for audit records.

Status
Type	CheckType.technical

Master Assessment Datasheet

Implementation Guidance

The organization being inspected/assessed configures the information system to use internal system clocks to generate time stamps for audit records. For information system components that have applicable STIGs or SRGs, the organization being inspected/assessed must comply with the STIG/SRG guidance that pertains to CCI 159.

Validation Procedures

The organization conducting the inspection/assessment examines the information system to ensure that the organization being inspected/assessed has configured the information system to use internal system clocks to generate time stamps for audit records. For information system components that have applicable STIGs or SRGs, the organization conducting the inspection/assessment evaluates the components to ensure that the organization being inspected/assessed has configured the information system in compliance with the applicable STIGs and SRGs pertaining to CCI 159.

Compelling Evidence

1.) Applicable STIG/SRG checks

Related Controls

The controls below (if any) were marked by NIST as being related to CCI-000159.

Control	Description
AU-8	The information system: a: Uses internal system clocks to generate time stamps for audit records; and b: Records time stamps for audit records that can be mapped to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) or Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and meets [organization-defined granularity of time measurement].