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This article focuses on audit trails, tracing, and logging — and how I help you tell them apart before an auditor and your on-call engineer end up arguing about words that don't mean what either of them thinks they mean.
Audit Trail, Tracing & Logging
Last week's post was about who can reach the database. This week's question is the natural next one: once they're in, what can you actually prove they did?
"We have logs" is the most dangerous sentence in an audit response — because everyone in the room means something different by it.
