As we're doing more and more engineering work from different places, "the office" is no longer a static physical location. It could be home at the kitchen counter, at the airport, at a coffee shop, or even back in your childhood home. With this distribution of the workforce, companies have a duty to their stakeholders and to compliance protocols to keep audit logs for engineer activities.
In this article, we'll go over the ways in which Zero Assumptions provides security and data for unexpected activities performed by engineers.
Audit logs as insurance and assurance
Audit logs provide an insurance for tracking down errors and unexpected activities being performed on company databases and servers. When something unexpected happens, designated operators only need to log in to view audit logs and interpret the logs. From there, they can report out to stakeholders using real data rather than perceptions and assumptions.
Because Zero Assumptions is an on-prem solution, companies determine where to store logs and for how long. This means that companies have a high level of ownership over the compliance standards that they must uphold. Zero Assumptions gives that freedom back to companies, rather than dictating how data is stored.
With audit logs and control over data storage, companies can be assured that they have a solution in place in case of bad actors, breaches, and human error.
Bonus use cases for audit logs
Audit logs can do a lot more than provide a written record for investigation of unexpected activities. Here are some additional ideas for how to use audit log data:
- Reveal inefficient database requests
- Provide aggregation of activity for database and server cost analysis
- Compile work hours to determine engineers' work habits (can help with exploring experimental programs like the 4-day work week, etc.)
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