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Chapter 1 - information Security overview
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1.6.4 Monitoring and auditing:
This aspect is one of the important aspects because it gives the
administrator the ability to monitor the overall user behaviors, organize
roles, initiate diagnostics tasks and apply different configurations
additionally track and log any abnormal user activities.
The sensitivity and the importance of this mechanism makes it also a very
delicious feast to attackers that might try to gain higher privileges or
disclose power user information benefiting from miss configuration.