IBM White Paper Sample

When you walk into a meeting in a corporate office, the first thing you’re asked to do is sign in at the front desk. Among other things, this ensures that the company has a full log of anyone who came into the building, which may be useful to track down and investigate “who done it” when something goes wrong. This log usually records who you are, when you came in, and when you left. The same process is true for any database, and the first category of auditing that is required in most environments is a full audit trail of anyone who has signed onto the database.

You will need to record two events for this audit category: an event for the sign-on and an event for the sign-off.