Audit trail or audit log is a chronological sequence of audit records, each of which contains evidence directly pertaining to and resulting from execution of a business process or system function.
Audit records typically result from activities such as transactions or communications by individual people, systems, accounts or other entities.
Wikipedia defines an audit trail as "a record showing who has accessed a computer system and what operations he or she has performed during a given period of time."
CloudCover terms, the audit trail means a record of both completed and attempted accesses and service or data, forming a logical path linking a sequence of events, used to trace the transactions that have affected the contents of a record. It also represents a chronological insuring record of system activities to enable the reconstruction and examination of the sequence of event changes in an event result.
Within liability issues of the audit trail, as many times in the case of a dispute, the audit trail can work as evidence toward the proof of an event.
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