# Lessons in logging: chopping down security risks using audit trails

DevFeed: [Lessons in logging: chopping down security risks using audit trails](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/lessons-in-logging-chopping-down-security-risks-using-audit-trails-29178.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.latacora.com/blog/2023/11/28/lessons-in-logging-chopping-down-security-risks-using-audit-trails/>)

Published: 2023-11-28T15:30:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Latacora](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/latacora.md>)

Topics: [Logging](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/logging.md>), [audit](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/audit.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [Architecture & Design](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/architecture-design.md>)

Tags: [audit](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/audit.md>), [logging](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/logging.md>), [logs](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/logs.md>), [secure-by-design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/secure-by-design.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>)

## AI overview

This first post in a series explains logging and audit trails from a security perspective. It introduces secure logging requirements and describes how logs can support threat identification, incident investigation, remediation, and tracking user access or changes over defined time windows.

## Source excerpt

This post is the first in a series about logging and audit trails from a security perspective. For the next post in the series, see Lessons in Logging, Part 2: Mapping Your Path to a Mature Security Program with Logs and Audit Trails At Latacora, we bootstrap security practices. We partner with companies that frequently have minimally developed security programs, work with them to figure out the right security practices for their current size, and then help them evolve and scale those practices as their business matures.