LOG-001: Audit Log Retention Settings
- Platform
- Google Workspace
- Category
- Logging, Alerting & Monitoring
- Severity
- High
- Zero Trust pillar
- Visibility & Analytics (weight 2)
- Golden fixtures
- 3
- Branch coverage
- Observed: fixtures prove the verdicts they exercise
- Provenance
- baseline
What it checks
Audit logs should be retained for an adequate period to support incident investigation and compliance requirements. Default retention varies by Workspace edition
Recommended value
Audit log retention of 12 months or longer; extended via BigQuery export for long-term retention
Remediation
Admin Console > Reporting > Audit and investigation > Review log availability. Configure BigQuery export via Admin Console > Reporting > BigQuery export for long-term retention
Fixture-proven verdicts
Every verdict below is proven by a golden fixture in the module's gating test suite. This table derives from the last green run; it cannot be edited by hand.
| Scenario | Expected verdict |
|---|---|
| clean | PASS |
| known-bad | WARN |
| throttled | Not Assessed |
Framework mappings
- NIST SP 800-53
- AU-11, AU-4
- CIS Benchmark
- 7.1
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1070, T1562.008