The word audit trail is used often in relation to the Structured Digital Database. What does it mean?
An audit trail is “a chronological record of system activities that is sufficient to enable the reconstruction and examination of the sequence of environments and activities surrounding or leading to an operation, procedure, or event in a security-relevant transaction from inception to final results”. As such, making an entry, deleting or editing it must all be traceable. This is a critical pre-requisite; applications certified for regulatory compliance, like Affinisio(SDD) integrate detailed trails for this purpose.
