Making Use of Audit Trails in Government Records Management: The Importance of Tracking Records’ Histories

Making Use of Audit Trails in Government Records Management: The Importance of Tracking Records’ Histories

Image of a person holding the word 'audit' in the palm of their handIn the complex world of government records management, the ability to track who has accessed and what has happened to individual records is invaluable. An audit trail—a step-by-step record that chronicles the life cycle of a document or record, capturing every interaction and modification made to it—lets you do just that. Audit trails work by logging each action taken on a record, including who accessed it, what changes were made, when these activities occurred, and the order in which they happened.

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