19 December 2024
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What's the Purpose of an Audit Trail?
Audit trails are a tool for ensuring authenticity and trustworthiness, by facilitating transparency, accountability, and risk management – continually providing information on who accessed specific documentation, how they used it, and when it happened.
Digitisation
Digitally filed documents are the most effective and controllable document management solution, with data security considerably enhanced by BS-10008 compliant audit trails. BS-10008 compliance covers all aspects of the digitisation process to give your digital documents legal admissibility.
The BS-10008 audit trail includes essential details such as document selection, authorisation, scanning, delivery, verification, quality control, and destruction of the original document.
Document Management
When a file is stored in an Document Management system, metadata is generated – recording information like the creation date, modification dates, user engagement, and document type for just a few examples.
As users interact with a document, the audit trail creates version histories by linking changes in the content with metadata. Version histories display how the document has changed over time, and records who has changed it.
Workflow Audit Trails
A workflow audit trail tracks the movement of information throughout an organisation, recording how automatic processes are contributing to outcomes, as well as making it easier to identify potential bottlenecks.
This practice displays that information is being handled compliantly, and provides transparency, accountability, and control over operations.
