Maxwell has established a set of guidelines that we believe are industry best practice in database and data auditing.

These guidelines can be customised for specific requirements:

Independent Responsibility. The team responsible for auditing must be distinct from the team that is administering and using the data management system. There must be no possible areas of conflict.

Keep the Data Audit System Independent. The data audit system needs to be independent so that nothing or no one should be able to alter an audit trail.

Make it scalable, extensible and efficient. The data auditing process must accommodate growth and the addition of new data resources. Keep its operation overhead low, so that extending or scaling its use is cost effective.

Make it flexible. Audit requirements are commonly different for each company. The Maxwell audit process can respond quickly and easily to those changes.