Control

Require the developer of the system or system component to minimize the use of personally identifiable information in development and test environments.

Discussion

In support of better incident response and the ability to more quickly reconstruct security-related actions, identifying specific requirements for secure logging facilitates the ability to connect application-produced audit event logs with operational data. Event types are consistent with the event types defined in [AU-02](#au-2).

Related controls

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