How to Use audit trail in a Sentence
audit trail
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With bitcoin, there’s no oversight and no audit trail — and that’s supposed to be a plus?
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2021
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The blockchain can provide this immutable audit trail confirming the provenance of the source.
—Jemma Green, Forbes, 19 May 2021
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In one instance, the FDA claims, technicians had disabled the audit trail, run 80 covert tests, then turned the trail back on two days later.
—Katherine Eban, WIRED, 7 Aug. 2019
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The new software produces an audit trail that documents any changes made to the accounts.
—David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 4 Apr. 2018
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The development of the audit trail has often been caught in red tape and industry fights over who will pay for it.
—Dave Michaels, WSJ, 15 Sep. 2017
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The audit trail is years behind schedule and recently launched its first phase while still missing some key functions.
—Dave Michaels, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2018
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Is there an audit trail to see where data originated, how it was aggregated and how it is being used?
—Aaron Burciaga, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
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The audit trail would identify key details, including time of the recordings, the user and the identity of anyone who accessed the footage, according to the lawsuit.
—ABC News, 9 July 2021
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The audit trail identifies the time the footage was recorded; the user; the device name, ID and serial number; plus the identity of anyone accessing footage, the time it was accessed and how it was handled, the suit states.
—Aya Elamroussi and Kay Jones, CNN, 9 July 2021
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They’re also left without a single audit trail of how processes were executed, who was involved and what tools were used.
—Tina Huang, Forbes, 7 June 2022
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Organizations can record photo or video walkthroughs within the tool to create a full, secure audit trail.
—Dan Zitting, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021
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There are two keys to securing financial transactions: Oversight and an audit trail.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2021
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The auditors did note that there were no formal policies authorizing the fundraisers, or audit trails regarding the money.
—Mary Ellen Klas, miamiherald, 26 Jan. 2018
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Through a measure called a voter verifiable paper audit trail, voters can check that their vote was recorded correctly and there is a paper record.
—Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Nov. 2022
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All the questions and answers are recorded, creating an audit trail that allows regulators and courts to inspect how the data has been used and to penalize misuse.
—Alex Ryan, Quartz, 27 Nov. 2019
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One such advantage is entering data one time in one system that then updates all other systems and fields via an automation with an audit trail.
—John Reites, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
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The tool, revealed Tuesday, lets the public review a list of all the ways a photograph has been altered, essentially showing consumers an audit trail that will help vouch for an image’s validity.
—Jonathan Vanian, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2020
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On the election security side, the bill would result in the statewide transition toward universal paper ballots to guarantee a paper audit trail.
—CBS News, 30 Mar. 2021
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The intentional errors lead to bulk adjudication of ballots with no oversight, no transparency, and no audit trail.
—Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 14 Dec. 2020
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Rather, the transaction on the blockchain would eliminate high costs, provide a system for accurately logging the transactions, and process payments in real time with a verifiably true audit trail.
—Polina Marinova, Fortune, 4 May 2018
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The audit trail was also designed to ingest details about stockbrokers’ customers, including their names, dates of birth and Social Security numbers.
—Dave Michaels, WSJ, 3 Oct. 2017
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And the whole system will need to provide an audit trail of user actions—including who initially marked the classification level, where, and when, as well as classification upgrades and downgrades.
—Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 10 July 2018
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Doing this effectively requires maintaining control over all their data, minimizing the surface area of exposure and enabling a rich audit trail.
—Joe Gaska, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2021
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Regarding election security, the measure will lead to a statewide transition toward universal paper ballots to guarantee a paper audit trail.
—BostonGlobe.com, 7 Apr. 2021
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To gain vital transparency, businesses must have visibility into the algorithms, composed of machine learning and business rules, driving the decisions to provide a complete audit trail.
—Rik Chomko, Forbes, 21 June 2022
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At the plant’s quality-control laboratory, an investigator searched the grid of computer audit trails, using his rudimentary college Mandarin.
—Katherine Eban, WIRED, 7 Aug. 2019
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Organizations gain instant audit trail visibility across all documents to ease control oversight and show evidence of compliance.
—Antti Nivala, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
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In addition, a consolidated audit trail that tracks activity across both on-premises networks and cloud environments provides better context and improved detection of anomalies and malicious behavior patterns.
—Hed Kovetz, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2021
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Workflow automation can also enable organizations to track information version history and immediately view an audit trail.
—Antti Nivala, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
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Enterprise applications have traditionally supported basic security measures that include password authentication, authorization based on user privileges and an audit trail.
—Shankar Kambhampaty, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
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