Title: Logging and Monitoring Policy
Document ID: [POL-LOGGING-001]
Version: 0.1 Draft
Status: Draft
Owner: CISO (Paul Jenkins)
Approver: CEO (Paul Hague)
Classification: Internal
Effective date: [DD Month YYYY]
Review date: [DD Month YYYY]

# Logging and Monitoring Policy

## Purpose

This policy defines BlackDice's expectations for generating, protecting, reviewing, and using logs and monitoring data to support security and operational oversight.

## Scope

This policy applies to in-scope applications, cloud services, Kubernetes environments, endpoints, identity systems, CI/CD platforms, and security monitoring processes.

## Objectives

- support detection of security events and operational issues
- provide evidence for investigation, review, and assurance
- protect monitoring data against unauthorised access or tampering

## Principles / Policy Statements

Logging and monitoring must be proportionate to the risk and criticality of the relevant service or system.

Security-relevant activities should be logged where feasible, including authentication events, privileged actions, administrative changes, and significant production or security events.

Logging arrangements for cloud-native and containerised services must consider distributed architectures, ephemeral workloads, and centralised analysis needs.

Logs and telemetry that may contain sensitive information must be handled and retained according to approved requirements.

Alerting and monitoring processes must support timely review and escalation of material issues.

## Roles and Responsibilities

- [Role] must define monitoring expectations and oversight arrangements.
- System owners must ensure adequate logging exists for their services.
- Operational teams must review alerts and respond through defined processes.

## Compliance / Exceptions

Gaps in required logging or monitoring coverage must be tracked, risk-assessed, and remediated or formally accepted.

## Monitoring and Review

This policy should be reviewed through control testing, incident handling, alert tuning, audit, and management review.

## Related Documents

- Information Security Policy
- Logging and Alerting Standard
- Security Incident Handling Procedure
- Incident Register Template

## Version Control

| Version | Date | Description of Change | Author |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 0.1 Draft | [DD Month YYYY] | Initial draft. | [Name or Role] |