Skip to content

Configuration Audit

What is Configuration Audit?

An examination of system configurations to verify they comply with security baselines, standards, and organizational requirements.

Audit and Assurance

What the standards actually require on configuration audit

Requirements naming configuration audit across this standard, quoted from the control text.

Implement configuration management per ISO 10007 and the AQAP 2110 supplement covering: configuration identification (baselines + part numbers + revision marks + serial numbers), configuration control (engineering change proposals + change requests + deviation...

AQAP2110-4 · Configuration Management and Change Control

Questions people ask about configuration audit

What is Configuration Audit?
An examination of system configurations to verify they comply with security baselines, standards, and organizational requirements.
Why is Configuration Audit important for compliance?
Configuration Audit is a key concept in Audit and Assurance. Understanding configuration audit helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Configuration Audit?
Configuration Audit appears in the requirement text of NATO AQAP 2110 - Quality Assurance Requirements for Design, Development, and Production. Across these standards we have identified 1 control that names it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Configuration Audit?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how configuration audit applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 686 frameworks.

See how Configuration Audit applies across compliance frameworks

Our platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings. Explore how this concept is addressed across standards.

Written and maintained by Gerard Blokdyk, The Art of Service.