Questions tagged [audit]
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Are audit and log exactly doing the same things in a software system?
I've seen that some of software systems have functionality of audit and log. Both of those functionality seem that they are just doing the same things - records all the users's actions behind the scene. There are respective tables of audit and log…
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Does FFMpeg support gpu acceleration of media encoding/decoding?
I was wondering if ffmpeg supported gpu acceleration. I was reading on their websites and came across contradicting information.
http://www.ffmpeg.org/general.html#Video-Codecs
-H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10 (VDPAU acceleration)…
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agile / scrum and functional specs
I work in a small team of four devs, one domain expert and one manager. We are looking to move to using scrum to try and formalise our processes.
From what I understand of agile, it seems to be close(ish) to what we are doing anyway. We have a brief…
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Database Auditing: "Updated At" Null or Not Null?
Currently, we've been working on the architecture team on defining the database models. What has been troubling me is my superior's advice when it comes to working with audit fields.
He advocates for the updated_at and updated_by fields to be…
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Audit trail for Rails app
I am looking to add an audit trail to our Rails app. At the moment, I am trying to lock down my requirements and determine the appropriate software architecture.
Our website gets about one hundred million page requests a week, and growing. We…
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Using audit trail as time machine?
I would like to do
SELECT * TABLE t (using data from 1st of march 2012)
I already have a nice audit trail of all tables in the database. It basically makes a copy of all rows that change, storing all columns of the changed row in an hstore column.…
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Should I really need to implement event sourcing is this case?
An example of use case when event sourcing is applicable here whose excerpt is:
Say, something went wrong in your app and as a result, a user gets
blocked for abuse but that user claims to not have done anything to
break rules. Now you can go…
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Audit trails and entity relationships
I'm working on an order system and implementing an audit log. Two main concerns are:
1) While auditing a line item , you should only see audits for the line item
2) While auditing an order, you should see audits pertaining to the header information…
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How to maintain productivity while staying SOC 2 compliant?
I'm working for a software company (offering 99% SaaS stuff) that needs to be SOC 2 compliant – in my understanding simply because the company's clients require it. I've recently been told that (among other things) this means that any and all…
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Should audit records have their own id?
I'm creating audit tables to track changes made to some of my crucial tables and I'm wondering whether there's a point to history rows having their own id. Here's how my interfaces look like:
public interface ITrackedDbEntity : IDbEntity
{
Guid…
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Where to store the "Who" and "When" of a Command and/or Event?
So much of the benefits around Event Sourcing apply to the being able to audit the system and show an aggregate's state throughout its life. However, I haven't been able to find any examples of where to record who issued the command and when with…
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Good practice to save the last time user accessed the app
Using a JWT authentication, the user doesn't have to log in each time he uses my app.
I would like to save in DB the last time the user used/opened the app.
Technically, I have a set of REST API that could audit each request and save in database…
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Software Health Check Audit Template / Checklist
Does anyone know of a template / checklist that can be used to conduct a software health check. My team supports a number of legacy applications and we have been asked to present a score card to senior management on the health of the applications.…
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Is taking a snapshot of UI to compare the data considered a good desicion?
If I have a complex attendance project to track the employees attendance and leaving, and according to that they get overtime money through a workflow.
The schedule is something like that :
6 weeks clickable on the top and the dates of the month in…
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How to audit an Android application (not rooted) without having access to its source?
How can I check if an Android application running on a not rooted device is "secure" without knowing its source?
I would look for:
Plain text in Web-Requests (wireshark and emulator)
SQL-injection (in EditTexts...)
Doing stuff, that isn't always…
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