Auditing Computer Security The main points I will be going over will be What is Auditing, what is an audit policy, audits and volumes, planning the policy, implementing the policy, the event viewer, and the security log. Auditing is tracking activities of users by recording selected types of events in the security log of a server or workstation. Auditing is a function of windows nt for maintaining network security. With auditing you can track user activities and system-wide events on a network, such as: the action performed, the user who performed the action, and the date and time of the action. What is the Audit Policy?