Patent ID: 8484718

Claim:
A method for enabling assured compliance records using fine grained auditing of network traffic, the method comprising: (a) establishing, by an appliance, a transport layer virtual private network connection with a client operated by a first user; (b) receiving, by the appliance via the connection, a request from the client identifying a resource; (c) determining, by the appliance, that the request meets at least one security condition; (d) transmitting, by the appliance to an audit log, a record of the request, the appliance holding the request from accessing the resource until receiving confirmation from the audit log that the record of the request is successfully logged; (e) receiving, by the appliance from the audit log, a confirmation that the record of the request was successfully logged; and (f) granting, by the appliance, the first user access via the appliance to the resource identified in the request responsive to receiving the confirmation that the record of the request was successfully logged.