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Description

This PR implements Issue #471, completely overhauling the existing audit.service.ts to transition it from a basic logger into a secure, tamper-evident, and compliant enterprise-grade audit trail system.

The service now enforces cryptographic sequencing on all audit logs, introduces blockchain anchoring placeholders for high-risk financial events, and builds out the necessary infrastructure for GDPR/SOC2 compliance reporting.


Key Changes

Security & Cryptography

  • Cryptographic Ledger Chaining: Implemented sequential SHA-256 hashing. Each audit record is now tightly coupled with the hash of the preceding record (previousHash), rendering historical logs completely tamper-evident.
  • Integrity Verification: Added an automated validation utility to scan logs and detect any un-authorized database modifications or broken chains.
  • Blockchain Anchoring Engine: Introduced the IBlockchainAnchorProvider interface to anchor high-priority financial operations (e.g., withdrawals) onto a decentralized ledger simulation.

Schema & Compliance

  • Context Expansion: Upgraded the audit payload schema to strictly track contextual variables: IP addresses, user agents, fine-grained actor roles, and structural state deltas.
  • Compliance Exporters: Added dedicated controllers and services to export structured audit reports tailored for GDPR (Right to be Forgotten tracking/Anonymization boundaries) and SOC2 (Access control auditing).

Performance & Operations

  • Sub-Second Filtering: Optimized index definitions targeting timestamp, action, and actor fields to keep searching limits under 1 second.
  • Retention Engine: Introduced a automated clean-up service to securely prune low-priority tracking metrics while archiving critical records permanently.
  • Event Replay Capability: Designed a deterministic event replay mechanic to reconstruct state profiles during forensic debug sessions.

How Has This Been Tested?

  • Unit Tests: Verified hashing chain logic, genesis block generation, and tampering detection utilities.
  • Integration Tests: Confirmed that sub-second queries hold up against mock high-throughput volumes.
  • Manual Verification: Tested end-to-end event writing triggered by mockup financial workflows.

Checklist

  • My code follows the code style guidelines of this project.
  • I have verified that all critical operations are capturing logs.
  • Database migrations/indices have been updated and verified for sub-second performance.
  • Hashing logic prevents unauthorized ledger rewriting.
  • New and existing unit tests pass locally with my changes.

Closes: #471

- Add audit.types.ts: AuditEvent, AuditStatus enum (SUCCESS/FAILED/CRITICAL),
  AuditActor, and IBlockchainAnchorProvider interface
- Extend AuditContext with role and status fields; include both in SHA-256 chain
- audit-anchor.service.ts: MockAnchorProvider now implements IBlockchainAnchorProvider
  (anchorHash method), decoupled from legacy AnchorProvider interface
- audit.service.ts: eventId (record.id), actor role, and status are hashed and
  stored; verifyIntegrity() recomputes using _role/_status from details
- audit.controller.ts: REST handlers for search, export, integrity, replay,
  compliance report, GDPR redact, and blockchain anchoring
- admin.routes.ts: all audit endpoints wired under /admin/audit/*
- Migration 20260623000001: adds correlationId, entryHash, previousHash,
  anchoredAt, anchorTxId, redactedAt columns and performance indexes
- Tests: tamper-evidence chain, integrity verification, PII redaction,
  Merkle root, AuditStatus enum, role/status persistence
@Dami24-hub Dami24-hub requested a review from anonfedora as a code owner June 24, 2026 11:52
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