How to Use audit trail in a Sentence

audit trail

noun
  • What does the audit trail look like?
    — Shreyas Nair, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • The result is an audit trail that doesn’t just say an agent did this.
    — Huzefa Olia, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2026
  • There's also an audit trail, to see, after the fact, who used them.
    — John Wisely, Freep.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • With bitcoin, there’s no oversight and no audit trail — and that’s supposed to be a plus?
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2021
  • This transparency reduces the risk of fraud and provides a clear audit trail.
    — Ascend Agency, New York Daily News, 12 June 2024
  • That gives you a defensible audit trail.
    — Abhijeet Mukkawar, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
  • The new software produces an audit trail that documents any changes made to the accounts.
    — David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 4 Apr. 2018
  • The blockchain can provide this immutable audit trail confirming the provenance of the source.
    — Jemma Green, Forbes, 19 May 2021
  • Machine counts are foolproof and come with multiple fail-safes, double-checks and audit trails.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2024
  • The development of the audit trail has often been caught in red tape and industry fights over who will pay for it.
    — Dave Michaels, WSJ, 15 Sep. 2017
  • Immutable audit trails for every action.
    — Ajay Pundhir, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The audit trail is years behind schedule and recently launched its first phase while still missing some key functions.
    — Dave Michaels, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2018
  • The practice bypassed all AI disclaimers and audit trails.
    — Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2025
  • In these cases, audit trails and real-time monitoring should be viewed as must-haves, not extras.
    — Mark Halberstein, Forbes.com, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Flock also says every search is permanently logged in an immutable audit trail.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 16 May 2026
  • Every output should carry a traceable audit trail of the data and business rules that produced it.
    — Raju Malhotra, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • Is there an audit trail to see where data originated, how it was aggregated and how it is being used?
    — Aaron Burciaga, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
  • This view is baked into Palantir’s technology itself in the form of an audit trail.
    — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 19 Dec. 2025
  • The agent runs inside the customer's cloud, where the company keeps its data, its credentials and its audit trail.
    — Janakiram Msv, Forbes.com, 13 June 2026
  • Combine that with audit trails to ensure teams handle data with transparency and control.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • When something goes wrong, forensic teams struggle to trace which action was taken by which agent because there is no traceable audit trail.
    — Eric Olden, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Trust comes from transparency, including clear audit trails that show what data informed an action and why it was taken.
    — Lori Schafer, Forbes.com, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Versioning, change logs and audit trails are vital in demonstrating compliance over time.
    — Ravi Gedela, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Any process that involves multiple agents, human approvals, long-running state and an audit trail is a good candidate.
    — Jakob Freund, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • The result is higher accuracy, fewer denials and a clean audit trail.
    — Ajai Sehgal, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • They’re also left without a single audit trail of how processes were executed, who was involved and what tools were used.
    — Tina Huang, Forbes, 7 June 2022
  • Most leading teams keep an audit trail so regressions don’t slip through the cracks and improvements are visible to all stakeholders.
    — Sebastian Crossa, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Organizations can record photo or video walkthroughs within the tool to create a full, secure audit trail.
    — Dan Zitting, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Build privacy into the product from day one through strong security, short retention and audit trails.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 12 Feb. 2026
  • This means agents operate within guardrails, policies become programmable and audit trails are native.
    — Akash M Dubey, Forbes.com, 12 Mar. 2026

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