Audit & Compliance
Audit Trails with Hash Chain — Traceably Documented
Append-only audit log with SHA-256 hash chain, pseudonymisation of personal fields based on a defined rule set, role-based audit access. Built for companies with high traceability requirements.
Hash chain
Changes become traceable
Every audit entry contains the SHA-256 hash of the previous entry. This way the integrity of the audit chain can be verified. Append-only at the database level supports a traceable record of changes.
- SHA-256 hash of the previous entry in every row
- Append-only at the database level
- Verification endpoint for the audit role
Logging
What is logged
Who? When? What? Why? — four questions every audit entry answers.
Who?
User ID and IP address of the person triggering the action.
When?
Server timestamp in UTC — not client time, so time-zone tricks are ruled out.
What?
Before/after snapshot of the affected data row, fully reconstructable.
Why?
Justification as a mandatory field on every manual intervention.
GDPR Art. 17
Pseudonymisation instead of destruction
When employees request the erasure of their data, lumen.hr pseudonymises the personal fields while the legally retained bookings remain intact. Both obligations are met — GDPR and commercial-law archiving.
- Personal fields are pseudonymised
- Booking-relevant data is retained as legally required
- Traceably documented: timestamp, trigger, scope
Compliance
Compliance foundations
Privacy features
Pseudonymisation of personal fields based on a defined rule set.
Append-only
Audit log without update rights, only inserts possible.
SHA-256
Hash chain across all entries, tamper-evident.
Hosting in Germany
Application and database on Hetzner servers in Nuremberg and Falkenstein.
Audit architecture
Three technical building blocks
- SHA-256
- Hash algorithm of the audit chain
- 100 %
- Append-only, no modifications possible
- 16
- German states with holiday logic
Demo
Show us your compliance requirements
FDA, GMP, German authorities: we will show you in an audit-focused demo how lumen.hr provides the technical foundations for audits.