Audit logging for a secure, scalable and flexible internet fax architecture

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium embodying a set of instructions, which when executed by one or more processors of an Internet fax system, causes the one or more processors to perform a method comprising:

• receiving from a component of the Internet fax system information regarding an event associated with the component that is to be logged separate and distinct from a record of inbound or outbound fax calls available for presentation to subscribers of the Internet fax system;
• retrieving one or more specific parameters to be logged from one or more sources of information within the Internet fax system based on the event;
• recording the event to an audit log maintained by a centralized audit logging module associated with the Internet fax system in a standardized format by creating an audit log entry, incorporating the information and the one or more specific parameters within the audit log entry and storing the audit log entry within the audit log;
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• facilitating auditing of security or compliance of the Internet fax system by a subscriber of the Internet fax system by responsive to receiving a request to retrieve information from the audit log initiated by the subscriber, returning information associated with those audit log entries within the audit log matching one or more optional criteria specified in the request.