Auditing and Monitoring Data Use
Data audits help organizations manage change, reduce risk, and ensure compliance by answering questions such as:
- What users are currently entitled to access which data?
- Who were the last people to access a critical folder, and how?
- Who deleted a key file?
- How did a user get access permission to a file?
- Which administrator changed settings to the file server, and when?
Regardless of how often audits are conducted, finding answers to data access questions such as these is a time consuming and challenging task for security and IT operations managers who must pore through forensic information.
On UNIX file servers, there's virtually no way to generate data access audit data. On Windows file servers, the information provided by tools such as the Windows Event Viewer is inadequate and introduces the following problems. First, generating additional audit data impacts server overhead and can therefore cause a business slow down. Second, a great deal of additional audit data is generated, bringing about the need for additional products to analyze all the data. Finally, even with the additional data, IT staff must still search, sort and analyze the data to make sense of it and get answers to the audit questions.
Without impacting space or performance on your file servers (and without requiring Windows auditing on Windows file servers), Varonis answers your questions with just a few mouse clicks. We'll show you every file-touch, for each user and group on your network, by action (open, rename, delete, etc.), filename, username or folder name.
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