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eTrust Audit Features And Benefits

eTrust Audit Features

Monitor Your System With eTrust's Leading Auditing Tool

eTrust Audit is a comprehensive auditing solution for today’s dynamic eBusiness. It efficiently collects enterprise-wide security and system audit data from a wide spectrum of sources including UNIX, Windows NT and 2000, Web servers, other eTrust products, mainframe systems, and multiple RDBMS. eTrust Audit filters collected information for consolidated viewing and reporting, stores this information in a central database for easy access and reporting, and automatically triggers appropriate actions upon detecting unusual or malicious activities on the system.

eTrust Audit Features

Features

bulletWide Support of Servers and Applications. 
eTrust Audit's policy-based approach to security and audit management and its rich set of out-of-the-box policies allows for a simple initial implementation of the host-based intrusion detection system in the enterprise, enhanced functionality in the area of long-term audit collection, storage, analysis and reporting, and collection of security-related events across multiple machines and domains from various types of servers and applications, including UNIX and Windows NT/2000, the eTrust product suite, Web servers, Unicenter TNG, mainframe security products, database services, and other applications. The collected information is placed into a centralized database, making it available for analysis, reporting, and correlation, and helping your organization form a complete picture of system activities.
bulletCentral Audit Log Data Repository
Potentially valuable log data are generated in a variety of places throughout the enterprise. However, this type of data is useful only when it is centralized, searchable, and stored in a relational database. eTrust Audit meets this requirement by collecting audit log data, from a variety of sources, into a central repository built around a relational database.
bulletFlexible Filtering, Actions, and Alerts.
All log events can be filtered at almost any level, including the end-user (client) level, and selected events can trigger a number of actions and alerts individually or simultaneously. Administrators can specify filter criteria so that only relevant information is presented. eTrust Audit also lets you automate the triggering process for detected events. This flexibility allows you to create and manage the enterprise security audit environment to meet your security requirements.
bulletCentralized Policy Management.
eTrust Audit provides strong centralized security policy management functionality. The ability to define your organization's security policy and perform remote distribution of host-based Intrusion Detection rules to the client from one central host is one of the top needs of security managers and administrators today. eTrust Audit's policy-based approach to security and audit management, as well as its rich set of out-of-the-box policies, provide security administrators with a simple initial implementation of the host-based intrusion detection system in the enterprise.

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Real-time Monitoring.
Critical events can be filtered, logged, and sent to Security Monitors . a capability that allows systems, network, and security personnel to be notified of critical events in near real-time. In the event of hacker attacks, maintaining the ability to immediately react to an attack becomes crucial. eTrust Audit is designed to cope with hacker attacks and provide instantaneous damage and attack control.

bulletBundled Report Creation and Web Based Reporting.
eTrust Audit comes bundled with numerous reporting and graph functions. Additional reporting capabilities can be easily added using SQL, Crystal Reports, or any other SQL-based report or development tool. Additionally, eTrust Audit can generate reports in HTML language so that any Web browser can view the report data without extra software, providing accessibility to the Report Viewer.
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Cross-Platform and Cross-Application Event Management.
eTrust Audit collects Audit Log data from various sources, which allows for central security and event monitoring in mixed-enterprise environments. The ability to correlate events among different systems makes eTrust Audit a critical management tool for today's eBusiness world. Its ability to identify activity patterns across different systems and applications gives administrators the upper hand when dealing with unauthorized accesses or hackers. malicious assaults.

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GUI Tools for Collections and Viewing.
eTrust Audit's Viewer is an easy-to-use graphical tool that lets you view and filter audit data in a consistent, searchable format with powerful filters and reporting capabilities. eTrust Audit's intuitive approach greatly simplifies collections and use of audit data.

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