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Secure data logging & network event monitoring with Novell Audit 2

Features and Benefits

In today’s business environment, companies are held to almost impossibly high standards of accountability. Novell Audit enables you to know—and prove—that your organization scrupulously follows both internal security policies and government regulations. It collects data on network-wide security, system and application events; stores this data in a single location; and notifies you if policies and regulations are breached. This kind of secure data logging and network event monitoring is a key requirement of many compliance regulations.

Features

A necessary component of any secure identity management solution, Novell Audit is a comprehensive auditing product that offers:

  • Secure data logging that meets legal criteria for admissible evidence
  • Real-time network event monitoring
  • Real-time notifications by e-mail, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), Storage, SYSLOG, Java and Critical Value Reset (CVR)
  • Event grouping and report correlation
  • Event structure normalization
  • Robust reporting that includes several pre-written Crystal Reports from Crystal Decisions—without requiring a license
  • Extensible architecture that enables virtually any system or application to report events to Novell Audit
  • Native storage driver for MS SQL server
  • Setup Wizard
  • Flexible log parser for integrating Syslog and other text-based log files
  • Windows Event Instrumentation for collecting events from Windows* servers
  • iManager-based monitoring tools

Benefits

With the convenient centralized repository of information in Novell Audit, you can:

  • Make informed decisions using a securely transmitted, centralized data log
  • Strengthen security with real-time notification, customizable filters and query tools
  • Ensure organization-wide compliance to both external regulations and internal policies
  • Respond immediately to suspicious activity
  • Prove compliance using robust reporting capabilities and audit control testing
  • Simplify deployment and management with support for multiple platforms and applications
  • Collect Windows system events into a centralized event store
  • Integrate existing applications without the need for custom programming

Novell Audit helps you reduce your organization's potential liability and risk by providing the data and tools you need to prevent breach of government regulations or organization policies or defend your company in a court of law.

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