Novell® Sentinel™

Active Monitoring Around the Clock

When it comes to security, manual monitoring just doesn't cut it. Manually gathering data and attesting that your organization follows established policies is time-consuming and labor-intensive. It often highlights a knowledge gap between what security policies dictate should occur and what actually does occur. These manual efforts can also create real-time security gaps, inaccurate reporting and inability to prove compliance—which can result in lost business, fines and penalties, brand damage and lost shareholder value.

Novell Sentinel™ is the market-leading security information management and compliance monitoring solution. Delivering unmatched performance and scalability, Sentinel supports the largest, most complex IT environments in a cost-effective manner. By automatically monitoring your IT controls in real time, Sentinel enables you to:

• Jumpstart your compliance monitoring and reporting programs with out-of-the-box capabilities
• Use a single solution to address IT controls across multiple regulations
• Close the knowledge gap between what should happen and what is actually happening in your networked environment
• Demonstrate to auditors and regulators that your organization documents, monitors and reports on security controls
• Gain the visibility and control required to continually assess the success of your organization's compliance and security programs

Sentinel automates the process of monitoring for policy violations, identifying and responding to violations, and delivering compliance metrics to demonstrate the effectiveness of critical IT controls. The Sentinel Control Center provides a central console for real-time monitoring, event correlation, incident management and reporting.

Sentinel enables you to collect, correlate, monitor and display data from thousands of events per second in real time with the following modules:

• Sentinel Control Center
• Sentinel Reports
• Sentinel Collector Manager
• Sentinel Advisor (optional module)
• Sentinel Mainframe Connector (optional module)
• Sentinel PCI Solution Pack (optional module)
• Identity Tracking Solution Pack (optional module)

The Sentinel Control Center provides a central console for real-time monitoring, event correlation, incident management and reporting.

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For more information see: Sentinel 6: Active Event Monitoring for Improved Security and Compliance Management Whitepaper