Novell® Sentinel™

Real-time Reporting

Active monitoring is great, but active reporting is even better. It's not enough for the system to know what is happening if it can't show you in time for you to act. Sentinel™ collects, correlates, monitors and displays data from thousands of events per second in real time. You have up-to-the-minute reports on your organization's security and compliance health right at your fingertips.

Sentinel Reports is a key module of Sentinel and enables you to:

• Demonstrate that you continuously monitor user activity on critical IT assets and that security and compliance incidents are identified
• Prove that your organization tracks and resolves incidents and policy violations for more robust compliance attestation
• Gain the insight you need to effectively monitor, measure and improve your security posture
• Discover trends and anomalies you can't detect manually
• Tie events back to users rather than IP addresses

Sentinel Reports enables you to track and report all security-related activity on assets impacted by SOX, HIPAA, FISMA, PCI and other regulations, including user activity, incidents and policy violations.

Sentinel Reports provides valuable insight to executive management and internal and external auditors on policy adherence, violations and remedial actions, as well as how user activity affects critical assets. You can eliminate the time-consuming exercise of manually wading through system logs and other relevant data to prepare reports—reducing both operational risk and the time and money you would typically spend on audit preparation and review.

The out-of-the-box reporting capabilities in Sentinel help your organization obtain critical security and compliance data quickly and efficiently—an essential benefit when inflexible audit dates, regulatory deadlines and other pressures drive project timelines. Sentinel Reports includes a comprehensive set of reports and dashboards, which you can easily configure. You can also create your own reports using an industry-standard report builder to meet your organization's specific requirements. All departments will benefit from up-to-date information on the organization's compliance and security posture. Another operational strength of the reporting solution is its powerful flexibility in publishing the reports in many various formats, including prescheduled publishing to internal corporate intranet portals.