Below are the Log Fidelity technical papers that can assist organizations with increasing security and meeting compliance. The LogClarity® solutions are designed to automate enterprise log management, increase security, and solve complex compliance dilemmas.
PCI Compliance
The latest release of the PCI data security standard has created some new challenges for organizations. However the new revisions have drastically improved security and accountability in many ways. These changes come on the heels of new compelling research into data security threats that face global organizations and their customers. Mitigating risks of perpetrators gaining access to cardholder data while also monitoring all access to cardholder data is the underlying message of the PCI DSS 1.2 standard.
The LogClarity® Enterprise Solution provides a solid foundation for log management, combined with database activity monitoring. This allows organizations to gain full accountability and security through logging intelligent combined with automation. This whitepaper focuses on the challenges and solutions that are needed to help organizations meet PCI DSS 1.2 and increase overall visibility of all user activity.
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FISMA Compliance
The FISMA legislation was initially rolled out in 2002 and has been largely publicized as loosely enforced. The National Institute of Standards and Technology is responsible for developing standards and guidelines, including minimum requirements, for providing adequate information security for all agency operations and assets, for non-national security systems. NIST released Special Publication 800-53A in July of 2008 which finally puts some form of real usable and enforceable recommendations for security controls and processes for Federal agencies.
This document describes how the LogClarity® solution helps Federal agencies achieve compliance with the FISMA legislation. LogClarity® introduces real-time log analysis which automatically translates native log data into usable business intelligence. The LogClarity® Enterprise Solution also streamlines log management tasks, provides unmatched accountability of user activity. LogClarity® also performs zero-impact database activity monitoring with extensive enterprise reporting and incident management capabilities.
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NISPOM Compliance
The NISPOM standard was initially released in 2004. It has since been revised as of February of 2006. This standard is designed to help Government contractors meet and maintain security standards for the purposes of securing systems and data from being abused or misused. This document describes how LogClarity® streamlined and automated many challenging auditing and monitoring tasks that Government contractors must solve specifically for Chapter 8 of the NISPOM Standard.
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HIPAA Compliance
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act was signed into legislation to ensure the privacy of health record information. Since HIPAA’s inception the goal has been to ensure that organizations implement exceptional processes and procedure to protect their customer’s private health records information. The challenges of HIPPA can be very taxing to small and large healthcare institutions.
Health record information is typically stored inside databases. Native logging methods do not provide any accountability of user activity towards heath record information stored inside databases. This document describes how the LogClarity® Enterprise Solution is designed to overcome these challenges with powerful database activity monitoring and incident management capabilities. LogClarity® also automates the mundane tasks related to log aggregating and log protection. Logging, monitoring and true accountability of user activity is finally achievable.
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SOX Compliance
The Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 was enacted in response to the high-profile financial scandals of Enron and WorldCom. The SOX legislation was defined to help protect shareholders and the general public from accounting errors and fraudulent practices of corporate entities. The act is administered by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which sets deadlines for compliance and publishes rules on requirements.
The legislation affects both the financial and the IT departments of every corporate business. The SOX mandate requires that all business records, including electronic records and electronic messages, must be saved for "not less than five years." The consequences for non-compliance are fines, imprisonment, or both. IT departments are increasingly faced with the challenge of creating and maintaining a corporate records archive in a cost-effective fashion that satisfies the requirements put forth by the legislation. The SOX legislation was created to ensure that financial records are not doctored or misrepresented. To comply with the requirements of SOX, database activity monitoring must be used to ensure proof of the accuracy of company financial data.
The LogClarity® Enterprise Solution provides full accountability of all user activity by monitoring all data access across the enterprise including commercial databases. This document describes how the LogClarity® solution helps automate the mundane and rigorous tasks related to log data management while cutting expensive storage costs.