Enterprise Security is Attainable through Log Intelligence
The LogClarity® Enterprise Solution provides a unique security and compliance platform that simplifies both auditing and monitoring of domain activity and database activity across the enterprise. This powerful solution also helps protect customer private data contained inside databases as well as intellectual property located on file servers. LogClarity® is the only single-source solution that has successfully fused database activity monitoring with enterprise log management and security.
- The Log Fidelity Strategy
- Collect-All Solutions Don't Work
- The Leading Cause of Data Pollution
- Intelligent Enterprise Log Management
- Incident Management
- Enterprise Reporting
- Data Mining & Forensics
- Why SIM Solutions are NOT the Silver Bullet
- Scalability is the Cornerstone of LogClarity’s Design
The Log Fidelity Strategy
The Intelligent Log Management Strategy
Over the last decade, Windows has become a dominating force in the desktop and enterprise server market. Companies are utilizing Windows servers within their core business more and more. At the same time, new security legislation has been passed which has continued to get more stringent and challenging for organizations worldwide. The new compliance challenges coupled with the widely increased Windows system adoption has created the need for a solid Windows log management solution.
Collect-All Solutions Don't Work
The hidden flaws in other logging solutions
All of the log management solutions developed over the last five years, have the same major flaw. They all convert event logs into a normalized format without filtering out the redundant and convoluted data. This is a recipe for disaster which can lead to serious side effects from data pollution. The old world concept of normalization is acceptable for firewall logs and other devices. In fact, UNIX server event logs can also still be managed in this format. None of these other log management solutions understand Window events at all. The collect all method is not acceptable for Windows event logs at all.
The Leading Cause of Data Pollution
The True Cause of Deficient Forensics & Innacurate Reporting
Event logs can either “reveal or conceal” security breaches or operational issues. Utilizing solutions that provide true accurate forensics and reporting based on “real data” is the key. Many events are redundant, misleading, duplicated or retired by Microsoft. These painful event types account for over 76% of all Windows events. The native Windows events are virtually useless in their native form. Many are completely unusable; others need to be correlated together to understand the true scope of the event.
Intelligent Enterprise Log Management
Enterprise Log Management & Intelligent Log Analysis
The log management industry is riddled with tool vendors that have distinct solutions that focus on solving compliance and security concerns for only a subset of the overall business problem. One vendor helps customers meet compliance by performing central log collection and monitoring for a variety of log sources but, they lack database activity monitoring.
Incident Management
Proactive Incident Management and Response Delivered
Incidents come with the territory for security teams worldwide. However, reducing damage and mitigating risk is the goal of every security professional. LogClarity® provides an Incident Management Console that enables network security teams to directly respond to security threats and policy infractions. LogClarity’s alerting capabilities are much more flexible and extensive than simple event-Id alerts or basic regular-expression alerting that other solutions offer.
Enterprise Reporting
Reporting is Only as Valuable as the Underlying Data
The LogClarity® Enterprise Solution offers complete log management and security coverage over the entire enterprise; domain controllers, member servers, databases, firewalls, devices and much more. LogClarity® has five powerful modules to help increase security, improve network and server operations and meet compliance requirements. LogClarity® is able to accomplish all of these tasks by removing the painful manual efforts related to log management as well as provide unique forensic methods and alert capabilities that no other tool has available today.
Data Mining & Forensics
Unprecedented Forensic and Data Mining
LogClarity® provides unmatched log search capabilities for Windows logs and syslog formatted logs. LogClarity® caters to the features of each log type and overcomes the weaknesses. LogClarity® can accommodate the needs for each log type without any of the limitations (i.e. Windows security logs versus syslog style logs). LogClarity® provides the best of both worlds by providing agile and effective search methodologies for all log types.
Why SIM Solutions are NOT the Silver Bullet
The Limitations of SIM Technology
Every organization faces an uphill battle when trying to decipher real activity made by users, taking place on systems, using a wide variety of applications within the enterprise. Event logs get generated on UNIX hosts, firewalls, routers, databases and servers. This information is very important to monitor for security, compliance, and to increase uptime of systems.
Scalability is the Cornerstone of LogClarity’s Design
Scalability is the Result of Revolutionary Design Planning
Many other solutions collect all the event data without any analysis or filtering capabilities built-in. They collect the redundant useless logs along with the real log data. This can result in bloated log servers which many be overwhelmed and actually lose valuable data. This method causes log servers to also be loaded with misinformation. The collect-all model can overwhelm network bandwidth and increase server CPU usage significantly.