Why the LogClarity® Suite is the logical choice for enterprise log management and data security?
LogClarity® intelligently collects, monitors, alerts, archives, and reports event logs from all sources including databases.
Intelligent Log Management Example:
Other log management solutions don’t perform any analysis of event logs at all. They simply collect them all to a central log server. This can be very difficult to use for a number of reasons. The duplicate data can cause inaccurate reports and too many event log results during data mining activity searches. It can also cause serious data pollution and poor log retention.
LogClarity® performs intelligent analysis of event logs as they are generated. LogClarity® automatically filters out redundant, duplicate, and garbage events. All of these issues normally can cause poor log retention, convolute reports and make forensics difficult. LogClarity® also intelligently correlates related logs to provide clear actions so end users don’t have to attempt to correlate logs manually.
Security Example:
All other Log Management solutions collect only what the Windows event logs provide. Case in point: group policy change events provided by Windows will only state that there was a change to a group policy. The event logs don’t determine which group policy; what attribute was changed; or, who made the change.
LogClarity® provides additional GPO tracking technology by identifying changes to specific attributes for all group policy objects across the enterprise. LogClarity® can tell users; which group policy was changed; who made the change; when it was changed; and what the attributes were before the change.
Intellectual Property Example:
Other Log Management solutions leave the event log correlation of object access events up to the end user. If someone moves or copies some files containing intellectual property, other logging solutions cannot tell if the files were moved or copied. This is a huge limitation because they do not perform any analysis of the object access event logs or correlate the actions.
LogClarity® provides event log correlation to combine multiple event logs into one action when it occurs. This provides clear identification of access to intellectual property much more clearly than any other solution.
Database Example:
Native auditing is too corrosive to the performance of databases and business applications. Network sniffing tools are limited because they cannot capture SQL queries that are made locally. All queries made directly to the database by privileged users or unauthorized users are not collected or monitored. This is a serious blind spot for the security of critical assets. Encryption is a typical security measure that organizations use to protect data. Network traffic sniffing tools have problems monitoring SQL query activities made towards encrypted tables.
LogClarity® performs analysis of SQL queries at the source (the database table), and not at the network layer (traffic sniffing). LogClarity® can capture all queries to critical tables regardless if the table is encrypted or if users have direct access to the database itself. The LogClarity® DAT technology provides distinct benefits over native database auditing and generic log management tools.
One Enterprise Solution versus Point Solutions
Other database monitoring solutions don’t provide enterprise log management of enterprise activity. This means they are unable to track user activity outside the database. It also means they cannot protect data outside the scope of the database either.
Other log management solutions do not perform any database activity monitoring. Those log tool vendors typically recommend enabling the native database auditing and they will collect those logs, or they do not perform any log collection for databases, whatsoever. In either case, lack of real database activity monitoring is a significant limitation for organizations that need to meet compliance by monitoring and protecting the enterprise itself, as well as, data within their databases.
The Only Single Source Solution to Enterprise log management and data security; The LogClarity® Suite
Log Fidelity provides the entire enterprise log management and database security solution in one simple-to-deploy suite. Security, compliance, and peace of mind are all benefits of the LogClarity® Suite. Let the LogClarity® Suite automate the mundane log management tasks and help your organization overcome the data pollution and log retention challenges.