Windows File System Auditing: Blackbird auditor for Windows File System
Business Benefits
Your company's file system contains business critical resources, intellectual property and other sensitive information. A single, unintended change can put your entire organization at risk — impacting productivity with service interruption and introducing the costly risk of security breaches and non-compliance. Yet, native auditing tools place unnecessary overhead on the server and are cumbersome, requiring enormous resources to manually dig through audit entries; and the lack of centralized auditing and reporting fail to paint the entire picture of your file system activity.
Blackbird auditor brings a new level of centralized control and ease to AD auditing and compliance. Advanced change monitoring capabilities ensure your organizations is complying with external regulations or internal security initiatives, as well as prove to auditors that corporate policies for compliance have not deviated over time. Its built-in reporting library offers out-of-the box reporting templates, while the custom reporting wizard makes it easy to create custom reports and alerts on any AD change, including flexible filtering on every field. With Blackbird’s scheduled reporting, you can run reports against the central database and automatically email reports to administrators, security officers and business data owners. And Blackbird auditor translates all events into simple English that can be easily understood by non-administrators, including security and compliance officers.Blackbird auditor for Windows File System enables tighter security and control over File System resources across the enterprise. It tracks all key share, file and folder changes in real time, so administrators instantly know the "WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN" for any modification. Instant alerts allow administrators to take the fast action needed to minimize security risks and service interruption. And built-in reporting templates and reporting wizards simplify the creation of file system audit reports. As a result, administrators can easily create meaningful reports and information for auditors and security officers, without the typical burden of compiling data and manually producing reports.
With Blackbird auditor for Windows File System, you can:
- Track and audit all changes in share/file/folder user activity and permissions
- Easily create meaningful reports for auditors and managers to maintain regulatory compliance with SOX, PCI, HIPAA and more
- Proactively identify and resolve potential security risks
- Eliminate the overhead of native auditing
- Centralize the auditing of all file system changes from a single location
Key Features
Track the "WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN" for key share, file and folder changes in real time. Blackbird auditor for Windows File System proactively audits, reports, and alerts on Windows file system activity. You'll instantly know who made the change, when, and from what workstation (IP address or hostname). Blackbird auditor for Windows File System captures all changes and activity to a centralized auditing database, without the overhead of native auditing. For every event, Blackbird auditor shows the before and after values to facilitate troubleshooting. And there's a reporting library, out-of-the-box templates, custom report wizard and scheduled reporting — to turn data into meaningful and actionable reports that can be sent to security officers, auditors, and management.
With Blackbird auditor with Windows File System, you can:
- Track the WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN for any file system modification to a centralized auditing database
- Receive instant alerts on critical changes to minimize risk
- Eliminate the need for native auditing and the associated overhead on your servers
- View the before and after values for any change for easier troubleshooting
- Simplify the creation of reports with a built-in reporting library and custom reporting wizards
