PA File Sight 3.7
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Simple file access auditing |
| PA File Sight will help you determine who is reading from and writing to important files. It can tell you when a new file or folder is created or renamed. And, when a file or folder gets deleted, PA File Sight can tell you who did it. Plus, you can often find out what program was used to perform the action. |
Besides file access notification and logging actions, the Pro Edition helps you further by providing reports to help see what happened in the past, whether you were notified about it or not. AND it lets you alert on user usage patterns (reading X files in Y time for example).
File Auditing
PA File Sight's active file and folder auditing can be an important part of your Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance, and more. Plus, with the built in security settings, you'll know nobody is tampering with your PA File Sight installation.
Some of the easy to use features include:
- Monitor all files or a subset of files on a local disk for changes, access (reads), deletes, etc.
- Receive notifications via email, SMS, SNPP pager, etc
- Record file access, user and program to log files
- Monitor log file integrity -- alert on changes, but keep quiet on normal log appends
- (Pro only) Receive advanced file auditing alerts based on user behavior, such as reading all files in a folder (which might be a copy operation)
- (Pro only) Record file and folder access to a database, and generate reports on specified files, users, access type or time ranges
- See the detailed feature description in the documentation
Screenshots
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Simple Configuration |
Monitor User Activities |
File Audit Report |
File Integrity Monitoring
Many compliance mandates require auditing file access and ensuring file integrity. Among those are: PCI DSS 10.5.5, 11.5, 12.9.5, SOX DS5.5, GLBA 16 CFR Part 314.4(b) and (3), HIPAA 164.312(e)(1), FISMA AC-19, CP-9, SI-1, SI-7, ISO 27001/27002 12.3, 12.5.1, 12.5.3, 15.3
PA File Sight can monitor log files, even files that were opened before PA File Sight started. In addition, it can alert on writes (changes) to files, but ignore the expected appends to log files.
Simple Solution
File monitoring doesn't need to be complicated. PA File Sight can be installed and configured in literally a minute or two. Specify a local path and some file types to watch and it will get to work immediately.
Consider these advanced features:
- PA File Sight runs as a service, so it is monitoring your system as soon as the computer is started--there is no need to login or start a program manually.
- It has advanced resource usage throttling to make sure it doesn't affect the server it is running on or the network.
- (Pro Only) HTTP based reports for viewing within the PA File Sight Console, or from a web browser.
- Schedule reports to be automatically generated, and optionally have the URL emailed to you.
- Ad hoc reports to quickly get answers based on data already collected.
- Powerful and flexible actions that run in response to your alert criteria.
PA File Sight will tell you more about server file access than you've ever been able to find out before.
Download the free trial and see for yourself!