Free TrialThe Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) of 2002 and the Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA) of 2014 enforce stringent standards to ensure the security, confidentiality, and integrity of United States federal property and information. These acts mandate that all federal agencies, along with their contractors, service providers, and any organizations that operate government IT systems, follow certain policies, procedures, and processes to mitigate ever-growing data threats.
DataSecurity Plus' audit tool helps you streamline your organization's network security, and detect and respond to potential threats, through continuous monitoring and reporting of all activities on your file server. You can use DataSecurity Plus' automated, actionable audit reports to achieve and maintain compliance with federal standards.
Below is a list of reports you can use to prove that your organization is compliant.
| FISMA standards | DataSecurity Plus report or alert |
| Track all modifications to files in order to assess risks to data integrity and resolve violations, if any. | All file/folder changes report |
| Deleted/overwritten files report | |
| Security permission changes report | |
| Most modified file report | |
| File modified after N days report | |
| Create events report | |
| Renamed/moved events report | |
| Periodically review all attempts to access critical data, including both successful and failed attempts. | All failed attempts report |
| Read events report | |
| Most accessed file report | |
| Most accesses by processes/user report | |
| Files accessed after N days report | |
| Review access rights and file permissions periodically to ensure that no excessive permissions are assigned. | NTFS permissions report |
| Share permissions report | |
| Utilize customizable alerts to quickly detect any user actions that violate your data protection policies. | File/folder moved or renamed alert |
| File/folder security changes alert | |
| File/folder removed alert | |
| Media files alert | |
| Periodically examine file storage to verify that data stored is relevant, required, and does not exceed the requirements defined in your data retention policy. | Old files report |
| Stale files report | |
| Unmodified files report | |
| Large files report | |
| Hidden files report | |
| Non-business files report | |
| Use preconfigured alerts to detect and respond quickly to potential data breaches. | Ransomware file alert |
| Threshold-based alert |
* You can also generate customized reports based on file path, users, business hours, etc.
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Audit and analyze file and folder access |
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Analyze files and disk space |
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| The Access Audit report provides detailed information on the quintessential Four W's—who accessed what, when, and from where. This will help you keep track of all accesses and changes. The Access Analysis report provides a summary view of accesses and changes, which can help you detect access trends. | The File Analysis report helps isolate files that are old, unused, unmodified, large, hidden, or non-business; making data cleanup easier. The Disk Analysis report provides visual insight into disk space usage and trends, facilitating optimization of disk space; it also reveals properties of files and folders. | |||
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Actively respond to security breaches |
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Audit access rights |
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| Detect security breaches as and when they occur with alerts that get emailed instantly. Define threshold limits for mass access events such as malware attacks. | Examine share and security permissions of files and folders and prevent access exploitation. | |||
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Minimize incident response times |
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| Become proactive with real-time file and folder access and change auditing. Continuously monitor and get notified about critical activities. | ||||
Disclaimer: Fully complying with the FISMA requires a variety of solutions, processes, people, and technologies. This page is provided for informational purpose only and should not be considered as legal advice for FISMA compliance. ManageEngine makes no warranties, express, implied, or statutory, as to the information in this material.
