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As a crucial component of network security, database auditing is essential for safeguarding sensitive corporate data, strengthening security measures, and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.

ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer aids in database auditing by seamlessly collecting and monitoring logs from various database servers. The solution delivers comprehensive reporting and analysis of database activity across platforms such as Microsft SQL, Oracle, MySQL, and IBM DB2 by correlating and investigating log data. It also provides user activity tracking, change management, server activity tracking, and detection of database security attacks like SQL injection.

Here's how EventLog Analyzer helps you proactively audit database servers

Simplified approach to effective database management

EventLog Analyzer is a comprehensive database log management solution that streamlines the collection of database logs from across your network. It simplifies log analysis by providing preconfigured reports for various database activities, including account management, user changes, server security, and more. Not only does it compile these reports, but it also keeps you informed in real-time about security events through instant alerts. EventLog Analyzer ensures the secure archiving of logs, adding an extra layer of protection.

Simplified approach to effective database management

Strengthening security through user monitoring

EventLog Analyzer aids in monitoring database server logs. It provides real-time analysis of server activity, user logins, and changes to accounts and permissions. It establishes a robust security posture by tracking user actions within the system, including logon and logoff activity, user account validation, configuration changes, and more. The solution strengthens database security by promptly responding to critical events, providing a proactive defense against potential threats and vulnerabilities.

Effortless monitoring and auditing for regulatory compliance

EventLog Analyzer provides real-time monitoring to alert on prominent database attacks like SQL injection, maintains an audit trail for compliance and investigations, identifies complex attack patterns through correlation of events, and provides prebuilt reports for regulatory compliances, including HIPAA, PCI DSS, FISMA, and SOX.

Evaluate database server operations

EventLog Analyzer offers in-depth analysis capabilities by providing reports specifically designed for database server log analysis. These reports provide insights into users who logged in the most or users who failed logons the most, enabling a more comprehensive understanding of database server activity. By utilizing these reports, you can derive valuable insights from your logs, identify patterns, and trends in server activities, and make data-driven decisions to enhance database security and performance. This deeper analysis helps to address issues proactively and optimize database operations for improved efficiency and security.

Real-time alerts for instant database security

Database activity monitoring is essential for maintaining data security. It enables comprehensive tracking and issues instant alerts about security events in the database, including crucial database transactions like change in DDL and DML statements. With this capability, you can identify and monitor who accesses the database and track the specific actions they perform, ensuring accountability and data integrity. By promptly detecting any suspicious or unauthorized activities, this monitoring contributes to enhanced security and compliance with regulatory standards.

Other solutions provided by EventLog Analyzer

Proactive database auditing  

Proactively monitor database changes and activities such as database creation, modification and server activity, as well as server activities such as startups, shutdowns, and creation of server level objects.

Oracle database auditing  

Efficiently audit Oracle database operations with detailed predefined reports and track structural changes, queries, and user modifications.

Log analysis  

Enhance log analysis through centralized log collection, real-time monitoring, log correlation and facilitate custom alerting, compliance reporting, and user activity tracking for effective log analysis that are critical in security threat detection and troubleshooting.

Comprehensive user activity monitoring  

Analyze user actions, track sessions, and set real-time alerts for unusual behavior. Access reports for privileged user oversight, data loss prevention, compliance reporting, and enable historical analysis for security incident investigations.

5 reasons to choose EventLog Analyzer as your database monitoring tool

1. Comprehensive user activity monitoring  

Analyze user actions, track sessions, and set real-time alerts for unusual behavior. Access reports for privileged user oversight, data loss prevention, compliance reporting, and enable historical analysis for security incident investigations.

2. Enhanced forensic analysis  

EventLog Analyzer enables detailed incident investigations through advanced historical analysis, providing a precise timeline for forensic examination of security incidents.

3. Elevate SQL server security  

Identify intricate attack patterns within SQL servers, detecting potential threats like privilege abuse, credential theft, and SQL injection attempts.

4. In-depth privileged user monitoring  

EventLog Analyzer delivers detailed insights into privileged user activity, generating graphical reports for both device-specific and user-centric events.

5. Advanced reporting and compliance  

The tool includes advanced reporting capabilities with predefined templates for various regulatory standards such as HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, FISMA, SOX, SOC 2 and others, streamlining compliance efforts and facilitating audit preparation.

Frequently asked questions

Database auditing is a process of monitoring and tracking activities, and granting access to a database to ensure data security, compliance with regulations, and the integrity of the information stored within the database. This practice involves recording and analyzing events and actions related to the database management system (DBMS) and the data it contains

To audit data in a database, set clear objectives, enable auditing (either through the database's native features or third-party tools), configure what to audit, and regularly review logs for unauthorized activities. Take necessary actions, secure audit data, generate compliance reports, and adapt the auditing configuration as the database evolves.

The purpose of a database audit is to safeguard data security, uphold regulatory compliance, and verify data integrity. It involves systematically tracking and recording actions related to a database and its management system. This process helps detect security breaches, unauthorized access, and data tampering, ensuring the protection and authenticity of data. Furthermore, it aids in demonstrating adherence to legal and industry standards, supports forensic investigations, and offers insights for optimizing database performance.

Within a SQL database management system, SQL database auditing involves monitoring and recording activities to:

  • Enhance security: Helps prevent unauthorized access and data breaches by tracking SQL statements and commands.
  • Maintain compliance: Ensures adherence to regulatory standards and industry-specific requirements.
  • Establish accountability: Assigns responsibility for database actions to deter malicious activities and enforce data governance.
  • Facilitate forensics: Provides a detailed history of SQL queries for investigations into security incidents.

To implement SQL database auditing, enable auditing, capture relevant data, store it in audit logs, regularly review logs, and take necessary actions. This can be accomplished using built-in DBMS features or third-party tools, depending on the complexity and requirements of the database environment.

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Customer Speaks

  • Credit Union of Denver has been using EventLog Analyzer for more than four years for our internal user activity monitoring. EventLog Analyzer provides great value as a network forensic tool and for regulatory due diligence. This product can rapidly be scaled to meet our dynamic business needs.
    Benjamin Shumaker
    Vice President of IT / ISO
    Credit Union of Denver
  • The best thing, I like about the application, is the well structured GUI and the automated reports. This is a great help for network engineers to monitor all the devices in a single dashboard. The canned reports are a clever piece of work.
    Joseph Graziano, MCSE CCA VCP
    Senior Network Engineer
    Citadel
  • EventLog Analyzer has been a good event log reporting and alerting solution for our information technology needs. It minimizes the amount of time we spent on filtering through event logs and provides almost near real-time notification of administratively defined alerts.
    Joseph E. Veretto
    Operations Review Specialist
    Office of Information System
    Florida Department of Transportation
  • Windows Event logs and device Syslogs are a real time synopsis of what is happening on a computer or network. EventLog Analyzer is an economical, functional and easy-to-utilize tool that allows me to know what is going on in the network by pushing alerts and reports, both in real time and scheduled. It is a premium software Intrusion Detection System application.
    Jim Lloyd
    Information Systems Manager
    First Mountain Bank

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