Privileged User Activity Auditing: The Missing Link for Enterprise Compliance and Security
Detailed actions of privileged users are critical in today's business environment of IT outsourcing, off-shoring and supplementing IT staff with contractors. Major regulations require documenting what users actually do with the privileges and rights granted to them and how their actions impact the IT environment. Traditional approaches, such as log files, cannot fully meet these requirements.
This white paper details:
- How to obtain a full accounting of what specific actions were taken on a specific system at a specific time, by a specific user
- How to ensure that every privileged session can be audited across their extended enterprise
- How to minimize risk by guarding against malicious activity