File Integrity and Removable Media Monitoring: Ensuring Security at the System Level
As the battle rages on between security and compliance professionals on one side, and malware, malicious software, and insider threats on the other, no arsenal is complete without the ability to control the integrity and transfer of critical system and data files. Security and compliance professionals need file integrity monitoring to ensure that fast-acting viruses and other unwanted code don't infect key operating system and application files, and ensure that users do not inappropriately copy sensitive data to removable media such as USB drives (intentionally or otherwise) in order to meet major regulations, best practices and standards such as
PCI DSS, NERC CIP,
SOX,
HIPAA, and others.
Although there is no question that file integrity and removable media monitoring are critical capabilities to ensure both security and compliance, together they only provide two pieces of the overall puzzle of information security. To truly understand why these changes and activities occurred, data from file integrity monitoring and removable media detection must be correlated with other critical security information, such as known system vulnerabilities, other configuration and asset data, performance metrics, and network flow data. Together, this information provides all the pieces necessary to complete the "big picture" of file integrity and transfer activity.
SecureVue: Filling In the Pieces of the Puzzle
SecureVue from eIQnetworks is a security and compliance management platform that provides comprehensive file integrity monitoring and removable media detection, and correlates this with a broad range of other security data. Organizations of all sizes can harness SecureVue's unified threat and compliance (UTC) assessment platform to ensure both enterprise information security, and compliance with major regulations, best practices, and standards such as PCI DSS,
HIPAA, SOX,
NERC CIP, and others. SecureVue goes beyond traditional file integrity monitoring and removable media detection point solutions by providing users with key capabilities:
Integrated File, Directory, and Windows Registry Monitoring. Unlike other solutions, SecureVue captures changes to not only individual files, but entire directories as well as Windows registry values.
Context of File Changes and Removable Media Data Transfers. Collect real-time information regarding file integrity and the transfer of data to removable media devices on servers and workstations, and correlate with other relevant security information including other configuration and asset data, performance metrics, and network flow data.
Complete, Detailed Historical Reporting. SecureVue provides complete historical reporting of file changes and removable media activity - over days, weeks, and months - using dashboards that allow users to quickly and easily identify long-term patterns.
Meet Compliance Requirements. A growing number of regulations, best practices, and standards for information security require organizations to implement file integrity monitoring and removable media detection. For enterprises that need to comply with
PCI DSS, HIPAA,
SOX,
GLBA, NERC CIP,
or other mandates,
these two capabilities are critical.
Integrated File, Directory, and Windows Registry Monitoring. Unlike other solutions, SecureVue captures changes to not only individual files, but entire directories as well as Windows registry values.
