¶ Audit and Compliance
The Audit and Compliance system in the eTag Fuse platform provides organizations with powerful tools to track, monitor, and audit user activities, system events, and security policies. By maintaining detailed logs and generating compliance reports, organizations can ensure adherence to regulatory standards and internal policies, while minimizing security risks.
Capture detailed logs of all user activities, system events, and security actions to ensure complete traceability and accountability across the platform.
- Capabilities: Log user access, changes to system settings, security events, and application usage, providing a clear audit trail for review.
- Full Visibility: Ensure that all actions taken by users and administrators are recorded for audit and security purposes.
Generate reports to demonstrate compliance with regulatory requirements, such as GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and internal security policies.
- Capabilities: Create audit-ready reports that summarize user activities, security events, and policy enforcement for external audits or internal reviews.
- Regulatory Compliance: Ensure the platform meets all necessary legal and industry-specific compliance standards through regular reporting.
Track and audit user access to sensitive data and critical systems, ensuring that access control policies are properly enforced.
- Capabilities: Monitor who accessed what data, when, and from where, ensuring that unauthorized access is flagged and reviewed.
- Role-Based Auditing: Generate reports showing user access by role, group, or individual, ensuring access policies align with compliance standards.
¶ 4. Policy and Configuration Auditing
Audit changes made to security policies, system configurations, and administrative settings to maintain visibility over key security controls.
- Capabilities: Track modifications to security policies, role assignments, and system configurations, ensuring all changes are logged and can be reviewed.
- Security Policy Compliance: Ensure that critical security policies are enforced and any changes are documented for compliance purposes.
¶ 5. Risk Management and Incident Reporting
Provide insights into potential risks, incidents, and system vulnerabilities by analyzing audit logs and generating risk assessment reports.
- Capabilities: Identify high-risk activities, flag security incidents, and generate reports detailing potential threats or policy violations.
- Incident Response: Use audit data to understand the scope and impact of security incidents and take corrective actions.
¶ 6. Data Retention and Integrity
Ensure that audit logs are stored securely and retained for a specified period, in accordance with regulatory requirements.
- Capabilities: Configure data retention policies to store audit logs for the required duration, ensuring that data remains accessible for audits and investigations.
- Secure Storage: Ensure that logs are protected from tampering or unauthorized access, maintaining the integrity of audit data.
¶ 7. Real-Time Monitoring and Alerts
Monitor audit logs in real-time to detect security breaches or compliance violations as they happen, and configure alerts for immediate action.
- Capabilities: Set up alerts for specific events, such as failed login attempts, unauthorized data access, or policy changes, allowing administrators to respond quickly.
- Instant Notifications: Receive real-time notifications of critical events that require immediate attention, reducing response times.
Maintain a complete audit trail to provide transparency and accountability during regulatory investigations or internal audits.
- Capabilities: Ensure that all actions taken by users, administrators, and the system itself are recorded, providing a reliable audit trail for legal and compliance reviews.
- Accountability: Use audit trails to demonstrate adherence to internal and external policies during investigations or compliance checks.
Audit and Compliance integrates with other security components in the Fuse platform, ensuring that logs from authentication, session management, and access control are captured and monitored.
- Capabilities: Collect and correlate data from various security systems, including Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), Risk-Based Authentication (RBA), and session management, providing a complete picture of system activities.
- Comprehensive Logging: Ensure all relevant security events are logged and available for review in the Audit and Compliance system.
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GDPR Compliance for Data Access: A company uses Audit and Compliance to monitor and log all access to personally identifiable information (PII), ensuring compliance with GDPR and providing reports during regulatory audits.
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Internal Security Audits for Financial Institutions: A bank uses the platform’s audit logs to track user access to financial data and generate compliance reports for internal reviews, ensuring adherence to strict financial regulations.
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Incident Investigation for Data Breaches: An organization leverages Audit and Compliance to investigate a security breach by reviewing logs of all user activities, identifying the source of the breach, and taking corrective action.
The Audit and Compliance system in the eTag Fuse platform ensures that organizations can monitor activities, maintain compliance, and respond to regulatory requirements. With comprehensive logging, reporting, and real-time monitoring, organizations can confidently enforce policies and safeguard against risks.