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NTP Software Best Practices Newsletter – October 2009
 
Data Governance and the Need for File Auditing
 
 
 
 NTP Software News & Events
 
  NTP Software has announced a new product called NTP Software File Auditor ™. This solution provides real-time monitoring of access of your data. It helps to address companies' critical needs in the area of data governance. Click here to view more information on this solution.
 
 
 Industry News
 
  Storage Networking World was held in October and Infostor has an interesting article on storage vendors' announcements during the show. To view the article click here.  
 
 Tech Tidbits
 
  Fox News reports that 43 million people fell for fake anti-virus scam. Click here to view the article.  
 
 
Patrick Hynds
Patrick Hynds
Sr. Storage Architect, NTP Software
The rapid growth of unstructured data makes data governance a real challenge. Storage administrators have a daunting task in seeking to enforce retention, integrity and security policies on their file data in order to meet regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, SOX, PCI DSS, etc. Knowing that John read or even deleted a file is incredibly valuable in many situations, but modern operating systems offer no easy way to target getting that exact data.
As compliance requirements start to cover more and more operational data, you need a way to track detailed events for specific areas.

When files are deleted, read, moved or changed it is often very important to know who did what and when, but given the sheer volume of data on modern storage systems it is not practical to record everything. If you tried to capture everything as it happened you would quickly find that you had more data about how your data is being used than you could ever handle.

What you need is a way to setup just the right monitoring for only those activities that are of interest in your specific situation and then have a way to index and pull out just the significant items that can save the day by answering the important questions. That is exactly what NTP Software File Auditor™ can do for you.

NTP Software File Auditor allows you to use the familiar interface seen in other NTP Software products to configure exactly what file events you want to track and then provides robust reporting so you can see the results. You can even leverage File Auditor to discover when users who should not have access to sensitive data are accessing it, so you can lock down storage security in cases where things have gotten a bit too loose. File Auditor also gives you on- demand HIPAA, SOX, PCI DSS reports.

NTP Software File Auditor helps you address critical data governance requirements by exposing unintended entitlements, spotting inappropriate use, and tracking unwanted access.

Data governance is a difficult task and storage managers and administrators need all the help they can get.

To learn more click here.

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