Windows File Server
Auditing Software

For organizations that rely on EMC storage appliances, EMC auditing is critical to data protection, enforcement of internal controls and adherence to external regulations.
Netwrix Auditor for EMC tracks every change on EMC Isilon, VNX, VNXe and Celerra devices and converts audit data into human-readable reports. You can easily see who made each change, when and where it happened, and what was changed, including the previous and current values.

Netwrix Auditor for NetApp provides comprehensive auditing capabilities for your NetApp filer appliances. It enables continuous NetApp monitoring and delivers complete visibility into all events and changes across your NetApp Filer devices.
Netwrix Auditor for NetApp automatically collects audit data and stores it in a reliable two-tiered storage. Easy-to-understand reports provide complete details about who made file, folder and permission changes, and when and where each change happened. Other reports identify who attempted to access protected objects on NetApp filer devices and whether the attempt succeeded or failed.

Information workers rely on file servers and storage devices for accessing critical files: HR files, financial data, business plans and more. Though content owners and IT departments work together to ensure that data is available only to those who need it, simply setting up all configurations on file servers and leaving them alone is not enough to protect confidential information from unauthorized access. That's why it's a must to constantly keep tabs on file access and monitor user activity on file servers.
File access auditing software from Netwrix tracks all file read events across multiple file servers and reports on them, with detailed information about who tried to read which file, when and where the attempt was made, and whether the attempt was successful. This enables organizations of any size to tighten their data security and adhere to compliance regulations.

By default, file systems lack any easy-to-use change and configuration auditing. Therefore auditing a file system becomes an exhausting manual process. Logging into each server, searching through hundreds of event logs, formatting reports and distributing them on a scheduled basis takes too much time and is prone to error.
Netwrix Auditor for Windows File Servers overcomes the limitations of native auditing and automates the manual work by providing comprehensive file system tracking capabilities. By showing who changed what, when and where each change was made, and the current and previous values, Netwrix Auditor transforms complicated audit logs into easy-to-understand information.

Lack of proper file server permissions audit capabilities puts critical data at risk. Accidental or malicious changes to file permissions can lead to unauthorized access or unwanted changes to content that result in data loss, interrupted business processes or failed compliance audits.
The file permissions audit tool from Netwrix provides a complete picture of the current state of permissions, as well as the changes to permissions that took place within a specified time frame. It helps IT administrators confirm on a regular basis that only eligible employees in their organizations have access to confidential files and that no file permissions are changed without their approval.

In order to protect business data on file servers and keep storage costs under control at the same time, enterprises need to gain visibility into everything happening on file servers. Who has access to what? Are there any redundant permissions? Which files and folders are no longer in use and can be defensibly deleted? Who owns the largest files? With file analysis technology that helps answer these questions, it's much easier to make informed decisions regarding further data management actions.
Netwrix Auditor for Windows File Servers provides detailed file analysis reports that enable security professionals and storage managers to better understand their organizations' data structures and their usage, so they can make proactive and well-informed information management decisions.

IT professionals are often asked by their manager or auditors to provide comprehensive reports with answers to specific questions about file servers. Reporting tools that can provide this detailed information are therefore
of the utmost necessity.
Because native tools don't deliver any reports, IT admins have to implement multiple scripts to export information about activity in file systems running on Windows Server. File auditing capabilities offered by Netwrix Auditor for Windows File Servers eliminate all that work by providing insightful reports on changes and access to files and folders on your Windows Server, file server configurations and file server permissions, simplifying audits and slashing IT workload.