Netwrix Auditor for

SQL Server

SQL Server Security Auditing

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What data can I get?

How can I use this data?

What data can I get?

Details about changes to SQL Server objects and permissions

Native SQL Server audit log files contain so much noise that it’s hard to single out critical changes that can endanger the security and availability of your databases. Netwrix Auditor filters out this noise and provides clear information on changes to SQL Server objects and permissions — including created, modified and deleted server instances, roles, tables, columns, stored procedures and data — so you can detect and revert unwarranted modifications before they result in data leaks or downtime.

Details about changes to SQL Server objects and permissions

Information on successful and failed login attempts

For security and compliance purposes, it's important to audit every login attempt to your SQL Server databases. Netwrix Auditor delivers visibility into successful and failed logins to SQL Server instances through Windows or SQL Server authentication, along with details about the name of the account and the application used to log in. This facilitates prompt detection of unauthorized access and possible attacks.

Information about permissions

SQL Server’s complex set of permissions at various levels makes it a challenge to tell which data is at risk. Netwrix Auditor untangles SQL Server permissions and provides a clear picture of who has access to what important data, so you can revoke excessive permissions in time to prevent data breaches and compliance violations.

Information about permissions

Insight into data sensitivity

To protect your sensitive data, you need to know exactly where it resides on your SQL servers and the level of security around it. Netwrix Auditor’s Data Discovery and Classification enables you to identify sensitive data across your SQL Server instances so you can make sure that no critical information is stored outside of a secure location in violation of corporate security controls and regulatory standards.

How can I use this data?

Receive alerts on the most critical events

Native SQL Server auditing tools lack alerting capabilities, which makes it challenging to promptly detect critical events. With the SQL Server security auditing software from Netwrix, you can identify insider threats faster by configuring alerts on changes and access events that can threaten your SQL Server security. For instance, an Active Directory administrator trying to directly access one of your production databases is a red flag that requires your immediate attention.

Receive alerts on the most critical events

Improve detection of abnormal behavior

Insiders can tread carefully as they conduct reconnaissance and slowly home in on sensitive information. To make sure that no malicious insider slips under your radar, Netwrix Auditor provides a single view of all anomalous behavior in your environment, highlighting the users who pose the highest risk.

Stay abreast of subtle indicators of compromise and security blind spots

To harden SQL Server security, it's crucial to stay on the lookout for suspicious user activity like someone being active outside business hours or attempting multiple failed SQL Server logins. Regularly check Netwrix Auditor’s User Behavior and Blind Spot Analysis reports to quickly identify subtle indicators of threats and investigate what’s happening before it's too late.

Stay abreast of subtle indicators of compromise and security blind spots

Investigate security incidents and troubleshoot issues faster

If someone deletes one of your databases, you’ll want to immediately investigate how that happened. Instead of manually reviewing native database audit events, use Netwrix Auditor's Interactive Search to quickly address your specific questions. Plus, you can create custom reports and set up alerts based on your findings to stay aware of similar incidents in the future.

Gain a high-level view of changes across all audited SQL servers

To spot unusual spikes in user activity, you need to see consolidated statistics on activity across your SQL servers. By reviewing the SQL Server Overview dashboard, you can easily identify the dates with the most actions, the users who have made the most changes, the SQL servers that are most frequently changed and the object types that are most modified.

Gain a high-level view of changes across all audited SQL servers

Pass compliance audits with less effort

Whenever you prepare reports for auditors, going through the native SQL Server audit logs is time-consuming and not very efficient. With Netwrix Auditor, you can slash time on audit preparation by making use of out-of-the-box compliance reports tailored to PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, SOX, GLBA, FISMA/NIST and other common regulatory standards.

What else do I get with Netwrix Auditor
for SQL Server?

Easy integration with your ecosystem

Automated incident response

Cost-effective data storage

Granular access to the platform resources

Easy integration with your ecosystem

Unlike many other SQL Server security auditing solutions, Netwrix Auditor has a RESTful API that lets you integrate it with other security, compliance and IT management tools so you can expand visibility to other systems and have your entire audit trail available from a single place.

Easy integration with your ecosystem

Automated incident response

With Netwrix Auditor, you can automate response to common SQL Server management tasks and anticipated incidents by embedding scripts in alerts. For example, you can lock out an admin user who is trying to alter SQL Server configuration. This functionality empowers you to react to threats faster and ensure a prompt and consistent response.

Automated incident response

Cost-effective data storage

Many regulatory compliance standards require retaining the SQL Server audit trail for extended periods. Netwrix Auditor security auditing software can store your audit trail in a two-tiered (file-based + SQL database), cost-effective storage for more than 10 years, while enabling easy access to the archived data for historic reviews and inquiries.

Cost-effective data storage

Granular access to the platform resources

To keep the SQL Server auditing process secure, Netwrix Auditor enables you to granularly assign the appropriate access rights to specific administrators or groups of users in accordance with their job responsibilities, enabling you to adhere to the least-privilege principle.

Granular access to the platform resources

Read how Netwrix Auditor for SQL Server can help you detect database security threats, pass compliance audits with less effort and increase the productivity of your DBAs.

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On-premises

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SQL Server Security Auditing

What data can I get?

How can I use this data?

What else do I get with Netwrix Auditor for SQL Server?

Deploy Netwrix Auditor wherever you need it

What else do I get with Netwrix Auditor
for SQL Server?