VMware Auditing Software

When application downtime happens in your VMware environment, you need to respond immediately: you must quickly identify the root cause of the problem and restore the business-critical processes that depend on your virtualization technologies as soon as possible. Because any change to hardware configuration or vCenter servers can affect your virtual machines and degrade VMware performance, you need efficient VMware monitoring to keep track of those changes. Native tools can be helpful here; however, be ready to spend significant time and effort manually sifting through logs. Netwrix Auditor for VMware, on the other hand, delivers ready-to-use reports with all the details, such as who made each change and when and where it happened, including the before and after values. Plus, you can easily subscribe to any reports and view them on the schedule you set.

IT auditing of virtualized infrastructures and reporting on all changes is an important aspect of any virtualization strategy. Undesired changes — whether accidental or malicious — are not rare and can potentially lead to sensitive data leaks, application and services failures, and expensive downtime. Netwrix Auditor offers an impressive array of detailed and easy-to-read reports containing all the necessary audit information about each change, giving organizations complete visibility into their virtualized VMware technologies.

Monitoring vSphere virtualization platform for changes is critical to sustaining overall virtual environment health and security. Netwrix Auditor for VMware helps you monitor vSphere configuration changes, including host system settings, cluster resources and individual virtual machines. Off-the-shelf change reports provide you with key details about critical modifications, including previous and current configuration values. This audit information helps enforce and validate internal controls in support of various compliance regulations and standards.

Keeping virtual environments running at peak performance is a top priority for system administrators. To protect your critical systems and data, you can periodically take snapshots of the virtual machine state, including system memory and the virtual disk file system. If something goes wrong (for example, an update goes awry), you can use the VMware snapshot to revert to a previous state known to be good. However, letting a growing pile of VMware snapshot files linger in your system will slowly eat away at both storage space and VM performance. Efficient VMware snapshot management helps you minimize the risk of performance hits and drained disk space.

Are you keeping your VMware environment secure? Are you sure the data on your virtual machines is protected from insider and outsider threats? Any unauthorized change to system configuration can jeopardize the availability of your virtualization technology, leading to downtime, or resulting in costly compliance failures. The VMware reporting tool from Netwrix provides actionable, ready-to-use reports on user activity across your VMware infrastructure, enabling you to quickly remediate possible threats and avoid downtime. Plus, automated report delivery on the schedule you set will slash report preparation time and keep you informed.

Virtualization enables IT departments to reduce operating costs and optimize their resources. But it raises additional concerns about the security of IT systems, since it introduces an additional layer to the IT environment. There are many tools that can help you mitigate the risks associated with virtualization. For example, a VMware audit checklist is a list of recommendations designed to strengthen the security of your virtual infrastructure. It can include step-by-step guidance on setup and general controls, resource provisioning and deprovisioning, and virtual environment management. However, those guidelines generally focus on configuration, deployment and implementation of controls, and fail to cover continuous server audit for changes made to your virtual infrastructure, which is equally important to overall security and risk mitigation.

Today, organizations of all sizes embrace virtualization to reduce hardware costs, speed server provisioning and more. But if you run virtual machines and store cardholder data, you must watch your VMware infrastructure like a hawk to ensure no activity jeopardizes your VMware security and data privacy policy. In fact, meeting strict PCI DSS 3.2 security requirements can feel like a nightmare. Netwrix Auditor for VMware takes the burden of VMware PCI compliance off your shoulders. It enables you to address PCI requirements and helps you safeguard your sensitive data by identifying risks threatening it, all while slashing audit report preparation time by 50%.

Undocumented and unmonitored modifications to VMware settings, including changes to VMs, ESXi hosts and vCenter servers, can result in security breaches and failed compliance audits. But maintaining VMware compliance with a constantly growing list of internal policies, regulations and standards can be a significant challenge. Netwrix Auditor helps you ensure and maintain a compliance capable VMware environment, and also provides the evidence you need to prove that your security program adheres to the requirements of the regulatory mandates you may be subject to, such as PCI DSS, HIPAA, NERC CIP and CJIS.

When there’s an unauthorized change to VMware vCenter Server permissions or a virtual machine is unexpectedly deleted, you need to be the first one to know, so you can minimize the risk of system downtime and protect your highly sensitive assets. However, is there a way to ensure that no important change slips by your radar? With Netwrix Auditor, you can set VMware alerts to issue an alarm whenever a critical change occurs, so you can rapidly spot events threatening your VMware security without having to sift through piles of cryptic logs. Moreover, you can customize the alerts just the way you need, so the critical activity that you specify triggers them immediately.