IT Compliance Management
with Security Event Manager
Automated monitoring to help simplify IT compliance management
Align company processes with legal regulations and industry standards
Centrally monitor log and event data
Managing compliance successfully requires monitoring, analyzing, and storing log and event data—such as access to sensitive information, user authentication tracking, and device configuration changes. All this information must be readily available for forensic analysis, auditing, and reporting.
SolarWinds® Security Event Manager (SEM) makes it easy to meet network security monitoring and centralized log management requirements imposed by many auditing authorities. Using real-time log analysis and cross-event correlation from sources throughout your entire infrastructure, SolarWinds SEM can help quickly uncover policy violations, identify attacks, and highlight threats. SEM provides the security, collection, monitoring, and real-time responses required to support compliance reporting and assist with meeting corporate policies.
Detect IT compliance violations
SEM provides the real-time monitoring and audit trail required by most regulations to support IT compliance, making it a valuable compliance capability. SEM collects and monitors user, network element, database, and application activity logs to help you discover potential compliance violations. The rich UI also supports drag-and-drop, data visualization, and interactive search for ease of use.
Other features that support IT compliance management include:
- Collects system and user activities to easily reconstruct events of interest or mitigate emerging threats.
- Monitors access to sensitive information to provide a log data chain of custody.
- Supports data -monitoring and retention requirements.
- Reduces storage space and costs using a high-compression data store.
- Performs real-time cross-device, cross-event correlation.
- Correlates relationships between nominally unrelated activities.
Correlates multiple events, including the distinct ability to set independent thresholds for activity per event or group.
Automate compliance violation responses
Critical security issues require immediate actions to contain the damage. With SEM, you can use an intuitive interface to interactively troubleshoot and respond to IT problems—or use correlation rules to automatically monitor and react. You can also respond to critical events by either sending notifications or using the active response functionality to trigger automated actions. This includes blocking an IP address, resetting a user account password, sending an alert (like an email, pop-up message, or SNMP trap), as well as creating, disabling, and deleting a user account or user group.
Generate compliance reports
Organizations must provide IT operational and security audit information to meet industry-specific compliance requirements, like PCI DSS, GLBA, SOX, NERC CIP, and HIPAA, as well as internal corporate compliance standards. SEM has an integrated reporting capability that makes it simple to generate compliance reports and graphical summaries to help demonstrate IT compliance. Use the out-of-the-box report templates to quickly generate compliance reports or customize the reports per the compliance requirements.
Gain superior visibility with SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted
SolarWinds® Observability Self-Hosted offers a powerful solution for organizations seeking to enhance their security through comprehensive visibility and streamlined compliance support. Integrating seamlessly with SolarWinds' SEM, Access Rights Manager (ARM), and Patch Manager, it merges diverse data streams into a unified view as Security Observability. This integration boosts detection and response while supporting compliance efforts by centralizing oversight of security events, access rights, and patching, resulting in greater visibility and easier security and compliance-related activities in complex hybrid cloud environments.
"We identified several compliance issues after our first use of SEM, but most importantly, we were able to identify and stop a DoS attack on several Windows servers due to alarm notifications sent."
Virtualization Administrator
University of San Diego
Automate and Simplify Your IT Compliance Management
Security Event Manager
- Help demonstrate auditable compliance across industry-specific IT regulatory frameworks.
- Block malicious IPs, patch vulnerabilities, and detect unusual activity in your network.
- Receive intelligent alerts to detect and respond to security threats and compliance violations.
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