Compliance reporting software

What is a compliance report?

Compliance reports provide an overview of an organization's adherence to various security standards set by regulatory bodies. These reports help identify risks associated with non-compliance so businesses can mitigate them as quickly as possible. Many industries, such as finance, healthcare, and telecommunications, use compliance auditing and reporting tools to gather information on different activities and processes across the organization and ensure that internal data is protected.

The importance of compliance auditing and reporting

Sensitive enterprise data is often at risk of being compromised. These days, organizations must establish network security processes to safeguard sensitive information and meet regulatory guidelines. Observing these regulatory compliance audit guidelines is crucial since being non-compliant can result in severe penalties.

Companies must demonstrate adherence to the various security standards during compliance audits by producing the corresponding reports. Regulatory bodies also require organizations to retain log data over long periods from their network devices and applications to allow the auditors to authenticate security incidents by checking the audit trails.

Compliance auditing and reporting tools, such as EventLog Analyzer, audit the logs generated in your network to help ensure your company is compliant with all regulations.

Benefits of automated compliance reporting

It's important to note that no organization can be fully compliant with all regulations at all times, which is why it's important to have a system in place that monitors compliance on an ongoing basis. This ensures that when there are changes or updates made to regulations, you can take immediate action before your business falls out of compliance.

How you can simplify IT compliance reporting with EventLog Analyzer

EventLog Analyzer helps your organization meet all its regulatory obligations by providing an audit trail of events across all systems, applications, and networks and helping identify areas of risk. This compliance reporting software enables you to generate predefined compliance reports for regulations such as the PCI DSS, FISMA, GLBA, SOX, HIPAA, or ISO 27001 by collecting, analyzing, and archiving Windows event logs and syslogs received from your network infrastructure.

EventLog Analyzer generates compliance reports easily by monitoring your network and sensitive data in real time. It also helps organizations retain and archive log data for custom periods, enabling you to perform forensic analysis on the archived logs to meet compliance audit requirements, investigate data thefts, and track network intruders.

With the world becoming more digitized, more regulations continue to come into play, including the GDPR and HIPAA. EventLog Analyzer can help with data protection, access rights, compliance alerting, and much more.

EventLog Analyzer | Compliance reporting benefits

• Generate out-of-the-box compliance reports for the PCI DSS, FISMA, GLBA, SOX, HIPAA, ISO 27001, and more
• Create compliance reports for both Windows Event logs and Linux or Unix syslogs
• Generate compliance reports from a centralized location
• Receive compliance reports in multiple formats, like PDF or CSV
• Schedule compliance reports to run periodically, and get them emailed to multiple administrators
• Create reports for new compliances
• Customize existing compliance reports according to your needs

Compliance Reports for the PCI DSS, FISMA, ISO 27001, HIPAA, SOX and GLBA

PCI DSS | Payment Card Industry - Data Security Standards Compliance Report

If your organization stores, transmits or processes customer credit card data, then you must comply with the PCI DSS.

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) was created to meet the rising threat to credit cardholder personal information. This includes card information thefts either from within the organization handling it or from external brute forces. Compliance to the PCI-DSS is mandatory for all organizations dealing with credit, debit and ATM cards, as defined by the PCI Security Standards Council, which includes industry giants like Visa, Master Card, and American Express.

FISMA | Federal Information Security Management Act Compliance Report

All government agencies, government contractors, and organizations that deal and exchange data with government systems must follow FISMA compliance guidelines. Organizations have to monitor, retain and maintain audit records of all security events as per the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA).

SOX | Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Report

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) requires companies to implement processes and controls to protect financial data. All companies need to produce the SOX report that tells the auditors in detail on how data security is handled internally.

HIPAA | Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Compliance Report

The Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulation impacts healthcare organizations which exchange patient health information electronically. HIPAA regulations were established to protect the integrity and security of health information, including protection against unauthorized use or disclosure of the confidential information.

HIPAA states that a security management process must exist to protect against "attempted or successful unauthorized access, use, disclosure, modification, or interference with system operations". When a breach of medical records occurs, healthcare service providers damage their brand value and end up paying a hefty monetary penalty.

GLBA | Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act Compliance Report

The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) insists that every financial institution should have polices and processes in place to protect "non-public personal information" from threats.

It is necessary that a security management process exists to protect against attempted or successful unauthorized access, use, disclosure, modification, or interference of customer records. In other words, being able to monitor, report, and alert on attempted or successful access to systems and applications that contain sensitive customer information.

ISO 27001 | Information Security Management System (ISMS) Compliance

ISO 27001 is the international standard for securing your information assets from threats. It is the best-known standard that provides precise requirements for a holistic information security management.

Value-added feature to create reports for new compliance and customize compliance reports

Create report for new compliance

EventLog Analyzer provides a feature to efficiently create reports for new audit compliances.

Custom compliance reports

EventLog Analyzer enables you to easily customize existing compliance reports.

Other features

SIEM

EventLog Analyzer provides log management, file integrity monitoring, and real-time event correlation capabilities in a single console to help meet SIEM requirements, combat security attacks, and prevent data breaches.

Log management

Centrally manage log data from sources across the network. Get predefined reports and real-time alerts that help meet security, compliance, and operational needs.

File integrity monitoring

Monitor critical changes to confidential files/folders with real-time alerts. Get detailed information such as "who made the change, what was changed, when, and from where" with predefined reports.

Log collection

Centrally collect log data from Windows servers or workstations, Linux/Unix servers, network devices viz., routers, switches, firewalls, and applications using agentless or agent-based methods.

Log analysis

Analyze log data from sources across the network. Detect anomalies, track critical security events, and monitor user behaviors with predefined reports, intuitive dashboards, and instant alerts.

Log forensics

Perform in-depth forensic analysis to backtrack attacks and identify the root cause of incidents. Save search queries as an alert profile to mitigate future threats.

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