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Quick Start
- Overview
- System requirements
- Minimum privileges required
- Default port configuration
- Installing DataSecurity Plus
- Uninstalling DataSecurity Plus
- Starting DataSecurity Plus
- Launching DataSecurity Plus
- Configuring your solution
- Licensing details
- Applying a license
File Auditing
- About File Auditing
- Domain configuration
- File server configuration
- Failover cluster configuration
- NetApp server configuration
- Nutanix server configuration
- Workgroup configuration
Setting up File Audit
Dashboard
Reports
Alerts
Configuration
Storage Configuration
File Analysis
- About File Analysis
- Domain configuration
- File server configuration
- Workgroup configuration
- SMB File Server Configuration
- On-Demand Reports
Setting up File Analysis
Dashboard
Reports
Alerts
Configuration
Data Risk Assessment
- About Data risk assessment
Setting up Data risk assessment
Dashboard
Reports
Ownership analysis
Configuration
Endpoint DLP
- About Endpoint DLP
Setting up Endpoint DLP
Reports
Alerts
Prevention policies
Configuration
Cloud Protection
- About Cloud Protection
- Gateway Server Installation Steps
- Gateway Configuration in Endpoint
- Gateway Cluster Configuration
- Gateway Server Management
- Certificate Authority Configuration
- Two-way SSL configuration
- Manage Certificate Trust Store
- Threat Analytics Database
- Manage Banned Applications
- Manage Authorized Applications
- Regenerating gateway server access key
- Updating gateway server
- Gateway Server Failover
- Load Balancer Configuration
- Global Insight
- Application Insight
- User Insight
- Shadow Application Insight
- Banned Application Insight
- Cloud App Discovery
- File Upload & Download Reports
- Control Policy reports
- General Reports
- Application Insights
- Shadow Domain Insights
- Banned Domain Insights
Setting up Cloud Protection
Dashboard
Reports
Control Policies
Storage Configuration
Administrative settings
- Technician configuration
- Notification filters
- Manage agent
- Agent settings
- SIEM integration
- Business hours configuration
- Two-factor authentication
- Workgroup configuration
- Security policy
Email configuration
General settings
- Connection
- Personalize
- DataSecurity Plus Server
- Privacy Settings
- Disk utilization
- Schedule Retention Policy
Release notes
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Troubleshooting
- HTTP communication failure
- Dormant DataEngine
- Secure Gateway server failure
- RPC communication failure
- Cloud Protection Gateway server failure
- Known issues and limitations
- Known errors and solutions
- Report discrepancy in File Analysis
Guides
- Agent document
- How to Migrate/Move DataSecurity Plus
- How to apply SSL certificate
- How to automate DataSecurity Plus database backup
- How to set alerts in DataSecurity Plus
- How to secure your DataSecurity Plus installation
About File Auditing
DataSecurity Plus' File Auditing is real-time Windows file server auditing and analysis software that monitors, audits, alerts, and reports on all file accesses and modifications made in your file server environment.
Key capabilities
Audit file accesses
Audit file accesses and modifications to track who accessed what file, when, and from where.
Monitor file changes
Track and trigger instant alerts for unusual changes made to your sensitive files.
Audit copy and paste
Track file copy and paste actions across your file servers and to and from workstations.
Audit access rights
Audit NTFS and file share permissions to know who has access to which files and what actions they can perform.
Combat ransomware
Detect and shut down ransomware attacks instantly with an automated threat response mechanism.
Monitor file integrity
Detect and alert on unauthorized changes to critical files through real-time monitoring.
Supported platforms
Leverage File Auditing across the supported Windows domain server, workgroup server, file cluster, and NAS server.
- Supported Windows Server OS: Windows Server 2008 R2 and above
- Supported NAS servers:
- NetApp version: ONTAP 8.3 and above
- Nutanix files
In addition to the operating systems mentioned above, the DataSecurity Plus agent can only be run on machines with .NET Framework version 4.5.
