Event log data is a unique source of information for security, audit, compliance and troubleshooting. Native event logging mechanisms provided by Windows systems don't have built-in consolidation, archiving and reporting features, required to effectively utilize event data and comply with external regulations like SOX, HIPAA, PCI, and others. Numerous event logs in uncompressed format spread all over the network, with tons of events lost every day because of overwrites, represent a big security and compliance issue.Summary: Limitations of Native Tools
NetWrix Event Log Manager is an event log consolidation, alerting and archiving tool that allows you to collect events logs from multiple computers across the network, alerting on most critical events and centrally storing all events in a compressed format that enables convenient analysis of archived event log data.
TheFreeware editionsupports up to 10 servers. The product also has anEnterprise editionthat supports unlimited number of servers, features long-term archiving storage and distributed data collection for highest performance. Thelong-term archiving of event logsis required by compliance regulations, e.g. SOX and HIPAA require 7 years of data, PCI requires 1 year, etc.
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