Auditing in XML
White Papers Oracle Database 10g provides auditing to record the activities of users in the database. When the activities occur (for example, a user updates a certain table), the database records the facts in the audit trails, which can be in the database in a...
[October 11, 2006, 1:00]
Better Together: Auditing with Microsoft Audit Collection Services (ACS) and Quest Software
White Papers Auditing and reporting for the Microsoft platform is one of the most critical aspects of security across the enterprise. Microsoft's Audit Collection Services (an important piece in System Center Operations Manager 2007) and the auditing...
[April 6, 2009, 10:24]
White Paper on Information Security Auditing / Implementation Procedures
White Papers This white paper discusses Information Technology (IT) auditing techniques and secure network implementation methodologies. The auditing process can be performed using various methodologies. Information security is an ever-evolving challenge...
[November 27, 2003, 4:51]
The Convergence of Provisioning and Identity Auditing: The Key to Cost-Effective Compliance and Collaboration
White Papers The merging of cost, compliance, and online commerce as chief business concerns is driving the convergence of provisioning and identity auditing capabilities as well as the demand that such a converged solution be both sustainable and highly...
[September 1, 2009, 1:23]
Information Technology Auditing and Facilitated Control Self-Assurance
White Papers A fundamental requirement for effective auditing is to provide an opinion to the executive team and the board audit committee on the adequacy of the internal control framework operating within the organisation's Information Technology and...
[March 21, 2006, 23:00]
The Importance of Auditing Your Exchange 2003 Server(s)
White Papers This paper explains why auditing the Exchange 2003 Server(s) in the messaging environment is crucial. Auditing can be separated in a couple of different categories; there are Windows Server event auditing, Exchange diagnostics logging and finally...
[October 20, 2006, 1:00]
Major Hospital Enhances Auditing Infrastructure Using SQL Server 2008
White Papers BIDMC needed a better auditing solution to help ensure compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). BIDMC is upgrading to Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise database software and using resources from the SQL...
[May 30, 2009, 1:19]
Improving Compliance and Efficiency With Sun Identity Auditing: Sun-on-Sun Case Study
White Papers Faced with increasing compliance challenges since the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and other regulations governing data integrity and privacy, Sun deployed Sun identity auditing and other identity management capabilities to improve...
[September 11, 2007, 1:00]
Auditing Requirements and IT Responsibilities for HIPAA electronic record security regulation
White Papers This webinar provides an overview of the regulatory evolution from 21 CFR Part 11 to include protected health information (PHI), the security standards, auditing requirements, IT responsibilities and workforce responsibilities for HIPAA electronic...
[January 18, 2008, 10:49]
Updated Application Speeds Chicago Mercantile Exchange's Auditing Functions
White Papers The exchange needed to improve its member firm financial statement auditing application, which was written in Microsoft Visual Basic version 6.0. After evaluating and rejecting J2EE, CME decided to implement the new auditing and tracking...
[May 30, 2007, 1:00]
Database Activity Monitoring: Intrusion Detection and Security Auditing
White Papers Intrusion Detection/Security Auditing is an additional layer of necessary security. Security auditing is an independent review and examination of data processing system records and activities to test for adequacy of system controls, to ensure...
[May 31, 2008, 1:01]
Litigation Data Analysis/Auditing/ETL for BI: Triples Separated at Birth
White Papers This paper shows how the steps in Litigation Data Analysis (Litigation Analysis), Auditing and Extract-Transform-Load for Business Intelligence (ETL for BI, or data warehousing for business data analysis) are inherently similar; it is just the...
[December 27, 2006, 0:00]
The Future of Auditing Standards, and Their Impact on Corporate Governance
White Papers Although the backlash from the Enron, MCI, and myriad other scandals continues to argue for new regulations to ensure tough auditing, controls and governance standards, finance executives and other corporate constituencies are making a strong case...
[October 20, 2005, 0:00]
Independently Auditing Service Level Agreements in the Grid
White Papers This paper presents on-going efforts towards developing an automatic and independent SLA (Service Level Agreement) auditing service to be used with Grid/Web Services. This solution has the goal of auditing services accurately without imposing a...
[July 16, 2004, 3:00]
Fine-Grained Auditing for Real-World Problems
White Papers Traditional Oracle Database auditing options lets track the actions users perform on objects at the macro level - for example, if one audits for SELECT statements on a table, he or she can track who selected data from the table.
[October 11, 2006, 0:00]
Fine-Grained Auditing for Real-World Problems, Part 2
White Papers In the Part 1 of this series, the author described how to build a Fine-Grained Auditing (FGA) system to audit select statements, capturing the statements depending on certain conditions - a task impossible in regular auditing or though the use of...
[October 11, 2006, 0:00]
Fine-Grained Auditing for Real-World Problems, Part 3
White Papers In the previous two papers of this series, the author introduced the concept of Fine-Grained Auditing (FGA) used to track select statements in Oracle9i Database and up. He also explained how to use the feature in complex environments such as within...
[October 11, 2006, 0:00]
Mainframe Webcast Updates - eTrust Cleanup and eTrust CA-Examine Auditing - What's New and What's Next
White Papers Computer Associates (CA) is committed to assuring that eTrust Cleanup and eTrust CA-Examine Auditing be the most flexible, cost effective z/OS security auditing solution on the market. This webcast will highlight the enhancements of eTrust Cleanup...
[November 17, 2005, 23:00]
Auditing the benefits
Blog Comment No, I'm not sure many senior managers are aware of the need to, or ability to, audit software. This is even more interesting given that a UK firm has just been fined £250,000 for using a considerable amount of unlicensed software.http://news.zdnet...
[June 26, 2007, 19:00]
Controlling, Delegating, Logging and Auditing UNIX/Linux Root Actions
White Papers This document discusses the use of Symark PowerBroker software to address some of the security and audit problems inherent in native UNIX and Linux operating systems. The purpose of the document is to demonstrate the value of PowerBroker as a tool...
[June 17, 2009, 12:07]



