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Information technology auditors are faced with rapidly growing unstructured data in their data centers, including sensitive information such as intellectual property, confidential customer or employee data, and proprietary company records. The need to audit unstructured data to keep company proprietary information secure, as well as the need to comply with governmental regulations, drives the need for business-critical audit capabilities.
Auditing can detect many potential sources of data loss, including fraudulent activities, inappropriate entitlements, unauthorized access attempts, and a range of other anomalies that are indicators of risk. Customers in industries such as financial services, health care, life sciences, and media and entertainment, as well as in governmental agencies, must meet stringent regulatory requirements developed to protect against these sources of data loss.
Segment | Key business drivers |
Financial services | Compliance requirements for the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) |
Health care | Compliance requirements for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) 21 CFR (Part 11) |
Life sciences | Compliance requirements for the Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act (GINA) |
Media and entertainment | Security requirements for Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) content movement |
Federal agencies | Security requirements for Security Technical Information Guide (STIG)/Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) |
Depending on the regulation requirements, auditing file system operations, such as file creation or deletion, is required to demonstrate compliance with chain of custody. In other scenarios, the goal of auditing is to track configuration changes to the storage system. Lastly, auditing needs to track activities such as logon/logoff events, which may not involve file data or configuration changes. The audit enhancements included in Dell EMC PowerScale OneFS 8.0 addresses these needs for SMB, NFS and HDFS workflows and PowerScale cluster configuration changes.