LogCaster Sarbanes-Oxley includes best-practice methods for meeting Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. It provides exactly what is necessary to prove that you have effective control over access to financial data, including changes to the user accounts with authorized access and the ability to raise a red flag when a breach in procedures is encountered -- all necessary steps to meeting your auditor’s requirements.

LogCaster Sarbanes-Oxley is a comprehensive solution centered around the management of event logs and the ability to interrogate events in real time; identify the events that are required for reporting and provide a means to automatically respond to events that require immediate attention. Additionally, LogCaster automates the process of archiving event logs from critical servers and workstations that contain financial data.

LogCaster provides specific rules to isolate the events that show specific interaction between financial data and the systems that protect that data. Rules fall under the categories of:

• Account Management
• Log-on & Log-off
• Object Access
• Policy Change
• Other System Security - such as ensuring the integrity of event logs by identifying and reporting when an event log is cleared by an unauthorized user or when a gap in the processing of events is detected

These rules identify the occurrences of the specific actions that must be monitored and recorded for compliance. When a specific event is identified, one or all of the following can take place: Notification can be sent, corrective action can occur, collect and store event information and/or report on information.

LogCaster for Sarbanes-Oxley provides the key reports that management and auditors rely on to prove that “internal controls” are in place and effective.