Compliance Automation

AccelOps offers full log aggregation, real-time event correlation and online data retention with rules and reports mapped to leading management and compliance standards such as PCI, SOX, COBIT and HIPAA.

By incorporating an automated CMDB, statistical profiling and true identity binding for complete access records, AccelOps automates audit and control processes.

Why the AccelOps Compliance Solution is Better

Compliance Automation with Next Gen SIEM

The AccelOps compliance solution automates the enforcement of IT controls and problem resolution so compliance becomes part of daily operations – not another managed project.

Built in support for PCI, HIPAA, SOX, and COBIT

AccelOps ships with over 800 pre-defined reports including a comprehensive set of compliance reports covering PCI, HIPAA, SOX and COBIT.

Sophisticated Rule Framework for all Compliance Needs

AccelOps supports simple thresholds advancing analytics to describe any compliance scenario of interest. The rule language supports multiple sub-patterns (AND, OR, FOLLOWED_BY,..), broad operators (equals, greater than, contains, between,…), nested rules, and rule exceptions.

Compliance Management Dashboards and Flexible Reports

AccelOps provides fully extensible compliance management dashboards with built-in rules, reports and widgets mapped to various compliance standards. Any of the supplied reports may be copied or modified, or new reports built from the ground up to meet new compliance requirements.

Single solution for Long term and Real time log analysis

All of your data – both real-time and historical – is saved in the same optimized and scalable storage repository, allowing instant access to your real-time and historical compliance data all with a single tool.

Multi-Vendor Device Support

We discover all aspects of your IT infrastructure – networks, servers, storage, users, and applications, then monitor availability, performance, change, and security, enabling you to pinpoint the root cause of an incident in record time.

High Performance Event Processing

We use a patent-pending XML based event-parsing framework, providing device support flexibility without sacrificing event processing performance. Additionally, new devices and applications can be supported without a software upgrade.

Auto populated CMDB

AccelOps auto discovers and populates the CMDB (Configuration Management Database) for network devices, storage devices, servers, VMs, users and applications.

Business Service Prioritization

AccelOps provides a platform for quickly mapping IT infrastructure elements to business services, then analyzing the performance, availability and security issues of each business service. This enables better incident prioritization, faster problem diagnosis and greater uptime for the services that matter to your business.

Interactive layer 2 and layer 3 topology

AccelOps provides truly automatic, interactive Layer-2/3 topology mapping to instantly document any compliance segregated environment and visually assess incidents.

AccelOps SIEM FAQ

Compliance Automation

Standards and compliance are all about implementing policies, procedures and technologies that reduce business risk, as well as being able to efficiently validate that controls are working according to stated policy expectations and mandated requisites. Beyond setting policy and procedures, many tools in an IT’s management portfolio must support compliance efforts.

The question then becomes finding the right technologies that best automate control verification and documentation, as well as those that streamline internal and external audit challenge/response processes. Compliance considerations for IT management tools should include the means to:

Compliance
  • Validate a broad set of policies across technologies
  • Deliver on-demand results to auditor inquiries
  • Readily obtain applicable data and documentation
  • Normalize compliance-relevant data across disparate systems
  • Diminish compliance liabilities and audit duration
  • Meet auditing and data management standards
  • Identify control gaps and prioritize incident response
  • Adapt to existing security, governance and auditing processes
  • Respond to complex and rapidly changing environments

AccelOps satisfies all the above compliance considerations with built-in dashboards, analytics and reports mapped to leading standards and compliance best practices.

PCI Compliance

PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards), created by the Payment Card Industry, was designed to reduce cardholder data security issues and facilitate consistent global data protection standards and merchant assessment among payment card processing vendors.

PCI applies to any network, server or application that is included in or connected to the cardholder data environment where cardholder data is stored, processed, or transmitted. Applicable merchants and service providers must manage and monitor compliance including that of all associated third parties with access to cardholder data. The PCI standard v1.2, outlining twelve requirements and adherence testing, employs common security best practices to safeguard sensitive cardholder identity and transaction data.

AccelOps integrates the next generation security information event management capability with automatic CMDB features to deliver continuous compliance and unmatched PCI compliance.

AccelOps delivers a complete PCI compliance solution by:

  • Monitoring configuration changes to maintain appropriate firewall configuration protecting cardholder data
  • Monitoring system controls such as password management to negate using vendor-supplied defaults for system passwords
  • Monitoring the protection of cardholder data storage such as personal identifiable information and respective financial transactions
  • Monitoring processes that support encrypted transmission of cardholder data across open public networks
  • Monitoring, tracking and responding to malware activity supporting use and regular updating of anti-virus / anti-malware software
  • Monitoring controls regarding the development and maintenance of secure systems and applications
  • Monitoring, alerting and storing log records regarding access to cardholder data by business need-to-know
  • Monitoring physical access to cardholder data and alerting on restriction/access policy violations
  • Monitoring all access to network resources and cardholder data and document segregated access to payment processing resources

HIPPA Compliance

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a United States federal law that requires hospitals, physicians, and managed care companies to adopt medical information security, privacy, and data standards. HIPAA requires organizations to "audit and monitor system and user activity across the entire network, identify and investigate security breaches and suspicious behavior, and maintain an audit trail of user and network activity."

Being HIPAA compliant means virtual and physical configurations – from networks and servers to virtual machines and security infrastructure – must be maintained and assessed against HIPAA policies, and proven in the event of an audit.

Using an integrated monitoring solution, AccelOps continuously discovers, collects, parses, and correlates sensitive information needed to report evidence of HIPAA compliance and thus making audits quick and cost effective.

HIPAA Compliance

AccelOps delivers a complete HIPAA compliance solution by:

  • Monitoring, alerting and storing log records regarding authorized and unauthorized changes or event activity over a period of time with reports that display trends
  • Providing industry standards and benchmarks to automatically assess configurations, determining the degree of risk for operational, regulatory and security vulnerabilities
  • Monitoring and maintaining a known trusted systems state by establishing a secure baseline
  • Monitoring, tracking and responding to malware activity supporting use and regular updating of anti-virus / anti-malware software
  • Monitoring controls regarding the development and maintenance of secure systems and applications

SOX Compliance

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) requires that all publicly held companies must establish internal controls and procedures for financial reporting to reduce the possibility of corporate fraud. Being SOX compliant means your entire IT infrastructure – from server and network security to IT practices and operations – must be reinforced and configured to maintain and demonstrate continuous SOX compliance in the event of an audit.

The IT Governance Institute’s Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT) is most frequently used to help achieve Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance, but also to ensure security and availability of IT assets in general.

Using an integrated monitoring solution, AccelOps continuously discovers, collects, parses, and correlates sensitive information needed to report evidence of SOX compliance and thus making audits quick and cost effective.

SOX Compliance

It delivers a complete SOX compliance solution by:

  • Comparing configuration changes to gold systems and then reporting variances with the "golden system"
  • Monitoring, alerting and storing log records regarding authorized and unauthorized changes or event activity over a period of time with reports that display trends
  • Providing industry standards and benchmarks to automatically assess configurations, determining the degree of risk for operational, regulatory and security vulnerabilities.
  • Monitoring controls regarding the development and maintenance of secure systems and applications
  • Monitoring, tracking and responding to malware activity supporting use and regular updating of anti-virus / anti-malware software
  • Monitoring and maintaining a known and trusted systems state by establishing a secure baseline