Change Visibility

When a failure happens in the IT infrastructure, the first question which gets asked is, “What changed? It was working yesterday.” In most organizations, there are multiple groups who can update a system: central IT, security, business applications, business logic developers; and often outsourced entities which manage portions of the infrastructure. The tools used to make changes by these organizations are frequently different.

S3 Control provides real-time visibility into all changes made on target systems including changes made to files (including the Windows registry), network configurations and databases. Rich information is made available for each change including where the change was made (which server/servers), when it was made (time), which user made the change, how (Change agent) the change was made and what (content inside the file) changed and whether the change was approved (Request for Change).

The rich change information captured is further leveraged through S3 Control's Change Search and Enterprise Compliance Dashboard & Reporting.

Change Search provides powerful ad-hoc querying capabilities for immediate problem investigation for quick access to a rich set of forensic information (what was changed, when, by whom and how). Because the data provided is captured in real-time, and not based on snapshots, it is able to catch even changes which are quickly reversed. The data is available even when the server being tracked is offline and is very valuable for troubleshooting unplanned outages.

Enterprise Compliance Dashboard and Reporting provides a comprehensive view of the compliance state of the infrastructure, changes across different locations, business roles and groups. Alerts can also be configured based on specified triggers.

For more information on how S3 Control can help you and your organization get visibility into change, please read our Change Visibility Datasheet.