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The easiest, yet most comprehensive file server auditing software for tracking changes and data access, monitoring interactions with data and detecting threats.

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File Server Auditing Tool

Lepide File Server Auditing software enables you to audit when files and folders are created, accessed, modified, moved, renamed, copied or deleted. We also help organizations track and compare permissions across their file servers. Our File auditing software addresses the challenges of the rise of the insider-threat and the data reporting requirements associated with common regulatory compliance mandates. We give IT teams the power to see more, faster.

Data Classification Data Classification

Get visibility over the content of your sensitive files. It automatically scans and classifies data related to PII, PHI and other regulated data.

File Access Auditing File Access Auditing

Get information on both successful and failed read attempts across your Windows File Servers.

Audit File Copy Events Audit File Copy Events

Monitor when your users are copying your files to help maintain security and integrity of data.

Analyze NTFS permission Analyze NTFS permissions

Analyze NTFS permissions applied to shared files and folders to spot excessive permissions or permission sprawl.

Alerting and Reporting Alerting and Reporting

Real time alerts, threshold alerts and pre-defined reports for all security and compliance needs.

Data Access Governance Data Access Governance

Determine who has access to which files and folders to help spot over-privileged users and at-risk data.

File Share Auditing File Share Auditing

Track changes to your shared files and folders with granular who, what, when and where information.

Data Subject Access Requests Data Subject Access Requests

Use eDiscovery to locate PII in files so that you can easily and quickly respond to DSARs.

Track Stale Data Track Stale Data

Quickly see all the stale data that you have in your Windows File Server for faster archiving and management.

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What Makes Our File Server Auditing Software Different?

The Lepide File Server audit tool enables you to easily audit, monitor and alert on everything that is happening to your File Server, all from a single platform. Get the critical information you need in a way that’s readable, understandable and actionable.

Speed up your data classification efforts
Persistent discovery and data classification of files in File Server allows you to see what sensitive data you have and where data is located. With the widest range of file types for data classification, you can scan, tag, categorize and score your data to ensure you are compliant with industry standards.
Discover and classify sensitive date
Spot anomalies in user behavior

Analyze user behavior and spot anomalies in user interactions with data, including single point anomalies, to speed up threat response. Real time alerts, threshold alerts and pre-defined reports for all your file server security and compliance requirements. Unlike other file server auditing tools, we allow you to audit file copy events to better understand when your users are copying files with sensitive data.

File Server auditing
Govern access and implement zero trust

Our combination of data classification and permissions analysis software enables you to determine who has access to files that contain sensitive data and see what changes they are making to them. Our file server auditing solution can identify users with excessive permissions and enables you to reverse unwanted file server permission changes to implement a zero trust policy.

Data Access Governance
Easily meet compliance requirements

The Lepide file server auditing software addresses the ever-increasing demand to prove to auditors that adequate steps are being taken to ensure data is being responsibly monitored. It provides a wide range of detailed reports that directly map to the common requirements of compliance standards ; such as PCI, SOX, HIPAA, GLBA, FISMA, CCPA and GDPR.

Compliance auditing
Audit file server changes with an intuitive dashboard

Our graphical dashboard will enable you to easily track changes occurring across the whole of your File Server environment. It provides you with an easy-to-understand overview of the total number of changes made to File Server; broken down per administrator, source and trend. This should help you not only understand the causes of a single change, but help you spot overall anomalies in events. The performance of your File Server is also tracked and reported on to help you decrease downtime. The LiveFeed shows you all File Server changes made as they are happening so that you can react to them quicker.

Audit File Server changes
Detect and react to threats in real time

Our File Server Auditing software lets you prepare a quick Incident Response by allowing you to run your own custom script with the alerting of selected critical changes. You can perform automated tasks defined in your script; including disable a user account, delete a user account, revoke the permission granted to a user or shut down a computer. For an example, you can set the solution to delete a user who has deleted multiple files. Yes, you can set to get notifications for both critical changes and script execution.

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What We Audit in File Server

Our File Server auditing software helps organizations overcome the limitations of native auditing, by aggregating event log data into “single-pane” reports. Get all the information you end, including “who, what, when and where” all in one report. Below is a non-exhaustive list of what our File Server auditing tool can do.

Granular audit reports for File Server changes

Our File Server auditing tool displays a single log for a single change that gives you the answers to the “who, what, when and where” auditing questions. This data is collected and presented through predefined audit reports aimed at helping you solve all manner of security, compliance and IT operations challenges. Every change made is displayed with before and after values to provide you with helpful context. You can customize these reports with auditing functions and create dedicated reports to track a specific file, folder, user or operation.

File auditing reports
Audit NetApp Filer changes

Through our software integration with the Fpolicy framework and the assigned file policy, we’re able to capture events to audit and monitor file and folder activity on your NetApp through CIFS. We treat NetApp Filers the same as we would any traditional Windows File Server; auditing all changes to files and folders, share, permissions, and more.

NetApp Filer auditing
Track files and folders created, modified and more

Our file auditing tool is a simple way of keeping track of all changes as they happen. The predefined audit reports contain details regarding all attempts of file or folder creation, deletion, copy, move, rename, and other modifications. We also detail the time, drive, folder, file name, process and event. You can track what has happened to a file or folder since its creation, see who has accessed or modified it, and ultimately who has deleted it.

Audit File Server activities
Analyze the current effective permissions of shared files/folders

Current Permission analysis of file servers shows the effective permissions applied on the Shared Folders. Our software compares the applied NTFS with the Share Permissions to analyze the currently effective permission on a selected file or folder. It also displays the scope of the applied permission by showing the folder level where permission inheritance gets broken and whether the effective permission is direct, indirect or inherited. Reports can be filtered, sorted, saved and investigated for all 13 possible permissions.

NTFS permissions analysis
Analyze Historical Permission changes of your files/folders

Our File Server auditing software analyzes Historical File Server permissions for Windows File System. You can view the list of all historical permissions for a selected file and folder. The administrator can also compare the permissions for the selected file or folder between two specified time intervals. You can save separate reports for both "Permission History" and "Compare Permission" in PDF, MHT or CSV formats on the disk. It also displays the scope of the permission changes.

Audit permissions changes
We let you use wildcards to audit potentially sensitive data

Our intelligent filters let you use “*” (asterisk) and “?” (question mark) to drill-down the audit reports and focus on the changes made to files and folders containing these characters in names, paths, usernames or other audit details. A common use case may be to search for all files where the filename contains the word ‘confidential’. You can then easily save this search in a PDF, CSV or MHT file. You can also use these wildcards to send the real-time alerts for changes made to for sensitive data.

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We use Lepide for the security of our Azure and On-prem environment, its real time alert system is awesome!

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Our Success Stories

Western Connecticut Health Network

Lepide is straightforward to use and effective right off the bat. Plus, the level of patience, attentiveness and technical knowhow is far beyond most support and sales teams I’ve seen before.

Ratings Drayke Jackson Security Engineer Drayke Jackson
Edinburgh Napier University

We chose Lepide as they were able to offer us threat detection and response, and a way of separating out reporting duties to a web console – all from one platform.

Ratings Kevin Gallagher Senior Systems Administrator Kevin Gallagher
City of
Danville

Lepide is a perfect fit for our IT Security and Compliance requirements. It helps us cut out a lot of wasted time and money and now we know we can be compliant with industry standards.

Ratings Agnel Dsilva Information Technology Administrator Agnel Dsilva

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FAQs
At Lepide, we know that organizations often store vast amounts of sensitive data on their file servers, and IT teams need to know when users are accessing this data. Lepide’s File Server auditing tool audits all file read events across multiple file servers and can produce detailed file access audit reports with the click of a button. On these reports, you’ll be able to see detailed file server audit information, including who tried to read the file, what the file contained, when and where and whether the attempt was successful.
Native file server auditing software leaves a lot to be desired. No one has the time or the inclination to delve through thousands of file sever event logs and format them into a readable report. Doing this once would be a challenge, let alone on a regular basis. Lepide File Server auditing tool enables you automate your file activity monitoring efforts through pre-defined reports, real time alerts and behavioral analysis.
Absolutely. Changes to file server permissions can put your sensitive data at risk through unauthorized access or unwanted changes being made. Therefore, being able to effectively audit file server permission changes is critical. Lepide file server auditing tool provides real time alerts and pre-defined reports for all permission changes, as well as a view of the current and historical state of file server permissions.
File server auditing software gives you the visibility you need to determine whether your sensitive data is secure or whether you are open to security threats. The critical things you need to establish are: where is my sensitive data stored? Why is data sensitive? Who has access to data? What are users doing with data? Knowing the answers to these key file server auditing questions will enable you to better determine the state of your file server security.
There are many ways that file server auditing will help you to keep your sensitive data secure from threats. The Lepide File Server auditing software enables you to spot when users become threats through advanced user behavior analytics, threshold alerting and anomaly spotting. We have also included pre-defined threat model templates for a number of known file server security vulnerabilities, such as ransomware, insider threats, compromised users, privilege abuse and more.
We have hundreds of pre-defined audit reports for file server included in the Lepide file server auditing software, including but not limited to; all modifications, file copies, read successful, read failed, file and folder created, file and folder created failed, file and folder deleted, file and folder renamed, file and folder moved, permissions reports and more. Simplify and enhance your file server auditing with our pre-defined file server audit reports.
In our file sever auditing software, there is an in-built data classification engine with pre-defined rules and templates that you can enable right out of the box. During data classification, if a recognized pattern is found in the file, Lepide tags and classifies the data. The file will then be indexed for reporting and searching. Our data classification can be run periodically across all data in file server, or continually as new data is created in file server.