ManageEngine, the real-time IT management company, today announced that TRC Companies, Inc. Using the syslog and event log reporting and event log management tool, EventLog Analyzer, to successfully meet Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance audit requirements. Using EventLog Analyzer, the national engineering services, consulting, and construction management firm is now able to collect, retain and review terabytes of audit trail log data generated by its IT infrastructure to support IT process controls of SOX Section 404.
“We needed a solution that could handle system logs from a variety of hardware and handle huge volumes of real-time logs,” said Devank Kumar, manager, enterprise systems and network security at TRC. “We chose ManageEngine event log management over other solutions because it was the only one that provided us with pre-defined report templates for SOX, which helps us meet our audit requirements.”
EventLog Analyzer at TRC
TRC serves a broad range of clients in government and industry, implementing complex projects from initial concept to operations. The company has 2,400+ employees spread over 70 offices and has two data centers in Arizona and New Jersey to handle the network load. Their environment consists of 40 to 50 domain controllers, 400+ Web servers, several Cisco devices (e.g., irewalls, IPS, switches, routers), ERP, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SharePoint, virtual machines, thousands of desktops (Windows, Linux), SAN storage and other business critical hardware.
By selecting EventLog Analyzer, it achieved a number of key results, including:
- Rapid deployment – Completed in under an hour and log collection was almost instantaneous.
- Immediate reporting – The irst set of reports was available to system engineers almost immediately.
- Out-of-the-box SOX reports – Pre-built SOX compliance reports met auditors’ stringent requirements.
- User-friendly UI – Network operations team was able to effortlessly generate their own reports without any technical assistance.
- SMS and email alert notiications – Operations team can immediately respond to security threats.