File share auditing in action

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File share auditing in action

The following are some examples of how customers have used LANGuardian to address file share issues on their networks:

• After a leak of sensitive information about an upcoming product, an engineering manager in a design company requested a list of all users who had accessed the product specfication document in the previous month. The IT department used LANGuardian to create a report, from which the manager was able to determine that the specification had been read by a former team member whose access to the file share had not been removed.
• Following a request by a district office for a costly WAN link upgrade to address complaints by remote users about network performance, the network manager in a local authority used LANGuardian to generate a report of the users at that location who were consuming the most bandwidth. By drilling down through the report, he was able to determine that some users were repeatedly opening and saving large documents from a file share. The problem was solved by educating the users to download their documents, work on them locally, and save them back to the file share at the end of the day.
• As part of a data protection audit in the Human Resources department, a manager asked for a report that identified all users who had accessed the HR shared folder during the past year. The report showed that no unauthorised users had accessed the folder, enabling the department to demonstrate compliance with the company's data protection policy.
• A network manager in a university became concerned that users on the network might have been sharing music files on the university network, infringing copyright and exposing the university to the threat of litigation. By generating a report by file name and using wildcards for common audio file formats such as MP3, WMA and AAC, the network manager was able to identify a number of file shares containing music files and to ask the owners to remove the files from the network.
• An IT manager happened to notice from the LANGuardian dashboard that a specific IP address was consuming a lot of bandwidth. On drilling down through the reports to find the user involved and the file shares being accessed, it emerged that the user was leaving the company on that day. Further investigation revealed the user was downloading confidential financial and marketing material to copy onto a memory stick and take with her when she left.

These are just some of the ways you can use LANGuardian to see what is happening on your Windows infrastructure. Why not try it for yourself on our online demo system or download a 30-day free trial to use on your own network.

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