Data Activity Auditing for SOX: An Auditor's Perspective

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From a database administrator’s viewpoint, SOX-related monitoring requirements are quite broad, but they can be distilled under five key headings:

• Monitoring database access by privileged users: The DBA's and system administrators
• Monitoring changes in database privileges
• Monitoring failed database login attempts
• Monitoring schema changes to ensure data integrity
• Monitoring direct data access to database tables

Database managers, auditors, and security officers bear the burden of satisfying regulatory and internal audit demands for SOX compliance. Numerous trouble spots persist, in addition to privileged user monitoring, including consistent monitoring across all databases and inadequate database logs, resulting in non-compliance.

Many enterprises are facing the SOX compliance challenge of monitoring all of the data activity of their most privileged users. This paper highlights several of these challenges and how they can be addressed by a comprehensive database auditing solution.

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