File Integrity Monitoring

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File integrity monitoring is critical for security and configuration compliance initiatives, and is a requirement for PCI compliance. nCircle File Integrity Monitor™ provides an agentless file integrity  auditing solution that gives you the ability to monitor an asset’s details all the way down to the file level without requiring software agents on the monitored system. nCircle’s file integrity monitoring solution discovers significant file integrity detail, such as:

Agentless File Integrity Monitoring – with DynAgent Technology

nCircle’s DynAgent, patent-pending agentless technology built in to nCircle File Integrity Monitor and nCircle Configuration Compliance Manager, enables organizations to audit every system across their entire global network – comprehensively, cost-effectively, and without installing agents on each monitored endpoint. nCircle solutions combine credentialed access with transitory DynAgents to fully assess hosts, delivering all the power of an agent, with none of the management overhead and complexity. For more information, download our paper on agent-based vs agentless technology.
  • File size
  • Version
  • When it was created
  • When it was modified
  • The login name of any user who modifies the file
  • Its attributes (e.g., Read-Only, Hidden, System, etc.)

As an extra safeguard against file tampering, the solution also monitors file checksums – MD5 or SHA-1 on Windows-based systems and MD5 or any user-defined hash algorithm on Unix-based systems - providing cryptography-based monitoring for file changes.

How it Works

Files are scanned initially to create a baseline. Then, each time the file is scanned again, according to any period of time you wish to specify, the current configuration is compared against the original. Any changes detected to the file are logged and included in reports.

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nCircle file integrity monitoring is available as a standalone solution – File Integrity Monitor – or as part of nCircle Configuration Compliance Manager.