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Laserfiche Audit Trail

Auditing and Security Controls

Laserfiche Audit Trail software tracks repository activity and provides a separate, Web-based interface for running detailed reports on the tracked information, for risk mitigation and regulatory compliance.

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Laserfiche Audit Trail's ability to monitor, record, and report on system activity makes the product a key component of the Laserfiche enterprise content management suite. Not only do organizations need to manage documents and other unstructured information, but they also have to mitigate content-related risks by tracking exactly how your organization uses it. Audit Trail, with the Laserfiche content repository, is the tool organizations need to meet evolving compliance and e-discovery requirements.

Risk Assessment For Your Business Content

Laserfiche Audit Trail enables you to regularly review user activity, assess the effectiveness of internal control mechanisms, review productivity, and demonstrate regulatory compliance. Access to this information is critical for compliance purposes: organizations need to know how content is preserved and fully understand the legal implications of its use. The risk context of your enterprise content must be balanced with the needs and resources of IT and the rest of the business.

Flexible Activity Tracking and Reporting

Three different editions of Audit Trail allow you to monitor a wide variety of events in the Laserfiche repository, either repository-wide or on a per-user or –group basis. Types of auditable events range from simple repository login and logout, to unsuccessful attempts to perform actions, to requiring reasons for printing, e-mailing, or exporting documents. Once audit data has been collected, authorized Audit Trail users can access a Web-based reporting tool to create summaries of all actions taken on a particular document or record. Reports can be easily filtered, sorted, and graphed to identify trends and isolate behavior patterns, further helping expedite audits.

Basic Functionality

Reporter

  • Filter, sort, and graph audited data via Web-based Audit Trail page.
  • Save reports for later retrieval or sharing with others.
  • Customize grid and chart view of audited data.

System Configuration

  • Configure tracking of user actions in the Laserfiche Administration Console.
  • Set up reporting via the Laserfiche Audit Trail Configuration Web page using a wizard-based configuration.
  • Store raw data in log files and load specific sets of information into a database that’s separate from your repository database.

Security

  • Watermark content exported or printed from your repository to maintain proof of origin or ownership.
  • Separate permissions required to access Laserfiche repository and Audit Trail reporting.
  • Restrict access to Configuration Page to local administrator on the computer hosting Laserfiche Audit Trail Reporting.

Editions

Starter Edition

  • Geared towards basic regulatory compliance for tracking the modification of data stored in the repository.

Standard Edition

  • Includes all features of the Starter edition, has the ability to log more events, provides more flexibility in determining how events are logged, and logs unsuccessful attempts to perform an action.

Advanced Edition

  • Includes all features of the Standard edition, has the ability to log security changes and searches performed in a repository, tracks why users performed certain actions, and enables you to configure watermarks.

Environment

Operating Systems

  • Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 2008.

Web Server

  • Internet Information Services (IIS).

Web Browser

  • Internet Explorer 7 or 8, and Firefox 2 or 3.

Databases

  • Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express, Oracle 10g, Oracle 11g.

Authentication

  • Windows Authentication.
Run reports using the Web-based Audit Trail Reporting page. Run reports using the Web-based Audit Trail Reporting page.  View Audit Trail report data as a chart. View Audit Trail report data as a chart.  Configure Audit Trail to run reports on the Audit Trail Configuration Web page. Configure Audit Trail to run reports on the Audit Trail Configuration Web page.

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Related Resources

Audit Trail 8.1 (Web Reporter) Language Pack Released
Laserfiche is pleased to announce the release of Audit Trail 8.1 (Web Reporter) Language Pack, which provides the Laserfiche Audit Trail 8.1 or later versions with UI in Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Spanish, French, Portuguese (Brazil), and Vietnamese.

Laserfiche 8.1.1 Released
Laserfiche is pleased to announce the release of Laserfiche 8.1.1, which includes the Laserfiche Server, Client, Scanning, Snapshot, PhotoDocs, Audit Trail, and the Migration Utility. Laserfiche 8.1.1 is a maintenance release, offering extensive bug fixes as well as performance enhancements. Laserfiche 8.1.1 is also fully compatible with the Rio 8.1 License manager and Plus 8.1.

Audit Trail Editions
This chart outlines the differences between the three editions of Audit Trail: Starter, Standard, and Advanced.

Laserfiche Audit Trail 8 Guided Help - Quick Start (Flash 9 Required)
This video serves as an interactive introduction to Audit Trail 8. It summarizes the software's new architecture, performance improvements, web interface and more. To watch the video, click the link above. The video will open in your browser and start playing within 30 seconds on most high-speed connections. Flash 9 or higher is required.

Webinars

Have questions? Get answers in our document management Webinars. We present over 500 Webinars each year on a variety of document management topics.

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Regional Training

All Regional Training events, with the exception of the User Workshop, are held from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM daily. Registration and continental breakfast is available from 8:30AM to 9:00AM. Lunch is from 12:00PM to 1:00PM.

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