EventLog Analyzer

The Health Insurance Portability And Accountability (HIPAA) regulation impacts those in healthcare that exchange patient information electronically. HIPAA regulations were established to protect the integrity and security of health information, including protecting against unauthorized use or disclosure of the information. HIPAA states that a security management process must exist in order to protect against "attempted or successful unauthorized access, use, disclosure, modification, or interference with system operations". In other words being able to monitor, report and alert on attempted or successful access to systems and applications that contain sensitive patient information.

EventLog Analyzer meets the most challenging HIPAA Security Standards for monitoring and auditing system activity. With EventLog Analyzer, you can easily monitor your network systems for any insider activity. HIPAA regulations mandate analysis of all logs, including OS and application logs.

The types of reports that EventLog Analyzer provides for HIPAA Audits are as follows:

• User Logon report:
  HIPAA requirements (164.308 (a)(5) - log-in/log-out monitoring) clearly state that user accesses to the system be recorded and monitored for possible abuse. Remember, this intent is not just to catch hackers but also to document the accesses to medical details by legitimate users. In most cases, the very fact that the access is recorded is deterrent enough for malicious activity, much like the presence of a surveillance camera in a parking lot.
• User Logoff report:
  HIPAA requirements clearly state that user accesses to the system be recorded and monitored for possible abuse. Remember, this intent is not just to catch hackers but also to document the accesses to medical details by legitimate users. In most cases, the very fact that the access is recorded is deterrent enough for malicious activity, much like the presence of a surveillance camera in a parking lot.
• Logon Failure report:
  The security logon feature includes logging all unsuccessful login attempts. The user name, date and time are included in this report.
• Audit Logs Access report:
  HIPAA requirements (164.308 (a)(3) - review and audit access logs) calls for procedures to regularly review records of information system activity such as audit logs.
• Object Access report:
  Identify when a given object (File, Directory, etc.) is accessed, the type of access (e.g. read, write, delete) and whether or not access was successful/failed, and who performed the action.
• System Events report:
  Identifies local system processes such as system startup and shutdown and changes to the system time or audit log.
• Host Session Status report:
  Indicates that someone reconnected to a disconnected terminal server session. (This is only generated on a machine with terminal services running).
• Successful User Account Validation report:
  Identifies successful user account logon events, which are generated when a domain user account is authenticated on a domain controller.
• UnSuccessful User Account Validation report:
  Identifies unsuccessful user account logon events, which are generated when a domain user account is authenticated on a domain controller.
• Security Log Archiving Utility:
  Periodically, the system administrator will be able to back up encrypted copies of the log data and restart the logs.