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StealthAUDIT SAnitzer Suite |
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Product Function and Scope
The SAnitizer Product Suite is an extension of the StealthAUDIT Core application dedicated to the Assessment, Security, Consolidation, and Maintenance of collaborative data repositories and application objects within the Microsoft Infrastructure space. From AD Users, Computers, Exchange Public Folders, to Shared File Systems and everything in between, SAnitizer provides out-of-the- box solutions to identify and remediate stale content and resources, verify and enforce entitlement and true ownership, and pinpoint and document critical changes occurring throughout multiple areas of your Microsoft Infrastructure as well as UNIX, Linux, and NetApp appliances; all with a single solution.
Data Collection and Architecture
Originally encompassed within the StealthAUDIT application itself, SAnitizer was designed to incorporate key components and features needed for organizational projects and initiatives to assess and clean up growing data repositories.
Maintaining a lightweight, agent-less architecture ensures minimal impact to your infrastructure even on intensive data scans. SAnitizer also leverages standard and open source APIs and protocols to gather the required information in addition to sophisticated data analysis capabilities to convert data into knowledge.
SAnitizer utilizes a series of snap-in Data Collectors in combination with one another to gather and correlate information from multiple data sources. This form of architecture and the product’s unencumbered visibility throughout the entire Operating System, Exchange, and Active Directory make SAnitizer the ideal solution for data consolidation and governance.
The architecture of SAnitizer is displayed below:
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Management Console – SAnitizer is a Windows based UI application (currently embedded in the Core engine – see above) that permits the intuitive administration of the product and visualization of the system configuration and output results.
Database – This is a SQL Server based database that can reside on the same or different machine from the StealthAUDIT Console application.
Data Collectors (DCs) – DC’s are dynamically loaded libraries that can be “plugged in” to the SAnitizer installation to expand its functionality for additional data collection techniques. Data Collectors are implemented with graphical configuration interfaces that use inherent knowledge of the sources for these system properties coupled with “selection by example” techniques and logical element groupings. This implementation empowers administrators to compose and run queries in minutes that would take hours or days to script effectively.
Job – SAnitizer Jobs are executable entities that contain all configuration elements required to collect, filter, transform, and store result data and generate reports against that data. This encapsulation provides for easy packaging and distribution of configured sets of functionality.
Core Engine – This is the primary StealthAUDIT program. It can be run in a graphical or non-graphical mode to collect data, invoke actions and analysis processes, and generate reports. This flexibility permits it to be run either interactively or on a scheduled basis.
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Implementation and Scaling
SAnitizer can typically be implemented in hours as a contrast to comparable agent-based products that can take weeks and in some cases months to deploy. Large enterprises can scale up by deploying multiple collection consoles with the option to channel all results to a single central database.
Product Benefits
For more information regarding SAnitizer for Public Folders, File Systems, Active Directory, and Exchange, visit our SOLUTIONS page.
The use of the SAnitizer Product Suite will provide immediate benefits in the following areas and beyond:
- Obtain summarized views of unstructured data content to establish baselines for success.
- Tighten security through properly provisioned permissions and access to organizational data, greatly reducing the risk of data breach.
- Determine who is making changes to files and folders.
- Instantly identify stale content that can be moved, archived, or deleted to reclaim storage space.
- Reduce backup times and increase backup successes by consolidating content and removing unneeded objects, folders, files, and more.
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