FileSure Technology

ByStorm designed FileSure to make it succeed for you. Our fundamental principles are power, flexibility, and ease of operation. Designed for Windows.

No External database technology

It seems like every new product wants you to manage a new database. Well, not us. Our audit logs are simple files in the file system, So you don't need a new backup system, a new security model, or any new training.

Here's what it means for you:

Feature	Description
Performance	By optimizing for high insert and low access rates we achieve significantly better performance than an external database. For you, it means events aren't lost even under heavy load.
Storage Savings	Our compact data format is extremely efficient. FileSure’s data store is massively compressed getting about 5 million records per GB, so it’s unlikely that you will ever need to purge or restore the data store.
Easy backup	Audit data is simple files in the file system. Your current file-based backups will handle FileSure data perfectly.
Easy archival	Each system's data is stored in a separate file, and we start a new file each month. You can offload old data simply just by removing a file while having the ability to restore at any time - without any need to stop FileSure and miss important events! Try to do that with a external database!
Security	You simply don't have to worry about some other user (or DBA!) modifying your audit data with an accidental query. There's no additional security model to learn, establish, or audit. FileSure even includes reports so you can see what changes were made to FileSure itself! FileSure Data stores are not only tightly compressed, but also encrypted with powerful 64 bit BlowFish Encryption protecting it from people wishing hide what they are doing.

Patent pending Venn Technology

Our patent pending “Venn Technology” operates similarly to real-time virus scanners, intercepting every file operation and applying heuristics to determine whether or not the operation should be audited.

Doesn’t use Windows Auditing

Using “wildcard” based rules allows FileSure to solve the largest problem with native Windows file auditing - auditing noise. In other words, there is no longer a need to sift through tens of thousands of meaningless audit log entries just trying to find the ones that you care about.

Continuous Monitoring - No Snapshots

FileSure provides continuous monitoring and doesn’t suffer the shortcomings of snapshot based auditing tools. Snapshot based tools take pictures at different times and compare them to see what is different. Audit specific areas are:

• FileSure intercepts every file access and therefore misses nothing; snapshot tools will miss all but the last change between snapshots.
• FileSure records WHO performed the file operation. Snapshot tools can NOT gather WHO accessed or changed a file.
• FileSure records who READS a file. Snapshot tools can’t gather this information. Tracking data read access is a key piece of information for compliance with many regulatory requirements.

Threshold Alerting

FileSure delivers alerts when user-defined thresholds are exceeded. Other products claim to have alerting by sending you an automatic report every few minutes - this isn’t alerting but it does fill up your inbox. FileSure only sends alerts when something noteworthy happens like someone copying a lot of files.

Central and Distributed Configuration

In a multi-server environment, you can set FileSure up in with individual server rules or multi-server rules, or a combination. Define a "master" server and apply rules to selected “slave” servers, or configure standalone server rules. It's your choice!