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Netwrix Auditor Enables The Football Pools to Make Light Work of Governance
November 2016 by Marc Jacob
Netwrix Corporation, the first vendor to introduce a visibility and governance platform for hybrid cloud security, announced today that The Football Pools has saved significant time preparing for the U.K. Gambling Commission audit checks based on ISO/IEC 27001 requirements.
The Football Pools is the oldest football gaming business in the world. It provides the chance to win life-changing amounts of money by predicting the outcome of football games in a pool format. The Football Pools has paid out over £3.2 billion to winners during its 91-year history.
The Football Pools needed to prove to auditors that all changes and access to SQL databases made by a remote team of database administrators (DBAs) are monitored according to the requirements of the U.K. Gambling Commission. Failure to meet those requirements could lead to heavy fines or even revocation of the company’s license.
The Football Pools selected Netwrix Auditor for SQL Server to gain visibility into what’s going on across its SQL databases. As a result, the company was able to:
• Prove compliance with ISO/IEC 27001. The solution provides the company with out-of-the-box reports aligned with ISO/IEC 27001 requirements for its annual audits, including all the necessary details about actions related to SQL Server permissions.
• Spend less time and effort to pass audit checks. With Netwrix Auditor, IT infrastructure manager Paul Edwards now spends just one hour per week to get the necessary reports and check on activity across critical servers — saving him seven hours of work each week.
• Reduce the risk of data loss and downtime. Using the actionable intelligence Netwrix Auditor provides about actions related to databases and server configurations, Edwards can easily detect and remediate unauthorized activities that could result in data compromise or system outage.
• Secure every remote DBA session. Video recording ability of remote sessions gives the company complete visibility into activity across its SQL servers, simplifies investigations of mistakes that could affect database availability and data security, and increases DBAs’ personal accountability for the work they perform.
Netwrix Auditor is a visibility and governance platform that enables control over changes, configurations and access in hybrid cloud IT environments to protect data regardless of its location. The platform provides security analytics to detect anomalies in user behavior and investigate threat patterns before a data breach occurs.
