When Novell announced it would be shipping a limited edition of Blue Lance's LTAuditor with NetWare 6.5 a few eyebrows shot up since NetWare supposedly already has built-in auditing capabilities (Auditcon for NetWare 5 and below, Novell Advanced Auditing Services for NetWare 6). The announcement also seems to have re-energized Blue Lance, the venerable NetWare services company from Houston, which is almost 20 years old (LTA has been around since 1990).
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LTA is an efficient, relentless tool for creating audit trails of as much or as little of your network's activity as you would like. It helps you find the problems and also identify the culprits when anomalies or improprieties take place. But auditing tools are often described as after the fact security devices - the audit log will tell you that the horse seems to have disappeared and, by the way, the barn door was left unlocked and open.
Wouldn't it be even better to know about the barn door before the horse went walkabout?
Blue Lance CEO Umesh Verma thought so and when a company leader muses about a potential capability the whole firm falls into line very quickly. So LTA has now been extended and enhanced to become "LT Auditor+Assessment for NetWare."
LTA+A, in addition to handling all the traditional auditing functions, also scans Novell's eDirectory and the NetWare file system for specific security policy violations, identifying vulnerabilities and risks, automatically collects specified audit data, and prepares reports quickly in easy to read formats so that you can take quick, efficient corrective action.
LTA+A works in five major areas (users, groups, containers, volumes and files) to identify vulnerabilities by collecting information about:
* User objects such as security equivalents, password configurations, logon information, trustee assignments.
* Group objects such as group members, trustee assignments, security equivalences.
* Containers, including intruder detection settings, trustee assignments, objects available in the container.
* NetWare volumes such as available space, type of volume, and more.
* File information such as owner, size, last modified date, attributes, etc.
Dave Kearns is a writer and consultant in Silicon Valley. He's written a number of books including the (sadly) now out of print "Peter Norton's Complete Guide to Networks." His musings can be found at Virtual Quill.
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