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Administration

The Access Analyzer application is the power behind the solutions. It has the automation, management, and integration building blocks that ensure the solutions’ advanced data collection and analysis deliver meaningful results to an organization’s infrastructure and other technologies. Users manage and control access to unstructured and structured data, systems, and critical applications with the application.

Data Collectors Overview​

Access Analyzer leverages a wide variety of APIs and protocols to connect to and communicate with the systems and applications in an organization’s environment. From MAPI to PowerShell, WMI, LDAP, CIFS, and more. It uses the best, most appropriate data collection methodology for every data collection task. The majority of Access Analyzer data comes from agentless scans and log collection. This enables remote collection of thousands of data points across dozens of system and application types.

Though Access Analyzer does use applets and kernel-level drivers for certain data collection requirements, e.g. real-time file level activity monitoring, these agent-based advanced data collection methods allow the kind of deep rich information, which can usually be obtained only by substantial manual effort.

See the Data Collectors topic for additional information.

Analysis Modules Overview​

Access Analyzer employs a series of powerful, yet easy-to-use Analysis Modules which provide end-users with the ability to perform very simple and sophisticated data analysis routines with ease:

  • Correlation – Easily correlate data from multiple datasets to create meaningful views
  • Policy – Create rules and policies which automatically categorize your data output, i.e. Severity, Classifications, etc.
  • Change – Turn on change detection to see exactly what has changed between time periods
  • Trend – See what is happening over time and when thresholds will be met
  • Conformance – Create a baseline or designate a “golden” image to see what deviates from the organization’s desired standards
  • Notification – Get alerts based upon any condition within any dataset, with control over how and how often alerts are generated

See the Analysis Modules topic for additional information.

Action Modules Overview​

The Access Analyzer Action Module framework enables administrators to make bulk changes across various system and application resources such as File Systems, Exchange Mailboxes, Public Folders, Distribution Lists, SharePoint sites, and Windows Registry. The Mail and Survey Action Modules work in conjunction with other Action Modules and datasets to instantiate workflows involving end-users such as data custodians to obtain answers and verifications.

See the Action Modules topic for additional information.

Reporting Overview​

The Access Analyzer custom report authoring engine, dashboards, and open data views provide information to multiple audiences within an organization, both technical and non-technical. Its reporting capabilities include a distribution and viewing mechanism allowing reports to be automatically distributed via email or posted to one or more network locations and/or websites for simple, secure, and on-demand access to information. The Access Analyzer Report Index provides access to published Access Analyzer reports through a web-based console, granting access to reports without requiring access to the Access Analyzer Console. It is accessed through the Stealthbits Web Console, which is created during the installation of Access Analyzer. The Web Console can also provide access to the Access Information Center, and other Stealthbits products.

See the Reporting topic for additional information.