Compliance & Audit PreparationPurpose
1.2. Streamline collection, categorization, storage, and retention automation workflows for logs, ensuring robust data integrity, non-repudiation, and access control.
1.3. Enable efficient automation of archiving policies, legal hold, defensible deletion, and disaster recovery with end-to-end traceability and auditability.
1.4. Automate enforcement of immutable storage rules across heterogeneous log data sources, platforms, and hybrid cloud or on-premise environments.
Trigger Conditions
2.2. Scheduled automation (e.g., hourly, daily, or upon reaching log volume thresholds).
2.3. Security incident detection or compliance request triggers.
2.4. End-of-period financial or audit closing events automatically launch archiving workflows.
Platform Variants
• Feature/Setting: Enable S3 Object Lock with Compliance Mode; automate PutObject API call with retention period.
3.2. Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
• Feature/Setting: Automate Immutability Policy configuration using BlobServiceProperties API.
3.3. Google Cloud Storage
• Feature/Setting: Automate Bucket Lock API to enable WORM (Write Once Read Many) policy.
3.4. IBM Cloud Object Storage
• Feature/Setting: Automate retention policy enforcement via SDK or REST API, with audit log automation.
3.5. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP
• Feature/Setting: Automate Snapshot policies and SnapLock compliance configuration using NetApp API.
3.6. Cohesity DataPlatform
• Feature/Setting: Automate archive tasks and WORM policies via Cohesity REST API.
3.7. Veeam Backup & Replication
• Feature/Setting: Automate log archiving jobs using Veeam API and Scale-out Backup Repository with Immutability.
3.8. Rubrik
• Feature/Setting: Automate legal hold and immutable archive configuration via Rubrik Security Cloud API.
3.9. Google Vault
• Feature/Setting: Automate retention and export policies with Vault API for log evidence automation.
3.10. Veritas Enterprise Vault
• Feature/Setting: Automate archive and retention rule creation, scheduling policies using PowerShell or Vault API.
3.11. Proofpoint
• Feature/Setting: Automate archive rule and retention policy configuration using Proofpoint API.
3.12. Barracuda Message Archiver
• Feature/Setting: Automate journaling and immutability rule enforcement via Barracuda REST API.
3.13. OpenText InfoArchive
• Feature/Setting: Automate ingestion and storage policy assignment using RESTful InfoArchive API.
3.14. Dell EMC Data Domain
• Feature/Setting: Automate Retention Lock policy management via Data Domain REST API.
3.15. Arcserve UDP
• Feature/Setting: Automate archive planning, retention, and immutable copy using Arcserve Automation APIs.
3.16. Qumulo
• Feature/Setting: Automate snapshot-based log archiving and WORM configuration using Qumulo REST API.
3.17. Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage
• Feature/Setting: Automate bucket immutability and log archival using Wasabi API with object lock.
3.18. Iron Mountain InSight
• Feature/Setting: Automate archive transfer and WORM policy using InSight API for digital evidence.
3.19. Smarsh
• Feature/Setting: Automate cloud and voice data archiving, retention policy setting using Smarsh REST API.
3.20. Zerto
• Feature/Setting: Automate log backup to immutable cloud repositories via Zerto API.
Benefits
4.2. An automated archiving workflow minimizes manual intervention, reducing errors and increasing operational efficiency.
4.3. Automating legal hold and audit preparation enables faster and verifiable response to compliance reviews or litigation.
4.4. Immutable automation provides robust protection against tampering, ransomware, and data loss.
4.5. Enhances audit trails and chain-of-custody documentation with automated archiving systems.
4.6. Automator-driven configuration ensures standardization, scalability, and auditability across all log sources and storage zones.
4.7. Automatedly supports defensible deletion for end-of-life logs under legal and operational policies.