Company: NetWrix Corporation, Paramus, NJ
Company Description: NetWrix Corporation is a highly specialized provider of solutions for IT infrastructure change auditing. NetWrix offers award-winning change auditing solutions at very competitive prices, matched with great customer service. Founded in 2006, NetWrix has evolved as #1 for Change Auditing as evidenced by thousands of satisfied customers worldwide. We have offices in Paramus, L.A., Boston, Tampa & UK
Nomination Category: Products & Product Management Categories
Nomination Sub Category: New Product or Service of the Year - Software - Systems Management Solution

Nomination Title: NetWrix Change Reporter Suite 2.0

Tell the story about this nominated product or service (up to 500 words). Describe its function, features, benefits, and performance to date.

This is an integrated solution for automated auditing of the entire IT infrastructure. No matter who changed what and where - be it Active Directory, file servers, Microsoft Exchange, storage appliances such as NetApp or EMC, virtual and physical infrastructure, SQL Server databases and more – everything is centrally audited, consolidated, and presented in easy to understand reports, scheduled for ongoing review and forensic auditing of day-to-day administrative activities by security team and periodic inspections by compliance auditors.

The product streamlines compliance to HIPAA, SOX, PCI, GLBA, FISMA and many other regulations, provides an easy-to-use solution that drastically improves IT infrastructure visibility and internal security. Powered by AuditAssurance™ technology, the Change Reporter Suite produces reports that include complete information on every change that has occurred in an organization. Unlike traditional log management solutions (SIEM), NetWrix makes it very easy to find relevant answers to key questions: who changed what, when, where , including previous and new values for modified settings. Another unique NetWrix technology, AuditIntelligence™, transforms raw audit data into meaningful and actionable intelligence to drive security and compliance efforts.

The product allows to:

- See Who changed What, When and Where in the entire IT infrastructure, providing the most detailed information on all user and administrative changes.
- Sustain compliance, as all audit records can be archived and stored for years, enabling one to generate reports for auditors.
- Save thousands in licensing, maintenance and training costs over most major competitors.
- Rollback any unauthorized or damaging changes without having to restore from backup or take down any resources from any point in time.
- Manage all functions with a single Enterprise Management Console, based on the familiar Windows management console look-and-feel.

Current version 2.0, released on August 11, 2011, came out with the substantially updated components and new functionality, such as monitoring, archiving and reporting user logon events as well as reporting on who accessed mailboxes of other users.

NetWrix top-quality change auditing solutions have won 30 awards and are used by thousands of organizations around the world. The impressive list of customers from various industries includes many well-known brands, such as IBM®, Boeing®, Mitsubishi®, Hyundai® and more. They have chosen NetWrix, because change auditing is the core competency of NetWrix and no other vendor focuses on this more extensively. According to the survey conducted during MS Tech-Ed 2011, 18% of IT professionals use NetWrix for change auditing, which is the highest percentage across the industry.

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Dr. Alex Vovk is the CTO and co-founder of NetWrix. Dr. Vovk brings an impressive 15-year background of software industry experience and proven leadership. Before joining NetWrix, he worked at Aelita Software (later acquired by Quest Software), where he served as the architect and project manager for the company's key technologies. Dr. Vovk holds a master's degree and PhD in information security.