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Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection Administrator's Guide

Auditing

All user activity within Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection is audited to maintain a comprehensive history of user actions. This includes activities by end users, such as retrieval and sharing, and system activities involving data manipulation, like deletions. Administrative actions, such as modifying configuration settings or managing policies, are also tracked. Additionally, actions performed by privileged users in Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection data governance applications, such as removing legal holds in discovery cases, are audited. Activity intelligence data can be filtered by date ranges, locations, users, and groups and can be exported at any time for further analysis.

Table: Auditing categories

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Description

Activities page

All the activities that the Administrator and the privileged users perform on the Administration portal are displayed on this page. The page lists the events with its time of occurrence, user, event type, and other details.

Item actions page

All system-related activities, such as Personally Identifiable Information (PII) detection, indexing, and retention errors are displayed on this page.

Data retrievals page

All data retrieval activities internal and external users performs, are displayed on the page.

Sharing page

All sharing activities users perform internally or externally, are displayed on the page.

The Export as CSV option on each page lets you export the list of event logs to the CSV format.

The Refine search option on each page lets you perform an advanced search for the required event. It opens the page within the main page. On the Search section, set the required search criteria based on time range, Stor type, Discovery case, or user.

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