Many enterprises are facing the Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) compliance challenge of monitoring all of the data activity of their most privileged users. This paper highlights the key requirements of monitoring and auditing data activity for SOX and how to address them.

This white paper provides an overview of SOX Section 404 and offers hands-on recommendations for effectively monitoring and creating audit reports that cover:

• Privileged user access activity
• Failed logins and other access failures
• Direct data SQL access events
• Database schema changes

In this paper, you will find detailed analysis of a number of the issues associated with privileged user monitoring as well as a best-practices approach to implementing segregation of duties without diminishing the productivity of DBAs by unnecessarily restricting their access credentials.