Evidence auditors can sign off on in one pass
Ixiea produces the artifacts security and compliance teams already need: structured logs, attributable sessions, approval chains, and framework-ready exports—generated at the point of action, not reconstructed the week before an audit.
Evidence is produced at the point of action—approvals, sessions, commands—not reconstructed from log fragments after the fact.
Session metadata, command logs, and recordings persist to your storage backend and forward to syslog or SIEM — ready for retention policies and auditor review.
Mappings for SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, and HIPAA generate the artifacts auditors ask for instead of ad hoc spreadsheets.
One evidence pipeline, every framework
Every brokered session funnels into the gateway, is transformed once into structured, hash-chained evidence, and fans back out mapped to the control catalogs your auditors already read.
Evidence sources
Brokered sessions
ssh · rdp · sqlSSH, RDP, and database sessions arrive identity-attributed with policy version
Approval chains
CC6 · A.9JIT requests, break-glass, and exceptions with requester, approver, and scope
Policy history
CC8 · A.12Rule diffs, authors, effective timestamps, diffable at any point in time
Admin events
AU-2 · AU-3Ixiea admin actions logged to the same stream, no separate blind spot
Produced at the point of action
Evidence is emitted inline with the session or approval, not reconstructed from log fragments the week before an audit.
Framework fan-out
Export readyEach brokered SSH, RDP, or database session arrives identity-attributed.
Hash-chained, structured records produced at the point of action.
Exports shaped to SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, and HIPAA workpapers.
Hash-chained
Per-record integrity with periodic root anchors and continuous verification
Framework exports
SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, and NIST artifacts from one pipeline
GRC-ready APIs
Stable, versioned event stream for your existing compliance tooling
Signed manifests
Export bundles include artifact hashes and build provenance
What gets recorded
Six streams that make a privileged estate reviewable
Auditors rarely ask for more data. They ask for data that ties together. Ixiea writes every record with the same identity, session, and policy anchors so the joins are already done.
Approval chains
Every JIT request, break-glass use, and policy exception is recorded with requester, approver, reason, target, and time-to-expiry. The chain reads as a narrative, not a join across five tables.
Session artifacts
Each privileged session emits a metadata record: identity, target, protocol, start and end, policy version applied, and a pointer to the recording. That record is the anchor auditors follow.
Command and statement logs
Interactive commands and SQL statements are captured at the gateway with arguments. Searchable, exportable, and tied to the session record that authorized them.
Policy change history
Who changed what rule, when, with whose approval, and what the rule looked like before. Reviewers can diff policy state at any point in time.
Administrative events
Admin actions against Ixiea itself—user provisioning, connector changes, role grants—are logged to the same stream as operator activity. No separate admin blind spot.
Access review exports
Periodic review packets list entitlements per user, per target group, with last-used timestamps. Reviewers attest in-product; the attestation is evidence.
Framework mappings
Speak each framework without a translation layer
Ixiea ships with mappings from product evidence to the controls your auditors already care about. You hand over artifacts named the way their workpapers are organized.
SOC 2
CC6, CC7 controls
Logical access, privileged identity, change management, and monitoring. Export artifacts map to common control descriptions used by auditors.
ISO 27001
Annex A.5, A.8, A.9
Access control, operations security, and user access management. Covers policy, enforcement, and review evidence in one export.
PCI DSS
Requirements 7, 8, 10
Restrict access by business need, identify and authenticate users, and log and monitor all access to cardholder data.
HIPAA
Security Rule 164.308 / 164.312
Workforce access authorization, audit controls, and information system activity review. Evidence is attributable to named users.
NIST 800-53
AC, AU, IA families
Access control, audit and accountability, and identification and authentication. Useful for federal and FedRAMP-adjacent programs.
Retention & export
Evidence you can retain, search, and hand off
Session recordings land in object storage you control. Command and login events index for search and export. Forward to syslog or your SIEM so privileged activity sits alongside the rest of your security telemetry.
Pair gateway-side capture with your own immutability controls — bucket policies, object lock, or downstream archival — when regulations require write-once retention.
Built-in audit plumbing
- Replay storage to S3, Azure, OSS, and other object backends
- Command logs searchable via Elasticsearch integration
- Syslog forwarding for login and operational events
- Role-scoped reviewer access, itself logged
- Configurable retention on recordings and audit metadata
Chain of custody
Approvals that are themselves part of the audit trail
Every approval—JIT elevation, break-glass, policy exception—is captured with requester, approver, reason, scope, and duration. Auditors trace an action back through the gate that let it happen, not a Slack screenshot.
Captured at source
Events are emitted by the gateway in line with the action they describe—not reconstructed by a log shipper later.
Linked to session context
Each log row carries identity, target, protocol, and session ID — so reviewers pivot from an event to playback without manual correlation.
Replicated immediately
Records are written to your SIEM and to durable storage as they happen. The gateway is not a single point of evidence failure.
Retained and reviewable
Retention is set per record type. Reviewers query with role-scoped access; every view is itself logged to complete the chain.
Structured exports
Evidence packets auditors can open without a walkthrough
Scope an export by framework, period, population, or target. Ixiea assembles the artifacts—entitlement listings, access reviews, session summaries, and approval chains—into a packet that reads cleanly against the control catalog you were asked to evidence.
Prefer to pull raw data into your GRC platform? Every record is available via stable, versioned APIs and a structured event stream.
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Entitlements
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Attestations
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Sessions
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Approvals
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Integrity
Walk into your next audit
Evidence, collected as the work happens
We will show you a framework-scoped export, verify integrity on the fly, and map every record back to the action that produced it.