Turn privileged access into evidence you are ready to hand an auditor
Audit season should not be a scavenger hunt across bastions, ticketing systems, and screen-scraping scripts. Ixiea produces the records auditors ask for as a byproduct of normal operations—structured, attributable, and captured from the moment the session begins.
Deterministic records
Every approved session lands in a persistent audit log tied to a named identity, a target, a policy decision, and a time window—no reconstruction from scattered syslog.
Full-fidelity playback
Keystrokes, commands, screen capture, and file transfers sit alongside the metadata so reviewers can watch the actual activity, not guess at it.
Exports auditors recognize
Structured outputs feed GRC tools, SIEMs, and evidence lockers. Auditors get the artifacts they already know how to read.
Map privileged activity to evidence your auditor can sample
Sessions, approvals, and policy changes are captured as they happen. Exports and syslog forwarding give your GRC team the same records in the control language each framework expects.
Evidence sources
Sessions
CC6 · AU-2Identity, target, duration, policy version, recording pointer
Approvals
CC6.1 · A.9.2Reviewer, ticket ref, decision time, entitlement window
Policy changes
CC8 · A.12.1Rule diff, author, effective timestamp, rollback ref
Structured exports
Session logs, command history, and ticket records export as CSV or JSON. Forward the same events to syslog or your SIEM for retention and search.
Live control map
ContinuousSession, approval, and policy records — exported from the audit store and forwarded to your toolchain.
The same evidence lands in the control language each auditor already reads.
SOC 2
CC6 · CC7
Typical control areas
ISO 27001
A.9 · A.12
Typical control areas
PCI-DSS 4.0
Req 7 · 8 · 10
Typical control areas
HIPAA
§164.312
Typical control areas
NIST 800-53
AC · AU
Typical control areas
The evidence gap
Most privileged-access evidence is reconstructed, not recorded
When an auditor asks who reached a sensitive host in March and what they did there, the answer usually comes from correlating ticket numbers, jump host shell history, SSH logs on the target, and a ticket comment from someone who has since left the company. Even when the answer exists, producing it takes days and still leaves room for debate.
Ixiea moves the record keeping to the moment the session happens. The approval, the policy decision, the session video, and the command log all live together—attached to a real person, not a shared service account. When the auditor asks, you open a single record instead of opening an incident.
Framework mapping, without the spreadsheet gymnastics
One control implementation—gateway-brokered, identity-bound, recorded privileged sessions—satisfies a long list of obligations across the frameworks you answer to.
Access approval workflow, principle of least privilege, logical access monitoring, and change-adjacent session evidence for CC6 and CC7 controls.
Privileged access management, user access provisioning, review of access rights, event logging, and protection of log information.
Requirements 7 and 8 for access control and authentication, Requirement 10 for logging, and quarterly privileged-access review artifacts.
Administrative, technical, and audit-control safeguards around electronic PHI—who reached which system, when, and what they did.
Account management, least privilege, remote access, session monitoring, and audit record generation mapped to specific controls.
Third-party risk management, ICT change and operations, and privileged-access traceability requirements for financial services.
Mappings are a starting point, not a replacement for your control narrative. Ixiea gives your GRC team the raw evidence and the vocabulary to point auditors to specific artifacts instead of paraphrasing policy.
Regulated workloads
PHI, PII, and cardholder data under an unbroken chain of custody
Regulated data carries duties that do not end at the perimeter. The teams responsible for those systems need to prove—not assert—that administrative access stayed inside the guardrails.
Protected Health Information
Covered entities and business associates can demonstrate a continuous chain of custody for administrative access to systems that store or process PHI—complete with session playback when an investigation demands it.
Personally Identifiable Information
Data-protection regimes expect you to know exactly who reached in-scope datastores and what they saw. Ixiea attaches identity and intent to every connection, so breach-notification clocks start from a position of clarity.
Cardholder data environments
Scope reduction works only when the path to in-scope systems is narrow and observable. The gateway enforces that narrowness and produces the logs PCI assessors specifically call for.
An audit workflow that runs every day—not once a year
The fastest way to pass an audit is to stop treating audits as a discrete event. Ixiea makes the loop continuous so evidence is always current.
Continuous controls
- Request and approve. Access requests route to named approvers with context: who is asking, which target, why, and for how long. Decisions are recorded with reviewer identity and timestamp.
- Enforce at the gateway. Only approved, in-window sessions broker through. Policy changes take effect immediately, so rescinded access actually stops working—not just on paper.
- Capture while it happens. Sessions are recorded at the gateway, not at the endpoint. Nothing depends on local agents being honest or undisturbed by the person being recorded.
- Review and attest. Periodic access reviews, certification exports, and anomaly queues make quarterly attestations a scheduled task instead of a three-week scramble.
Evidence exports
Export audit bundles by system, user, time range, or control objective. Bundles include session metadata, recorded playback, approval chains, and policy state at decision time—with timestamps and linked session IDs.
Forward the same records into your SIEM, data lake, or GRC platform as they happen. Audit reports become a query, not a project.
Audit-ready by default
Give your auditors a single place to look
Walk through your current evidence chain with our compliance team and see how Ixiea maps to the controls you already report on.