Database Activity Monitoring for Amazon DocumentDB

Database Activity Monitoring for Amazon DocumentDB is the tool to keep all your data safe and sound. It provides you with eternal visibility on user activity and changes that were made in the database. This feature helps you to recognize unsafe queries and also helps you with the investigation and prevention of cyber attacks. It features immediate notification of the administrator when something suspicious is happening in your database.

DataSunrise Activity Monitoring is dedicated to monitoring activity in Amazon DocumentDB. For database security, it is crucial to monitor activity and get alerts in real-time. DataSunrise lets you capture and store all information about actions (incoming and outgoing queries) in the database, for example, who, how, and when did something. This approach saves a lot of time for your security team and blocks all malicious insider attacks and other suspicious activity immediately.

Amazon DocumentDB Activity Monitoring features customized monitoring rules. You can enable sending real-time notifications when setting up rules. If a rule is violated you will get a notification via SMTP or SNMP. It is a very useful feature as far as these messages contain detailed information about who and when has done something and what have been done. This helps you to save a lot of time: you do not need to go through all logs and queries to reveal something suspicious. Moreover, logs can be automatically sent to external applications such as SIEM applications. It is a very useful feature if you need to investigate cyber crimes or fraud activity because no one can change or edit these reports. Such reports contain the following information:

• Code of queries and responses;
• Session data of Amazon DocumentDB users;
• Applications used to query the database, their IP addresses and host names;
• Configuration changes such as rule updates, database errors, authorization attempts.

Nowadays companies should be compliant with different local and international acts and regulations protecting sensitive data such as GDPR, SOX, PCI DSS, HIPAA, etc. And database activity monitoring is one of the main requirements that should be met. With DataSunrise Activity Monitoring for Amazon DocumentDB, you can be sure that you will always know about vulnerabilities and will be able to identify threats to minimize the risk of data leakage or to prevent it. Moreover, one of the advantages of our product is easy deployment and minimal impact on database throughput.