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Generating Reports

When generating reports, it is a good idea to segment the information that you are monitoring rather than to produce one large report for your organization. If you segment the critical selection criteria from the non-critical, you can more easily focus on critical information.

Consider the following sample breakdown of daily reports:

• Report A contains violation information against all data sets.
• Report B contains violation information against each data set and indicates which ACID requested access, what type of access was requested and what access level was allowed for that ACID.
• Report C contains information about all ACIDs that have received password violations.
• Report D contains initiation information for all terminal violations.

While the needs of each organization differ, you can see that when reporting is segmented such as in the sample breakdown, it is much easier for the Security Administrator to review critical violations and activity because the critical information is structured in such a way that it stands out from the less critical information.