Cross-platform management vendor Centrify this week introduced an auditing tool that lets Windows shops log, monitor and audit the activity of their users working in Unix and Linux environments.

FileAudit 4 is the first and only file auditing solution Microsoft-certified for compliance with Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012. FileAudit ensures data security and SOX, FISMA and HIPAA compliance.

I have just been given a rather strange requirement. We have some file servers that have large amounts of files (hundreds of thousands). Quite a few staff have read-only access to these shares and ...