In their bid to evaluate the security system of any network or database, the IT auditors take the help of database log management system. Such log management helps them to analyze the status of the security aspects and enable them to make regulatory compliance validation. The best IT Governance to day is heavily dependent on a sound usb Policy based on study and analysis of logs.

Catering to such requirements of IT professionals as well as the end users, major manufacturers of database software have introduced the system of mandatory auditing. However, to set up automatic auditing of your database system and Security Information management you require setting up specific parameters apropos to the database instance. Standard audit is always enabled using the parameters for audit trailing. Additional features that you would like to add have to be set up using other tools that would give you the desired output.

For example, the two leading database software Oracle and MySQL uses several log

Types like the error, query and binary logs.  Some of these logs are automatically enabled as and when you activate the software whereas in cases of others you have to manually activate them. Some of the logging features are common with all databases. These are login and logout by the users, starting, stopping the database, system errors, data access, DBA and so on. Some of these features are essential for enterprise security management while others are part of common security features of your database system.