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What is cWatch?

What exactly is cWatch?

It's a managed Security-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution in the cloud backed by human expertise for deep analysis & insight into your security and compliance posture. cWatch Web provides 24/7 security monitoring and management to keep any IT environment safe from suspicious and malicious activity. It's a fast setup, low-maintenance solution for any budget that instantly puts your mind at ease and allows you to remain focused on your core business. It even comes with a cool dashboard to follow along.

Sectigo cWatch can address and remediate all 3 major security issues:

1. Threat Management: Continuous monitoring and reporting network, system, user activity, and data access in combination with extensive analysis and correlation capabilities.
2. Compliance: Log management and compliance reporting
3. Incident Management, Handling and Response: Enables assignment of incidents, creates cases for a group of incidents, remediation notes, and event details in a single view.

There are 2 kinds of features offered in cWatch. These are cWatch Network and cWatch Web Security.

1. cWATCH Network is an advanced threat and breach detection service that protects networks, assets, and sensitive data from malicious activity. cWatch LAN combines and provides File visibility, Network visibility, Endpoint visibility, User action visibility.
   • The aim of cWatch Network is to detect and take action on:
   1. Unusual Inbound/Outbound Network Traffic
   2. User Account Activity Anomalies
   3. Geographical Anomalies
   4. Authentication Anomalies
   5. Anomalies Specific to Backend Applications
   6. Web Traffic Anomalies
   7. Malware File Checking
   8. Port-Application Traffic Anomalies
   9. Suspicious Registry Or System File Changes
   10. DNS Request Anomalies
   11. Mobile User Profile Anomalies
   12. Signs Of DDoS Activity
   13. Long-Term Trending
   14. Detection of Autonomous System Behavior
2. cWATCH Web Security Service is a comprehensive solution for web application security that follows the security-as-a-service delivery model and includes follow the sun monitoring and management provided by Comodo Security Operations Center.
   • cWatch Web Security offers a holistic approach to web application security by providing full server environment monitoring of not only the Web Server itself but also the following critical server components:
   1. Comodo Web Application Firewall Logs
   2. Database Access Logs
   3. Web Server Logs
   4. Logs for Configuration Changes
   5. OS Authentication Logs
   6. Security Logs
   7. OS Level Event Logs
   8. Control Panel Logs

You can get started with one of our 3 cWatch plan offers which start at $3.90 per month here:  https://directnic.com/hosting/cwatch.