COMPLIANCE
Compliance comes down to one question: can you prove it?
Across every framework — financial, healthcare, payments, energy, government — an audit asks the same thing: can you show what happened, when, and who did it, without gaps? NXLog Platform collects log data from across your whole estate, keeps it complete, timestamped, tamper-evident, and retained, and puts that evidence within reach when the audit comes. One pipeline, every source, every framework.
THE CHALLENGE
Why compliance logging is harder than the checkbox suggests
You answer to more than one framework at once.
Most organizations carry several — a hospital meets HIPAA and PCI DSS; a bank meets DORA, PCI DSS, and SOX; a manufacturer meets ISO 27001 and data-integrity rules. Each expects log evidence, and managing that separately for each is where teams lose time.
Coverage gaps fail audits.
The systems auditors ask about are often the ones hardest to collect from — Windows-heavy estates, legacy and mainframe systems, OT and network devices that standard agents read poorly or not at all. A silent gap on an in-scope system is a finding.
Retention is not the same as detection.
Your SIEM holds a short window of hot data for active search. Audit and forensic reconstruction need a far longer, complete record — kept somewhere it doesn't cost detection-tier prices.
Evidence has to be trustworthy.
A log only counts as evidence if it's protected from tampering, carries accurate timestamps so event order is reconstructable, and is access-controlled so the wrong people can't read or alter it.
The result? Teams assemble evidence by hand at audit time, framework by framework, and still carry blind spots on the systems that are hardest to collect from.
THE SOLUTION
One evidence layer across your whole estate
NXLog Platform is a telemetry pipeline that sits in front of your SIEM and your storage. It collects log data from every system you run, keeps a complete and timestamped record, protects it from tampering, and retains it for as long as your frameworks require — then routes the security-relevant subset to your SIEM and the full record to retained storage.
Because the evidence layer is one pipeline rather than a per-system patchwork, you set retention, time handling, integrity, and access control once and apply them everywhere — and you can produce the complete record for any system and time window on demand. The frameworks differ; the evidence layer doesn't have to.
THE FRAMEWORK-AGNOSTIC CORE
What every framework asks for
Built on the requirements frameworks share, not on any single regulation.
01Complete coverage
- Log every in-scope system — including legacy, Windows-heavy, OT, and network sources standard agents miss.
- No silent gaps where a vendor agent couldn't read a source.
02Retention
- Keep records for as long as each framework requires, beyond your SIEM's hot-search window.
- Full-fidelity history available for forensic and audit reconstruction.
03Integrity and tamper-evidence
- Forward logs off the source quickly and protect them from alteration and deletion.
- Records that hold up as evidence, not just as operational data.
04Time accuracy
- Synchronize timestamps to a reliable reference source across the estate.
- Event order is reconstructable — the foundation of any incident timeline.
05Controlled access
- Role-based access control over who can see log data; PII detection and masking where records contain personal data.
- Meet access and privacy obligations without copying sensitive data where it shouldn't go.
06Demonstrability
- Produce the complete record for any system and time window on request.
- Turn an audit from a scramble into a query.
FRAMEWORKS BY INDUSTRY
Orientation, not legal claims
NXLog Platform helps you meet the logging and audit-evidence requirements within these frameworks. Confirm scope with your compliance team.
| Industry | Framework coverage |
|---|---|
| Financial services | DORA, NIS2, PCI DSS, SOX, GLBA, NYDFS, FFIEC, SEC, and AML obligations. (DORA's ICT risk-management RTS sets explicit logging, retention, and clock-synchronization requirements; PCI DSS Requirement 10 governs access logging and audit trails.) |
| Healthcare and life sciences | HIPAA audit controls (§164.312(b)); and for regulated manufacturing, electronic-records and audit-trail expectations under FDA 21 CFR Part 11, EU GMP Annex 11, and ALCOA+ data-integrity principles. |
| Payments and retail | PCI DSS logging, retention, and access-monitoring requirements for cardholder-data environments. |
| Energy, utilities, and OT | NERC CIP security-event logging for critical infrastructure, and IEC 62443 monitoring expectations for industrial control systems. |
| Government and defense | Audit and accountability controls under NIST SP 800-53, and the programs built on it (FISMA, FedRAMP, CMMC). |
| Cross-industry standards | ISO/IEC 27001 logging controls, SOC 2 monitoring criteria, NIST CSF, and GDPR's security-of-processing and accountability requirements. |
This list is orientation for readers, phrased as “helps meet the logging and evidence requirements within.” Specific clause references are included only where verified (DORA RTS Art. 12, PCI DSS Req 10, HIPAA §164.312(b)). Everything else is at framework-name level by design.
SECURITY CAPABILITIES
The controls behind the requirements
File integrity monitoring (FIM)
Detect changes to critical files.
PII detection and masking
Keep personal data out of places it shouldn't reach.
Role-based access control (RBAC)
Control who can view and manage log data.
Tamper-evident forwarding
Move logs off the source and protect the record.
Retention and routing
Keep the full record in low-cost storage; send the security subset to the SIEM.
Clock synchronization
Accurate, consistent timestamps across the estate.
Trusted where the audits are hardest
NXLog collects and retains compliance evidence for organizations across finance, government, healthcare, energy, and manufacturing.
Compliance goals met
across domestic and international regulations
— La Banque Postale
Audit-ready retention
across ~500,000 log sources, with the full record kept locally for compliance
— Top-10 U.S. bank
SEC, SOX, PCI, and GLBA
coverage on a vendor-agnostic pipeline
— Top-3 automotive finance company
“We are very pleased working with NXLog and really appreciate all the advanced features of the product. We were looking for a lightweight log collection tool, that allows to flexibly filter and transform events, while keeping it easy to deploy agents across Microsoft infrastructure. We considered NXLog as the most versatile product that completely fulfill all the needs for us.”
CISO, Automotive Financial Services Company (anonymized)
For the buying committee
CISO / Compliance Officer
- One evidence layer across every framework you answer to — set retention, integrity, and access once.
- Complete, tamper-evident, retained records, including the systems hardest to collect from.
- Produce the record for any system and time window on demand — audits become queries.
Security Architect
- One agent and one pipeline across Windows, legacy, OT, network, and cloud.
- Integrity, timestamping, PII masking, and RBAC applied in the pipeline, before data lands.
- Route the full record to retained storage and the security subset to your SIEM.
GET STARTED TODAY
Make your next audit a query, not a scramble
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