System requirements and supported platforms

Hardware Requirements

Basic requirements

Component Minimum Recommended
Processor 2.4GHz 3GHz
Core 6 8 or more
RAM 12GB 16GB
Disk space 200GB* 1TB*
Network speed 100Mbps 1Gbps

*Some variations can be expected in these values depending on the environment and event details.

Advanced requirements

The above recommended basic requirements might need to be supplemented with additional resources in some cases. Some of these are described below.

Case Additional requirement
If you have a high event inflow from your file storage systems or your endpoints, you might need additional disk space. Disk space: To store reports and alerts for 1 million file events, you will need around 1.5GB of disk space and around 20MB of archive space.
If you have a huge number or volume of files and folders in disks in which you want to analyze file metadata and assess security permissions, you might need additional disk space. Disk space: As a general rule of thumb, allot around 2.5GB of disk space for every 10 million files or folders.
If you have configured data discovery and sensitive data reporting functions, in addition to the recommended basic requirements, you will need to add:
  • Core: Two or more depending on the desired scan speed.
  • Disk space: Disk space requirements vary depending on the volume of files to be scanned and the number of rule-match content instances. Generally, 1 million files with 10 rule matches per file will take up 400MB of disk space. In terms of rule matches alone, 3 million matches take up around 100MB and 1 million incidents take up around 60MB of disk space.
Note: Some variation can be expected in these values, depending on the environment and event details.

Software Requirements

Operating systems - ManageEngine DataSecurity Plus can be installed and run on the following Microsoft Windows operating system versions:

  • Windows 7 and above
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 and above.

Browsers - ManageEngine DataSecurity Plus requires one of the following browsers to be installed in the system:

  • Firefox
  • Google Chrome (recommended)
  • Microsoft Edge

Preferred screen resolution is 1280 x 800 pixels or higher.

Agent installation requirements

The DataSecurity Plus agent can only be run on a Windows system with .NET Framework version 4 and on the following operating systems:

  • Windows 7 and above
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 and above

Supported platforms

ManageEngine DataSecurity Plus can monitor the the following platforms to effectively audit, analyze, scan, or track data and associated activities:

Module Supported platforms
File Audit Windows server versions: Windows Server 2008 R2 and above

NetApp version: ONTAP 8.3 and above

File Analysis Windows Server versions: Windows Server 2008 R2 and above.
Data Risk Assessment

Windows Server versions: Windows Server 2003 R2 and above

Microsoft SQL versions: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and above

SMB-based shares on NAS devices, workgroup workstations and servers, and macOS and Linux devices

Endpoint DLP Windows OS versions: Windows 7 and above.
Cloud Protection Web traffic from endpoints communicating through DataSecurity Plus' gateway server
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