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Trusted users are SQL Server logins and members of SQL Server roles that you trust to read, update, or manage a particular audited database or an entire server or databases. The SQL Compliance Manager Agent removes events generated by trusted users from the audit trail before sending the trace file to the Collection Server for processing. This exclusion occurs for all auditing, including DML and SELECT events related to sensitive columns and before and after data.

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If you are auditing privileged user activity and the trusted user is also a privileged user, IDERA SQL Compliance Manager will continue to audit this user because of its elevated privileges. For example, a service account that is a member of the sysadmin fixed SQL Server role will continue to be audited even though the account is designated as trusted. Keep in mind that trusted users are filtered at the database level whereas privileged users are audited at the server level.

To omit, or filter, events generated by specific logins and roles from your audit data trail, click Add, and then select the SQL Server login or role you want to trust.

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Allows you to select which SQL Server logins or roles you want to trust on for this databaseserver. When a login or role is designated as trusted, the SQL Compliance Manager Agent omits all database-level activity generated by these logins from the audit data trail.

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Allows you to designate a previously trusted user or SQL Server role as non-trusted. When a login or role becomes non-trusted, SQL Compliance Manager begins auditing database-level the activity generated by this login or role, based on your current audit settings.

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