Managing System Settings

On the Manage system settings step, you are advised to configure some of the product's internal properties. You can keep default settings for now and update them later under Configuration / System.

Cygna Auditor Service page:

1. Specify the account to run services.

   • Select Run services as Local System on the computer to impersonate as the Local System account.
   • Select Run services as a specified domain user to utilize any Active Directory account of your choice that has sufficient permissions to log in as a service on a given machine. Make sure to verify credentials.

2. Provide administrative credentials. Making changes to Cygna Auditor platform requires a service restart, Cygna Auditor will use the credentials you specify to automatically update and restart the service. Make sure to verify the credentials.

   Note: Make sure the account you specify has sufficient permissions to modify services.

Proxy page:

If your company operates in a regulated industry environment, the proxy server may be required to access resources over Internet. To communicate with Cloud components and collect audit data, Cygna Auditor requires Internet access that can be rerouted through your existing proxy server.

Complete the fields:

OPTION	DESCRIPTION
Use a proxy server for Internet access during data collection	Select the checkbox to enable traffic rerouting.
Server	Specify the proxy server name. To collect Microsoft 365 audit data, allow HTTPS access to the following URLs: cygnacloud.azurewebsites.net (GET and POST) graph.microsoft.com (GET only) login.microsoftonline.com (GET only) login.windows.net (GET only) *.microsoftonline-p.com (GET only) manage.office.com (GET only) management.azure.com (GET only) To collect AWS audit data, allow access to: *.amazonaws.com (GET and POST) To see online help, you will also need access to: docs.cygnalabs.com. For agent-based Active Directory auditing, allow access to: msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols msdl.microsoft.com *.core.windows.net (GET)
Port	Specify the port associated with a proxy connection.
Connect to the server as a specific user	Select the checkbox if you want to leverage a specific account when connecting through the proxy server. Provide user credentials.

Notifications page:

To send alert notifications and scheduled reports, Cygna Auditor requires access to SMTP server.

OPTION	DESCRIPTION
Email server
SMTP server	Specify the SMTP server name—your corporate on-premises or Cloud-based Exchange, or any public SMTP server.
SMTP port	Specify the SMTP port number.
Use SSL	Select the checkbox to connect to your SMTP server over the secured protocol (SSL).
Account name Password	Provide user credentials for SMTP authentication.
Sender information
Email	Enter email address as it will appear in the From field.
Name	Enter the name as it will appear in the From field.
Send a test email	Specify a recipient and click Send.