Jayashree Ramanathan  IBM Software Division, Tivoli, 11501 Burnet Road, Austin, Texas 78758-3400 (jramanatus.ibm.com). Dr. Ramanathan is a security architect in the IBM Austin Development Laboratory. She received an M. Tech. degree in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai, India in 1985 and a Ph.D. degree in computer science from Michigan State University in 1992. She joined IBM in 1992, and has worked in the areas of clustering, access control, auditing, security events, and compliance. She is the lead architect for the audit service discussed in this paper.

Richard J. Cohen  IBM Software Division, Tivoli, 11501 Burnet Road, Austin, Texas 78758-3400 (rcohenus.ibm.com). Mr. Cohen is a compliance and security architect for Tivoli Security products at the IBM Austin Development Laboratory. He received a B.A. degree in computer science and a B.S. degree in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin in 1980 and 1987, respectively. Mr. Cohen joined IBM at the Austin Development Laboratory and started his career working in various areas related to compilers and operating systems. From 1991 to 1992, he was on assignment at the Information Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University. For the last 14 years, Mr. Cohen has worked on distributed systems and security products, focusing in the last three years on the compliance area. As part of his distributed systems work, he was the primary author of the DCE Event Management System (EMS) specification.

Ernst Plassmann  IBM Software Division, Tivoli, 11501 Burnet Road, Austin, Texas 78758-3400 (eplassmaus.ibm.com). Mr. Plassmann is a software engineer at the IBM Austin Development Laboratory. He is the development technical lead for the audit service discussed in this paper. Prior to this, Mr. Plassmann worked as a developer on the IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-Business product. He received a B.S. degree in computer science from the University of Houston in 1987.

Karthikeyan Ramamoorthy  IBM Software Division, Tivoli, 11501 Burnet Road, Austin, Texas 78758-3400 (kramamoous.ibm.com). Mr. Ramamoorthy has been a software engineer with IBM since 1998 and a member of the audit-service development team since 2004. He received an M.S degree in computer science from the University of Michigan in 1993. Prior to joining IBM, Mr. Ramamoorthy worked as a software engineer for the University of Michigan Digital Library Project (JSTOR). He also worked at FAME Information Services on a proprietary database product to store time-series data and delivery mechanisms for daily stock market data.