X Windows System and Wayland Monitoring

Continuous monitoring. Real-time alerts. Immediate incident response.

Syteca is a cybersecurity platform offering advanced capabilities for monitoring SSH, X Window, and Wayland sessions. As the only cybersecurity supporting with support for Wayland monitoring, Syteca provides unmatched oversight possibilities across Linux environments. With Syteca, you can monitor and record user sessions, receive alerts on suspicious actions, and generate detailed reports on user activity for complete visibility within your IT perimeter.

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Enable session monitoring for X Window System and Wayland

X Window System (or X11) and Wayland are key display protocols for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. While X Window System has been around since 1987, Wayland was introduced in 2008 to offer a more modern and secure approach to display management in Lunix environments.

Syteca is the only cybersecurity platform offering user activity monitoring across both X Window System and Wayland, providing comprehensive monitoring across both legacy and modern Linux setups.

With Syteca’s lightweight clients, you can monitor activity on popular Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Red Hat, CentOS, and Debian, supporting:

Linux desktop environments (KDE for X11, GNOME for both Wayland & X11)
Cloud desktop sessions on Amazon Linux WorkSpaces
UI applications launched via SSH (X11 forwarding)
VNC and other remote desktop applications
xrdp sessions

Syteca records X Window System and Wayland sessions in a searchable screen capture format indexed with metadata, such as executed commands and the titles of active windows. This enables detailed user activity audits and security incident investigations.

Make user actions transparent

With Syteca, you can get detailed reports on what’s going on across X Window System and Wayland environments. This information will help you better understand users’ behavior patterns within your IT infrastructure.

Syteca enables you to generate over twenty types of different user activity reports. Among them are reports on:

Sessions started on target endpoints
Commands entered in the SSH console (for X11)
Сommands in terminal and scripts and terminal responses
Users’ total idle/working time
Applications used
URLs visited
Triggered security alerts

All data is automatically sent to the Syteca Application Server for secure storage. Even if your Internet connection goes down, the Syteca client will continue recording user activity data and store it locally until it reconnects to the server.

Why choose Syteca?

Syteca is the leading solution for user activity monitoring on Linux-like platforms. It makes your infrastructure more transparent and secure.

The main advantages of Syteca are:

Multi-session recording

Syteca monitors all sessions, whether they’re initiated locally or remotely. If several X11 or Wayland sessions are started on a target endpoint, Syteca will monitor and record them all.

Full activity monitoring

When installed on a server, the Syteca Client monitors X11, Wayland, and SSH console sessions initiated on the server. Therefore, you can monitor and audit user activity regardless of the session type or the user’s role and access level.

Data protection and compliance

Syteca ensures high protection for your critical assets and simplifies compliance with the main IT security standards and regulations. Additionally, Syteca protects gathered data with pseudonymization and encryption.

Adaptable licensing

Syteca offers a flexible and transparent licensing model with no hidden fees. You can adjust the platform for deployments of any size. With floating endpoint licensing, you have even more freedom in managing your monitored endpoints.

Support for multiple platforms

Syteca is a universal solution for monitoring user sessions on Linux-based platforms. It also supports Windows, Citrix, macOS, and other popular platforms.

Get the most value with multi-platform support

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