Compliance by design: strengthening investigative oversight with Silo DVR

Learn how Silo Workspace strengthens investigative governance with built-in compliance, granular controls, and Silo DVR’s time-synchronized evidence.

Modern digital investigations don’t stop at the perimeter. Analysts are increasingly required to step beyond it — engaging directly with threats in real time, interacting with untrusted content, and making judgment calls as situations unfold. To be effective, they need the freedom to move quickly and work without constant interruption.

For administrators and compliance leaders, however, that same freedom introduces risk. Every action taken outside the perimeter must still align with policy, withstand audit scrutiny, and be defensible long after the investigation ends. The result is a persistent tension at the heart of modern investigations: enabling analysts to do their jobs effectively, while maintaining the trust, accountability, and verifiable oversight the organization depends on.

Silo Workspace was built to resolve this tension. Unlike traditional tools that treat compliance as an afterthought, Silo embeds policy enforcement, fine-grained permissions, real-time alerts, and comprehensive oversight directly into the investigative environment.

Now, with the introduction of Silo DVR, Silo extends this foundation by adding visual, time-synchronized evidence to existing logs and alerts — providing compliance teams with unprecedented clarity into user activity.

Oversight beyond logs alone

Text-based logs and alerts are foundational to any compliance program. They establish traceability, capture key events, and support regulatory reporting. However, in high-risk investigative environments, logs alone often fall short of answering the most critical compliance questions:

• Was activity consistent with approved investigative scope?
• Did user behavior align with policy intent, not just policy rules?
• Can oversight findings be confidently defended to regulators or auditors?

Silo DVR addresses these gaps by recording time-stamped screen activity across the Silo platform. Every session is captured, encrypted, and made accessible through the Silo Admin Console, providing compliance and security teams with visual context to support determinations that previously relied on inference.

This transforms oversight from a purely technical exercise into a verifiable, evidence-based process.

Integrated compliance with Event Manager

Silo DVR is most powerful when deployed alongside Silo Event Manager, which continuously monitors user activity and evaluates it against administrator-defined rules. Event Manager enables compliance teams to define, tune, and manage detection logic directly without dependence on external SIEMs or engineering resources.

When a rule is triggered (such as for sensitive content exposure) Event Manager generates detailed alerts and log events in real time. From there, Silo DVR allows reviewers to move seamlessly from alert to specific session and timestamp, enabling direct visual review of the activity in question.

This tight coupling between detection and evidence significantly reduces:

• Time to investigation
• Ambiguity in findings
• Operational burden on compliance teams

More importantly, it strengthens the organization’s ability to demonstrate effective oversight under regulatory scrutiny.

Fine-grained control aligned to risk

A core differentiator of Silo Workspace is its granular administrative permission model. Security and compliance leaders can define access and controls at the level of users, sub-organizations, whole organizations, applications, regions, and investigative capabilities, ensuring alignment with organizational risk tolerance.

Silo DVR follows this same principle. Screen recording can be enabled in a few ways:

• Across the organization to meet baseline compliance requirements
• For specific roles, teams, or high-risk investigations
• Selectively, based on internal policy and regulatory obligations

This allows organizations to implement risk-based oversight, rather than one-size-fits-all monitoring — an increasingly important consideration in privacy-conscious regulatory environments.

Built for audit, legal, and regulatory review

Silo DVR was designed with audit and evidentiary standards in mind. All recordings follow the same encryption model as Silo logs, with support for both Authentic8-managed keys and customer-managed encryption keys. Recordings are watermarked with user identity, egress details, and precise timestamps, and preserved as standard MP4 files for review or export.

This ensures that organizations can:

• Preserve non-repudiated evidence of user activity
• Support internal and external audits
• Respond to allegations of misuse with confidence
• Meet documentation requirements for regulatory examinations

For compliance leaders, this means oversight that is not only operationally effective, but defensible.

Reducing compliance friction without sacrificing control

Traditional oversight models often introduce friction: manual log reviews, cross-team escalation, and delayed responses that slow both investigations and compliance workflows. By unifying policy enforcement, alerting, logging, and visual review within a single platform, Silo Workspace reduces this friction substantially.

With Event Manager identifying potential issues and Silo DVR providing immediate visual confirmation, compliance teams can act faster and with greater certainty — while analysts remain focused on mission execution, not administrative overhead.

A higher standard for investigative governance

As digital investigations become more hands-on and more central to organizational risk management, expectations for oversight continue to rise. Regulators and auditors increasingly demand proof — not just of policy existence, but of effective enforcement and review.

Silo Workspace meets this demand by embedding compliance into the investigative lifecycle itself. With the addition of Silo DVR, organizations gain a level of transparency and accountability that goes beyond traditional logging. Silo Workspace sets a new standard: not just logging what happened, but showing it.

For security and compliance leaders tasked with balancing access, agility, and accountability, that distinction is critical.

Ready to see what compliance by design looks like in practice? Start a 30-day free trial of Silo Workspace and experience how integrated oversight, real-time detection, and visual evidence come together to support modern investigative governance.