With protections turned on, a change outside the baseline stops at the point of execution. Every change, authorized and unauthorized, goes on the record for security and GRC teams.
Mimic Networks Change Enforcement holds a protected server to its known-good baseline. With protections turned on, a change outside the baseline stops at the point of execution. It monitors and tracks every change on a protected server, authorized and unauthorized, so security and GRC teams have a forensic record of what changed.
Changes outside the protected server's known-good baseline. Change Enforcement checks each change against the baseline. With protections turned on, a change outside it stops at the point of execution and a change inside it runs. In Active Mode, the node observes and reports. It enforces once a configuration with protections turned on is applied. In Maintenance Mode, Mimic suspends enforcement and keeps monitoring.
Block unauthorized changes on your servers walks through the job on a server, from baseline to the first blocked change.
Your change process approves it first. A planned deployment goes through an approval gate: a person approves it, or an approved automated approval process does. Mimic then allows the authorized change through baselining and applying policy. Change Enforcement keeps the approved change on the record with every other change, so the approval and the change sit side by side.
Every change Mimic monitors on a protected server at the kernel level, authorized and unauthorized, such as file reads and writes, processes and the registry. Change Enforcement keeps that forensic record for at least two months, for security and GRC teams. Your team reviews it in DashCam and the Management Plane. Mimic feeds enforcement events to your SIEM and SOAR platforms.
DashCam and the Management Plane are Mimic's dashboard. Your team reads the record there. Figure 2 shows DashCam's Summary view.
Mimic feeds enforcement events to your security information and event management (SIEM) and security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) platforms, so your security operations team sees them alongside the rest of its telemetry. You choose which events Mimic passes to them.
Mimic integrates with ServiceNow through custom deployments for automated ticketing and change management. Scope it with your ServiceNow owners, because it's built for your instance rather than installed as a packaged connector.
Change evidence for auditors shows how teams use the record in an audit.
Servers with a Mimic node. Mimic protects Windows Server 2016 and later, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and later. Mimic keeps supporting Windows Server 2016 after Microsoft's Extended Support ends on 12 January 2027. It doesn't run on laptops, desktops or network devices, so changes there sit outside its baseline and its record.
In Maintenance Mode, Mimic suspends enforcement and keeps monitoring. Recording continues, so every change made in the window goes on the record. That makes the window a gap in enforcement, not in the record, so plan it like any other change: only for the work you approved, only for as long as the work takes and with the same approvals you'd want for the change itself.
Start with a demo. Bring the servers you need held to a known-good baseline and the questions your auditors and incident responders will ask. The demo shows what Change Enforcement stops with protections turned on, what it records and where it stops. A proof of concept on your own servers comes after, if the answers hold up.
Product details describe Mimic Networks Change Enforcement as of 6 November 2026.
