Active Directory Auditing Software

Lack of proper Group Policy auditing puts the business at risk in multiple ways. Unauthorized, accidental or malicious changes to Group Policy settings can jeopardize the security of sensitive resources, interrupt critical processes and services, and lead to failed compliance audits. Built-in Group Policy reporting and auditing tools provide very limited capabilities to track Group Policy changes, and Windows auditing can report only that a Group Policy was changed, with no supporting details.

Netwrix Auditor for Active Directory enables organizations to audit all Group Policy changes. It provides detailed reports about who changed what, when and where each change was made, and the before and after values for each modified setting. Moreover, administrators can get alerts about changes to critical settings so they can respond immediately.

Whenever an unauthorized change occurs in Active Directory, IT administrators need to be able to quickly recover Active Directory without impacting user productivity or causing significant downtime.

Netwrix Auditor for Active Directory helps ensure business continuity by enabling quick and easy Active Directory recovery. IT admins can restore the Active Directory configuration to its previous state without any downtime or having to restore from backup.

Ongoing review of changes made by privileged users in Active Directory helps organizations detect insider threats, investigate security incidents and prove to auditors that security policies are being followed.

Unlike standalone Active Directory auditing tools, Netwrix Auditor is a unified IT auditing platform that enables organizations to audit the broadest variety of IT systems, including Active Directory, Exchange, file servers, SharePoint and other systems—all from a single console. With Netwrix Auditor, organizations can perform Active Directory security audits, easily analyze current and past configurations, and quickly restore unwanted changes.

Reporting Active Directory changes on a regular basis with Windows native auditing is a time-consuming process. IT administrators have to manually crawl through massive amounts of log data and prepare spreadsheets that contain change details for their managers, security teams, and internal or external auditors.

Netwrix Active Directory auditing and reporting software keeps track of changes to AD configuration settings and provides automated change tracking and reporting capabilities that significantly speed the process of audit data collection, aggregation and delivery. Plus, the software regularly captures Active Directory snapshots to deliver
information about the state of configuration settings at a specific moment in time.

Windows Active Directory is used by organizations of all sizes and in all industries to store user identity information, secure access to company's resources, and define administrative and security policies. IT departments need to track Active Directory changes to be able to proactively detect unauthorized changes that can be the root cause of a downtime or security breach.

Active Directory change audit software from Netwrix provides an easy and straightforward way to audit Active Directory changes. It automatically creates and emails an Active Directory change notification detailing every modification made to AD configurations, on the schedule you specify. The notification lists changes to AD objects, newly created and deleted GPOs, GPO link changes, changes made to audit policy, password policy, software deployment, user desktops, and all Active Directory and Group Policy settings. The data includes who, what, and when information for all changes, along with previous and current values for each modified setting.

Active Directory is a key part of any Microsoft IT infrastructure because it controls access to nearly every critical resource that users need to perform their daily tasks, from computers to mailboxes. Therefore, continuous Active Directory monitoring is essential for protecting the entire IT infrastructure.

Netwrix Auditor for Active Directory delivers continuous monitoring of Active Directory changes, logon activity and configuration states. Out-of-the-box Active Directory audit reports provide actionable data about who changed what and when and where each change was made. Other reports track user logon activity and enable you to review the configuration state of your Active Directory and Group Policy at a specific moment in time.

Tracking every change made by privileged users is crucial for ensuring timely detection and remediation of inappropriate changes before they cause downtime or result in a data breach. However, using native auditing capabilities alone, tracking the activity of AD admins is extremely cumbersome — and you’re likely to miss critical events.