Group Policy Auditing Software

Having passwords expire is necessary for security, but it is a burden on both users and the IT helpdesk. Automated AD password change notification can help. Netwrix Auditor for Active Directory reminds users to change their passwords several days before the expiration date by automatically sending password expiry notification emails to the account owners and delivering summary reports to system administrators. That way, you can maintain a strong password policy without users getting locked out of their accounts or the helpdesk being overwhelmed with password reset calls.
Moreover, Netwrix Auditor for Active Directory notifies you about any changes made to your password policy settings, such as the maximum password age and minimum password length, so you can quickly spot any unauthorized or unwanted modifications and respond before they impact business processes or lead to a breach.

Auditing Group Policy and Active Directory using native logs only can be a time-consuming and exhausting process that can easily distract you from your primary duties. Moreover, because of the amount of logs, you will likely miss critical events that could endanger the security of your IT environment. Netwrix Auditor for Active Directory helps mitigate the risk of security breaches and compliance failures by keeping you current on events you consider critical to your organization, such as changes made to user and computer configuration policies, password resets, or DS object modifications. For instance, if a user account was modified, this Active Directory reporting tool from Netwrix will report on exactly which property was changed and how, along with the previous and new values.

Every organization is at risk of its inactive Active Directory accounts being compromised. Netwrix Inactive User Tracker provides actionable data about inactive accounts to help you strengthen Active Directory security, eliminate security gaps and streamline user account management. With this insight, you can decide which inactive accounts to disable or delete so they can’t be misused by external hackers or malicious insiders.

Managers and compliance auditors often ask IT admins to compile a list of all effective group membership and file or folder share permissions granted to a group or a particular user. With native tools, responding to these requests requires manually pulling together multiple scripts and building reports, which can be both time-consuming and error-prone. But with the effective permissions tool from Netwrix, you can satisfy such requests in minutes, validating the effective permissions and group memberships for a specific user or different groups across Active Directory and file shares.