The Ultimate Solution for Active Directory Auditing
Are you concerned about the security of your Active Directory? You're not alone. ManageEngine ADAudit Plus is here to provide you with a comprehensive auditing solution for your Active Directory and Windows Server environment.
What is Active Directory Auditing?
Active Directory auditing involves tracking changes to your Active Directory objects, including users, groups, and policies. It's crucial for ensuring security, compliance, and efficient IT operations. ADAudit Plus extends this capability to Active Directory in Azure, offering a unified auditing solution.
ADAudit Plus Dashboards
The Challenges of Active Directory Auditing
Auditing an Active Directory environment is not a walk in the park. Here are some challenges you might face:
Why Auditing is Non-Negotiable
In today's cybersecurity landscape, auditing your Active Directory is non-negotiable. It's not just about compliance; it's about safeguarding your organization's most valuable asset - its data.
Why Choose ManageEngine ADAudit Plus?
Comprehensive Auditing
ADAudit Plus offers a complete auditing solution, covering not just Active Directory but also your Windows File Servers, Windows Server Data, and even Active Directory in Azure.
Real-Time Alerts
Receive real-time email alerts for critical changes, ensuring that you can take immediate action.
Pre-configured Reports
Choose from a plethora of pre-configured reports that help you comply with industry regulations like GDPR, HIPAA, and SOX.
User Behavior Analytics
Understand user behavior patterns and detect anomalies effectively to mitigate security risks.
Windows File Server Auditing
Track changes to your file servers. Know who changed what, when, and from where.
Monitor File Changes on Windows
Get detailed information on file creations, deletions, modifications, and permission changes.
Windows Server Auditing
Audit critical activities and changes in your Windows Server environment to enhance security and meet compliance requirements.
Windows Active Directory Workstations Auditing
Monitor and audit changes made on workstations to ensure that they comply with your security policies and standards.
Azure Reporting
Extend your auditing capabilities to Azure Active Directory with detailed reports and real-time alerts.
Multi-Platform Auditing
ADAudit Plus is not limited to just Windows; it also supports auditing of Unix/Linux servers, providing a truly integrated auditing solution.
Scheduled Reporting
Automate the generation and distribution of audit reports via email to multiple users, at specified times.
Audit Policy Configuration
Easily configure audit policies with the built-in policy template editor, ensuring that you are auditing the right events for compliance and security.
Data Archiving
Archive old audit data for forensic analysis and compliance checks. You can store your data securely for as long as you need it.
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Your Active Directory Deserves the Best Auditing Solution
Don't compromise when it comes to auditing your Active Directory and Windows Server environment. With ManageEngine ADAudit Plus, you get a solution that is robust, feature-rich, and trusted by industry leaders. It's time to take control of your Active Directory auditing like never before.
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Features
Our Easy web based access:
A completely web based and can be accessed from anywhere in the domain. This allows centralized tracking and reporting of all audit changes.
An Intuitive User Interface:
Self descriptive and intuitively designed user interface automatically guides users to desired results.
Over 100 pre-configured reports:
Provides over 100 pre-configured reports covering a wide variety of Active Directory audit requirements in an organization.
A graphical representation of various audit events:
View graphical representations of the changes to most important objects in the entire domain right from the Dashboard view of ADAudit Plus.
Real-time alerts and Email Notifications:
Instant Alerts on desired / undesired audit events can be configured. These alerts are based on report profiles.
Custom Reporting:
Provides custom audit reporting capabilities - reports built over preconfigured reports by mapping specific objects of desire to actions reported.
Advanced configuration option:
For select category of reports, make use of the Advanced Configuration option to modify any built-in audit.
Automated audit reporting:
Some audit reports in your domain are frequent events like user creation that require periodic administrator attention.
Granular reporting.
View reports on specific granular actions. For example: Modification to a Domain administrator account from a specific IP address.
Export:
Export various reports to desired formats like csv, html, pdf or xls.
Archiving of audit data:
Archiving facility that helps maintain a secondary storage of Audit data.
User initiated scheduled Clean-ups :
Schedule the Clean-up of archaic data from the working ADAudit Plus database and save precious space.
My Reports category: only reports of your interest.
ADAudit Plus provides an administrator option to configure “Profile based reports” and view them in My Reports category
Profile based Reports category which lists domain specific information:
Large organizations have multiple Domains; administrators managing such organizations would like to view Domain specific information.
Multiple users can access ADAudit Plus:
ADAudit Plus allows multiple technicians to access the product. Helpdesk can access the product by using operator or admin roles.
Run as a Secure connection:
Apply your organizations" security certificate and run ADAudit Plus application as a secure connection.
Efficient functioning of the application through options like.
- Event Clean-Up and Restore
- Diskspace Alert
- Alert on unsuccessful eventlog collections
- Delete alerts, Clear alerts
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Your Role
Sarah, IT Manager
Sarah is responsible for overseeing the IT department and ensuring that all IT services are running smoothly. She uses ADAudit Plus to monitor and track changes to the Windows Server environment, detect security threats, and generate audit-ready reports to ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations.
As the IT Manager, Sarah wants to:
John, IT Director
John is responsible for the overall IT strategy and operations of the company. He relies on ADAudit Plus to monitor and track changes to the Windows Server environment, detect security threats, and troubleshoot technical issues to ensure that end-users are able to use IT services without interruptions.
As the IT Director, John wants to:
Laura, Security Officer
Laura is responsible for maintaining the security of the company's IT systems and data. She uses ADAudit Plus to monitor and track changes to the Windows Server environment, detect security threats, and generate audit-ready reports to ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations.
As the Security Officer, Laura wants to:
Mark, System Administrator
Mark is responsible for maintaining and optimizing the company's IT infrastructure, including servers, storage, and networking. He uses ADAudit Plus to monitor and track changes to the Windows Server environment, detect security threats, and troubleshoot technical issues to ensure that end-users are able to use IT services without interruptions.
Lisa, Database Administrator
Lisa is responsible for maintaining and optimizing the company's databases. She relies on ADAudit Plus to monitor and track changes to the Windows Server environment, detect security threats, and generate audit-ready reports to ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations.
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FAQs
Q: What is ADAudit Plus?
A: ADAudit Plus is a comprehensive IT auditing solution that provides full visibility into Windows Server environments, allowing you to monitor logons, track file accesses, detect changes to Active Directory objects, and more.
Q: How does ADAudit Plus help with compliance?
A: ADAudit Plus helps with compliance by providing audit-ready reports for various regulations such as GDPR, HIPAA, FISMA, PCI DSS, GLBA, and SOX, ensuring that you can demonstrate adherence to these standards during compliance audits.
Q: Can ADAudit Plus monitor user activity in real-time?
A: Yes, ADAudit Plus offers real-time monitoring of user activity, allowing you to detect and respond to potential security threats immediately.
Q: Does ADAudit Plus support auditing of Azure AD?
A: Yes, ADAudit Plus supports auditing of Azure AD, providing visibility into changes and sign-ins, and allowing you to gain a correlated view of activity across hybrid environments.
Q: Can ADAudit Plus track file access and permission changes on different file servers?
A: Absolutely. ADAudit Plus can track file access and permission changes across Windows, NetApp, EMC, Synology, Hitachi, Huawei, and Amazon FSx for Windows file servers.
Q: Is ADAudit Plus suitable for small businesses as well?
A: Yes, ADAudit Plus is designed to cater to organizations of all sizes, including small businesses. Its flexible licensing options make it accessible and affordable for businesses with varying needs.
Q: How does ADAudit Plus handle account lockouts and authentication failures?
A: ADAudit Plus alerts you about account lockouts and provides detailed information to help you analyze the reasons behind the lockouts, enabling you to troubleshoot and resolve authentication failures quickly.
Q: Can ADAudit Plus track changes made to Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS)?
A: Yes, ADAudit Plus can track changes made to AD FS, allowing you to monitor activity across federation servers and ensure the security of your federated identity infrastructure.
Q: Does ADAudit Plus offer real-time change notification?
A: Yes, ADAudit Plus provides real-time change notification, instantly alerting you about who performed what change, when, and from where in your Windows Server environment.
Q: Is ADAudit Plus easy to deploy and use?
A: Yes, ADAudit Plus offers a user-friendly interface and provides easy deployment options. Its intuitive dashboards and reports make it simple to navigate and extract valuable insights from your auditing data.
Q: How can I get started with ADAudit Plus?
A: Getting started is easy. You can download a 30-day free trial, and once you've installed it, you can follow the guided setup wizard to begin detecting and mitigating threats, streamline your auditing and demonstrate compliance. If you require any assistance, our support team is available to help you every step of the way.
Requirements
ADAudit Plus can be installed on any Windows operating system based-machine in the domain ith the following system specifications.sas
| Resource | Minimum | Recommended |
|---|---|---|
| Processor | 2.4 GHz | 3 GHz |
| Core | 4 | 6 or more |
| RAM | 8 GB | 16 GB |
| Disk space | 50 GB | 100 GB |
Note: Based on the number of users and audited events captured, additional disk space might be needed.
ADAudit Plus can be installed and run on the following Microsoft Windows operating system versions:
- Windows Server 2022
- Windows Server 2019
- Windows Server 2016
- Windows Server 2012 R2
- Windows Server 2012
- Windows Server 2008 R2
- Windows Server 2008
- Windows 11
- Windows 10
- Windows 8.1
- Windows 8
- Windows 7
- Windows Vista
Compare Editions
Standard
- All features of free edition +
- Reports and alerts on event log data collected from these licensed components:
- Domain Controllers
- Azure AD Tenants
- Windows servers
- Workstations
- Windows file servers
- NAS devices
Professional
- All features of standard edition +
- Account lockout analysis
- AD permissions change auditing
- GPO settings change tracking
- DNS and AD schema change auditing
- Old and new values of AD object attribute changes
- Support for MS SQL database
- And much more