Midland Heart effectively monitors its AD environment using ADAudit plus

Business Challenge

Midland Heart was struggling with managing and securing services running on Windows servers. It didn't have a solution to automate the management of service accounts. Moreover, the organization wasn't able to completely monitor the changes happening in its AD environment. Midland Heart also wanted to record time stamps showing when changes were made, which the native AD tools couldn't provide.

The Outcome

Midland Heart required a comprehensive auditing and reporting solution and so it chose ManageEngine ADAudit Plus that enables it to manage service accounts easily and completely, as well as monitor what is happening in its AD environment.

With ADAudit Plus, Midland Heart is able to monitor user management actions in real-time and maintain records of actions performed by users, administrators, and technicians. ADAudit Plus provides the time stamps for every change happening in the AD, like disabling a user account. This is beneficial for Midland Heart as the time stamps help automate the process for determining when user accounts will be deleted. The user management audit reports from ADAudit Plus enables the organization to audit these actions with ease.

With ADAudit Plus, Midland Heart is able to audit user logon actions across the Windows server environment. It can view reports based on specific actions; with data on logon failures based on users, logon activity based on DC/IP Address; member server logon activity; user's last logon; and more domain-specific reports. Midland Heart finds these reports very helpful in identifying stale users or unsecure accounts with passwords that have not been changed or reset in a long time.

About ADAudit Plus

ADAudit Plus is a real-time Active Directory change auditing solution that features file and folder monitoring, plus access and permission change capabilities. With more than 200 event-specific reports and real-time email alerts, it provides in-depth knowledge about changes made to both the content and configurations of Active Directory, Azure AD, and Windows servers. Additionally, ADAudit Plus provides thorough insights on workstation and file server access (including NetApp and EMC). For more information about ADAudit Plus, visit https://www.manageengine.com/products/active-directory-audit/.