IT security and compliance today

Over the years, cyberattacks have increased both in frequency and sophistication. In this ever-changing threat landscape, businesses face complex security and compliance challenges. As a critical component of most corporate IT networks, Active Directory (AD) has become the primary target of attackers who exploit security gaps and compromise business resources. Implementing security strategies and compliance frameworks enables cybersecurity teams to secure IT assets, protect sensitive files, limit damage, and facilitate forensic analysis in the event of a breach.

The need for better auditing and compliance solutions

With organizations adopting the hybrid work model, the need to protect business-critical resources from modern threat agents has significantly increased. While built-in auditing provides the means to monitor the activities within your network, it falls short of the demands of today's world. Moreover, ensuring security and compliance using built-in tools is a tiring, time-consuming process. This is why businesses rely on IT auditing and compliance solutions that make it easier for cybersecurity teams to track and validate the changes in their AD environments. Equipped with capabilities such as real-time reports and instant alerts, these solutions help organizations minimize risks and strengthen their security posture.

 What is ADAudit Plus?

ManageEngine ADAudit Plus is a UBA-driven change auditing solution for both on-premises and cloud directories. It provides real-time visibility into the activities across AD, Azure AD, Windows servers, file servers (Windows, NetApp, EMC, Synology, Huawei, and Hitachi network-attached storage (NAS) devices), and workstations. With a customizable dashboard and over 250 preconfigured reports on logon activity, file activity, account lockouts, Group Policy changes, privilege use, and more, ADAudit Plus helps keep your business both secure and compliant.

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Gartner-recommended critical IAM capabilities in ADAudit Plus

  Real-time change auditing

Get detailed audit reports on privileged user activity, logon activity, and Group Policy modifications. Monitor file, ACL, and password changes in your AD environment. Also, audit Azure AD, removable storage, and NAS devices and generate out-of-the-box reports for GDPR, SOX, PCI DSS, HIPAA, FISMA, GLBA, and ISO compliance.

  High availability

Set up high availability to tide over any system or application failures through automatic failover. When the ADAudit Plus service on one machine fails, another instance of ADAudit Plus running on a different machine will automatically take over.

  Ease of deployment

There are no prerequisites or complicated deployments. Start auditing your on-premises, cloud, or hybrid IT environment within minutes.

  Reporting and ML-based UBA

Combat insider threats by identifying malicious logons, lateral movement, malware attacks, and privilege abuse with ML-based UBA.

How will ADAudit Plus benefit my organization?

ADAudit Plus comes packed with capabilities that go beyond built-in ones. Here's a list of what the solution can do and what you get with each feature:

  Active Directory and Azure AD auditing

Gain real-time visibility into all the activities happening within your AD and Azure AD environments. Track changes to AD objects, like users, groups, computers, OUs, and GPOs. Monitor all modifications made to your DNS and schema configurations and maintain secure hybrid environments.

What you receive:

A comprehensive change tracking system that maintains a detailed audit trail of who did what, when, and from where.

  File change monitoring

Audit all successful and failed file access attempts across your Windows file servers and NAS devices. Keep track of file creation, modification, and deletion actions and record changes to file and folder permissions. Monitor file integrity with detailed reports on modifications made to critical system and program files.

What you receive:

A clear view of all file activities across multiple platforms to help you spot and mitigate internal and external threats to your sensitive data.

  Logon and logoff auditing

Track the logon and logoff activity of both on-premises and remote users in your AD environment with insights into when they logged on or off, their logon type, and how long they were logged on. Analyze failed logon attempts and discover the reason for them. Pull up the detailed logon history of each user and identify users logged on to multiple machines.

What you receive:

Complete visibility into the logon and logoff activity occurring across your AD and Azure AD environments.

  Account lockout analysis

Detect and resolve account lockouts in real time using detailed reports that contain the lockout time, the user's logon history, and more. Analyze mapped network drives, Windows services, and applications to identify the source of account lockouts. Spot malicious insiders by keeping track of frequently locked out users.

What you receive:

Minimized downtime and increased help desk efficiency by resolving account lockouts faster.

  Employee activity monitoring

Capture the accurate logon and logoff times of your employees and maintain precise time sheets. Gauge the productivity of both your on-premises and remote employees by separating their active and idle hours spent while clocked in. Keep track of your employees' desktop activity by analyzing the startup and shutdown times of computers.

What you receive:

A streamlined workforce productivity and time-tracking tool that simplifies employee management.

  Group Policy change auditing

Monitor the creation, modification, and deletion of GPOs in your AD environment. Keep track of the changes made to your Group Policy settings and get instant alerts whenever critical configurations, such as the password policy or the account lockout policy, are modified.

What you get:

Detailed audit reports on Group Policy changes with information on the old and new values of modified attributes.

  Privileged user monitoring

Keep tabs on privileged users across your domain by closely monitoring the administrative actions related to user, computer, group, OU, and GPO management. Correlate and verify users' roles and privileges using the privilege escalation report documenting a user's first-time use of privileges.

What you receive:

Insightful reports that help you audit and review user privileges in your domain.

  Server and workstation auditing

Record and review all modifications made to local users, groups, policies, and user rights. Track the creation, modification, and deletion of scheduled tasks and keep an eye on the PowerShell processes running on your servers. Monitor file transfers across removable storage devices and audit printer usage along with details such as date, time, file size, number of pages, and copies.

What you receive:

Complete visibility into your Windows Server ecosystem with just a few clicks.

  Insider threat detection

Leverage UBA to establish a dynamic baseline of user activity. Detect malicious insiders by scrutinizing anomalous logons, suspicious file activities, privilege abuse, and more with detailed reports. Remediate security threats by automatically executing custom scripts to disable user accounts, disconnect user sessions, and shut down computers.

What you receive:

UBA-powered threat hunting software to help you detect, investigate, and mitigate insider threats.

  Compliance reporting

Establish a comprehensive audit trail of all the activities within your AD, Azure AD, and Windows Server ecosystems. Get prepackaged compliance reports for SOX, HIPAA, the PCI DSS, the GLBA, the GDPR, and ISO, which can be exported and archived. Be notified in real time via SMS and email alerts whenever critical events are logged and respond to threats instantly.

What you receive:

An all-encompassing auditing and monitoring tool that keeps your AD and Windows Server environments secure and compliant.

What do people say
about ADAudit Plus?

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    This tool helps me be in command of the technical environment in my Active Directory network. It is easier to find logs and manage [them] more effectively. The [low] cost for the many features got our attention.

    Diego Pontes, Tecnisa SA

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    We needed a reporting tool for Exchange. ManageEngine Exchange Reporter Plus was extremely cost effective and easy to deploy. I am certainly getting value out of email traffic reports of the product.

    Ken Collins, Senior system engineer, Sunbelt Rentals

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    I was up, running, and collecting data from my Exchange environment within five minutes with nearly zero configuration steps! The sheer amount of reports and audits offered are staggering. More than 200 reports and audits are available at your fingertips.

    Andrew Jacops, System/network administrator, 4sysops

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    I highly recommend ADAudit Plus. Now, I can easily monitor user logons, file deletions or modifications, [and] changes in AD and export them as reports. The friendly UI and product support before and after purchase are excellent.

    Hüseyin Akbaba Information technologies, RMK Marine

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    Thanks to ADAudit Plus, our daily task of file restoration and tracking the owners of the file and Active Directory changes has been reduced 85%.

    Matt CransonNetwork administrator, Morbark

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