Exchange security scenario

With IT employees working from remote locations because of hybrid work structures, the amount of confidential business information shared over emails has increased exponentially. Emails are the most vulnerable vector with regards to IT and cybersecurity attacks. According to a Check Point Research report, cyberattacks have increased by 50% over the past 2 years, with almost every organization facing over 1,000 attacks per week. Outside the secure confines of the corporate network, the need to monitor and fortify your Exchange environment has grown.

Why do you need another tool to secure your Exchange environment?

The native tools in Exchange Server, Exchange Online, and Skype for Business are not comprehensive enough to help secure your organization. Attackers are getting more creative with leveraging the loopholes in Exchange and Skype environment each day. So, it's always better to have an additional layer of security with the help of a dedicated tool specifically devised for this purpose. In this period of sophisticated IT attacks, you need granular control, an easy way to monitor your Exchange Server services, immediate alerts, and a central portal to keep track of all user activities and environment changes.

 What is Exchange Reporter Plus?

Exchange Reporter Plus is an intuitive, user-friendly tool that helps you report on, audit, monitor, and carry out content search for hybrid Exchange and Skype for Business. It features over 450 comprehensive reports on Outlook Web Access (OWA) and ActiveSync along with various Exchange objects such as mailboxes, public folders, and distribution lists, message size limits, and permissions. It also helps you ascertain email response times and locate particular information in the content of the email based on keywords. You can also configure alerts to get instant notifications via SMS or email on critical changes made in the Exchange environment that require your immediate attention.

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Critical, Gartner-recommended IAM capabilities in Exchange Reporter Plus

As an Exchange admin, the first thing you probably look at while choosing a specialized tool to manage your Exchange servers or Exchange Online tenants, is its IAM capabilities. Providing access to the right admins, for the right purposes, with right level of control can solve most of your security and privacy issues.

Here's a list of IAM capabilities available in Exchange Reporter Plus:

  Enforce compliance in every aspect of your organization

Comply with GDPR requirements by choosing to hide confidential data displayed under the reports generated. Get exclusive reports for HIPAA, SOX, GLBA, and PCI DSS compliance standards.

  Granular privilege delegation

Control every aspect of your Exchange environment by providing granular access rights to chosen technicians. Avoid giving unchecked access to any technician and ensure you maintain proper checks and balances.

  Near real-time change auditing

Audit all user actions and mailbox-related changes. Keep a log of not just delegates' and non-owners' activities, but owner and admin activities as well.

  User authentication methods

Amp up your Exchange organization's security by enabling two-factor authentication while logging in, and enforce security hardening techniques for accessing reports, generating audit logs, performing content search, and more.

  Simple deployment

As an on-premises solution, Exchange Reporter Plus requires no prerequisites or complicated setup mechanisms. It offers flexible licensing options and allows you to choose and pay only for the servers and tenants that you would like to manage.

How will Exchange Reporter Plus benefit my organization?

Exchange Reporter Plus empowers you to go beyond what the native tool offers. Below is a list of Exchange Reporter Plus' key features:

  Mailbox content search

Screen all content shared via your organization's mailbox using the granular content search options offered under Exchange Reporter Plus. Perform instant searches in important mailboxes to look for content like bank account numbers and credit card details. Optimize your search window by choosing only the required folders.

What you get:
  • Perform attribute and keyword-based searches.
  • Custom profiles to perform automatic searches regularly during scheduled hours.
  • Multiple conditions to sharpen your mailbox content searches.
  Audit log storage for an indefinite period

With Exchange Reporter Plus' near real-time audit logs, you can stay vigilant about unauthorized mailbox logon attempts and changes made to the mailbox settings. You can closely monitor the mailbox quota limit, size restrictions, and activation- and deactivation-related changes.

What you get:
  • Track delegates, non-owner mailbox activities, and server-based logons.
  • Store audit logs for an indefinite period.
  • Create custom actions that you would like to audit and export reports in four different formats.
  • Forward audit logs to SIEM tools like Splunk and Syslog servers directly. Import data and get it analysed in seconds.
  Services monitoring and instant alert notifications

Monitor your Exchange Server services 24/7 to ensure business continuity. Learn how long it takes for emails to reach their destination mailboxes by using the email queue monitoring option. Create alert profiles for specific incidents, upon which an instant notification is sent to the admins who can cater to the issue immediately and get it resolved before it blows up.

What you get:
  • Immediate custom notifications about important alerts via SMS and email.
  • Health status of mail flow and connectivity protocols like Exchange ActiveSync, IMAP, and POP.
  • Options to check database connectivity, replication, backup, and search health statistics.
  • Alerts when Exchange Server, mailbox, or database storage exceeds quota limits.
  Reports management and scheduling options

Exchange Reporter Plus is a trove of comprehensive reports on all important aspects of Exchange Server and Online tenants. There are around 450 reports that help you gain insights on mailbox settings, permissions, email traffic, inbound and outbound messages, databases, public folders, distribution lists, and more.

What you get:
  • Reports on Exchange Server, Exchange Online and Skype for Business services.
  • Custom reports to keep an eye on the Exchange and Skype objects that you deem necessary.
  • Customizable fields that can be displayed or exported under predefined reports.
  • Instant export of reports in several formats, including CSV, PDF, HTML, and XLS.
  Exclusive security and compliance reports

In Exchange Reporter Plus, you have separate reports that help you check if every aspect of your organization complies with the global security standards or not. The tool also provides reports that help you analyze your organization's activities from a cybersecuirty point of view and help with internal audits.

What you get:
  • Separate reports to monitor HIPAA, SOX, GDPR, GLBA, and PCI DSS compliance standards.
  • Important stats about OWA, ActiveSync, and other Exchange objects like public folders and distribution lists.
  • Skype for Business server information including conference, instant messaging, audio, and video details.
  • Intra-organizational traffic and group traffic reports to help you scrutinize internal security.
  Security hardening options

To enforce privacy and security further, Exchange Reporter Plus enables you to choose security hardening options that suit your organization. There are several options like enforcing HTTPS, mandating that the default admin's password be changed after first logon, enabling LDAP SSL connection, rolling out GDPR compliance policy norms, and setting up two-factor authentication for logons.

What you get:
  • Two-factor authentication for every user and admin logon.
  • Secure connection with Active Directory via LDAP SSL.
  • Add an additional layer of security by mandating HTTPS communication between the browser and tool.
  Extensive one-stop solution

As a reliable solution for on-the-go access, Exchange Reporter Plus offers the flexibility that most technical solutions don't. At any point of time, you can quickly access its graphical dashboard to see the status of your Exchange environment and generate instant reports. Configure only the Exchange servers and online tenants that you wish to manage.

What you get:
  • Flexible licensing options allowing you to pay only for what you manage.
  • Options to manage or un-manage specific servers and tenants at any point of time.
  • One portal for managing three services (Exchange Server, Exchange Online, and Skype for Business).

What do people say
about Exchange Reporter Plus?

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    With Exchange Reporter Plus, IBTS experienced an easy and cost-effective deployment. Without having to worry about remembering huge PowerShell commands, IBTS now found it very easy to get the much-needed Exchange insights with just few mouse clicks.

    Shannon Rubin, Institute for Building Technology and Safety

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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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    Exchange Reporter Plus turned out to be the only solution that gave us mailbox size and group information within our budget. Now, we are able to notify end-users when their mailboxes reach a specific limit.

    Renee Davis, Life Management Center, Florida

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    We needed an easy to use tool for monitoring our Exchange server. Exchange Reporter Plus is very simple to use, and the interface is pretty intuitive. The reporting tool saves us time, and keeps us very informed.

    US-based customer

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