Active Directory password audit

Challenges with Active Directory password auditing

Hackers exploit weak Active Directory passwords through brute-force and spraying attacks, compromising domain accounts. Manual Active Directory password audit processes are time-consuming, error-prone, and fail to provide real-time insights into expiration risks, lockouts, or authentication failures. Traditional Active Directory password audit methods leave admins reactive rather than proactive.

Your complete Active Directory password audit tool

ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus eliminates manual password audit for Active Directory with automated, out-of-the-box reports. As an ideal password audit tool, it delivers real-time reports on password status, weak passwords, login attempts, and verification failures to streamline password audits into daily operations.

Powerful password audit for Active Directory

ADSelfService Plus provides essential Active Directory password audit reports that simplifies Active Directory processes, and delivers real-time insights into password health and security risks:

Soon-to-expire password users report

This Active Directory password audit report cites crucial details for proactive management, including:

• The display name and SAM Account Name of each Active Directory user with a soon-to-expire password.
• The date the current password was set.
• The date the current password will expire.

Admins can use this report to schedule proactive notifications and that help prevent service disruptions due to expired passwords.

Password Expired Users Report

This password audit report for Active Directory identifies overdue accounts with:

• The display name and SAM Account Name of each Active Directory user with an expired password.
• The date on which their expired password was set.
• The date on which their password expired.

Admins can use this report to prioritize high-risk accounts, initiate bulk resets, and restore access quickly.

User Attempts Audit Report

This powerful Active Directory password audit report determines why a user's account was locked out by providing details on:

• The number of attempts a user makes to log in to the ADSelfService Plus self-service portal using their Active Directory password.
• The date and time of the login attempts.
• The status of the login attempts.
• The machine and IP address where the attempts originated.

Admins can use this report to quickly identify suspicious login patterns, trace attack sources by IP/machine, and unlock legitimate users.

Blocked Users Report

This Active Directory password audit report generates the list of users who failed MFA verification during password resets or account unlocks, and have been blocked from accessing ADSelfService Plus. The report provides:

• Time of blocking and when the user will be unblocked.
• Domain name of the blocked accounts.

Admins can monitor MFA security effectiveness, manage block durations, and unblock users directly from this password audit Active Directory report.

Reset password audit report

This Active Directory password audit tool tracks self-service password resets, providing comprehensive password audit active directory insights into:

• The username of those who reset passwords via ADSelfService Plus self-service portal.
• The timestamp of reset attempts.
• The number of reset attempts per username.
• The type of reset (self-service password reset or automatic password reset due to expiration).

This is optimal for Active Directory password compliance reviews and troubleshooting failed resets in your Active Directory password management workflow.

Change Password Audit Report

This essential password audit Active Directory report monitors user password changes, delivering detailed Active Directory password audit visibility into:

• The username of users who changed their passwords.
• The timestamp of the password change
• The total number of change attempts.
• The type of change (due to "User must change password at next logon" enforcement or regular user-initiated change)

This is the ideal password audit tool for tracking policy compliance and detecting unusual Active Directory password audit patterns in self-service environments.

Active Directory weak password users report

The Weak Password Users Report generates a detailed list of user accounts with weak domain passwords by comparing them against a list of vulnerable and commonly used passwords.

Admins can then require these users to change their passwords the next time they log on to transform the Active Directory password audit from detection to action.

Enforce strong passwords proactively

Beyond detection, ADSelfService Plus transforms the password audit Active Directory process from defense into prevention:

• Custom advanced policies: Create unlimited policies tailored to specific organizational units, security groups, or user roles. Block keyboard sequences (qwerty), dictionary words, palindromes (abcba), repetitive characters (aaaaa), and username-derived passwords at reset time.
• Password length and history checks: Enforce minimum/maximum password lengths and prevent reuse of previous N passwords. Includes comprehensive password history tracking to maintain compliance during password audit active directory workflows.
• Real-time strength feedback: Utilize a visual password strength meter to provide instant color-coded feedback (weak/yellow, medium/orange, strong/green) during self-service resets and password changes. This guides users to create compliant passwords on their first attempt.
• Seamless hybrid coverage: Apply a consistent policy across Active Directory domains, Microsoft 365/Azure AD, and more than 100 connected SaaS applications. This ensures uniform Active Directory password audit protection in mixed environments.

Key benefits of an Active Directory password audit using ADSelfService Plus

• Streamlined auditing: The automated Active Directory password audit replaces manual log reviews.
• Improved password security: Immediate remediation insights from reports that monitor locked and vulnerable accounts, forced password resets, and enforced password policies.
• Operational efficiency: Ties the Active Directory password audit tool into self-service workflows for faster resolutions.