What is Audit Policy?
Audit policy is used to set up auditing for different events and objects on a network. It lists several policy settings which are used to audit specific events on the network. It also provides more information regarding each of the settings, such as, the objects and events that will be audited by the different audit policy settings.
The following policy settings can be enabled under audit policy :
- Audit account logon events
- Audit account management
- Audit directory service access
- Audit logon events
- Audit object access
- Audit policy change
- Audit privilege use
- Audit process tracking
- Audit system events
Auditing events with ADAudit Plus
ADAudit Plus is an Active Directory auditing tool that generates comprehensive reports on all the important events in the network. ADAudit Plus can generate these reports when audit policy is enabled for the specific events. Here is a sample Audit report from ADAudit Plus on User logon activity.
About ADAudit Plus:
ADAudit Plus is a real time change auditing software that helps keep your Active Directory, Azure AD, Windows file servers, NetApp filers, EMC file systems, Synology file systems, Windows member servers, and workstations secure and compliant. With ADAudit Plus, you can get visibility into:
- Authorized and unauthorized AD management changes
- User logons, logoffs, and account lockouts
- GPO changes
- Group attribute and membership changes
- OU changes
- Privileged access and permission changes
- Azure AD logons, and changes to roles, groups, and applications
- PowerShell scripts and modules
among other things.
There are more than 200 event-specific reports, and you can configure instant email alerts. You can also export the reports to XLS, HTML, PDF and CSV formats to assist in interpretation and forensics. For more information on ADAudit Plus, visit: https://www.manageengine.com/active-directory-audit/.
Explore Active Directory auditing and reporting with ADAudit Plus.
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