Login monitoring software

Login monitoring with ADAudit Plus

What is login monitoring software?

Login monitoring software collects, centralizes, and analyzes logon and authentication activities so security teams can identify threats, investigate incidents, and demonstrate compliance without manually combing through event logs on individual systems.

ADAudit Plus is a user behavior analytics (UBA) driven login monitoring and AD auditing solution that captures every logon event across your Windows environment and surfaces the context needed to act on it.

Key logon activities ADAudit Plus captures across your environment

Track every successful and failed logon event

DC, member server, and workstation logon events are reported separately and in aggregate.

• Every failed attempt surfaces the originating machine and IP address so you can trace the source without logging into individual DCs.
• The Currently Logged On Users report shows who has an active session at any given moment, across which machines.
• Users logged into multiple computers surfaces concurrent sessions that may indicate credential sharing or a compromised account.
• First and last logon times per user per workstation give you the attendance and access trail auditors regularly request.

 

 

Get detailed insights into failed logon attempts across your domain, including user name, client IP, client host, DC, logon time, and failure reason.

Correlate logon data across Windows surfaces

Track logon activities across DCs, member servers, workstations, Remote Desktop Gateways, RADIUS/NPS servers, and AD FS.

• Sessions routed through Remote Desktop Gateway are tracked at the gateway level, giving you a record of external connections even when the endpoint is not domain-joined.
• Every RDP connection and disconnection event is recorded, including source IP and client machine name.
• Successful network authentications are recorded with user identity, source IP, and NPS server; failed RADIUS authentications appear separately with the failure reason.
• AD FS logon successes, failures, and extranet lockout events are recorded separately, giving you visibility into federated authentication activity that does not pass through your DCs.

 

 

Track remote logons with details on who logged in, when the logon occurred, which computer was accessed, and the source of the connection.

Extend login monitoring to cloud environments

Monitor both on-premises AD and Microsoft Entra ID logons from a single console with ADAudit Plus. Employee sign-ins through Entra ID are displayed alongside traditional domain logons in a unified reporting view.

• Capture every Entra ID sign-in event with details such as user identity, source IP address, geo-location, device information, and MFA status.
• The Hybrid Logon Activity report correlates logon events across on-premises AD and Entra ID environments.
• Dedicated reports help identify legacy authentication sign-ins that use older protocols capable of bypassing MFA.

 

 

Get an overview of logon activity across your AD and Entra ID environments.

Detect anomalies with UBA and threats with Attack Surface Analyzer

The Attack Surface Analyzer detects 25+ named AD attacks in real time, including brute-force, password spray, pass-the-hash, pass-the-ticket, Golden Ticket attacks, and Kerberoasting.

ADAudit Plus uses machine learning to establish a behavioral baseline for each user based on patterns such as typical logon times, frequently accessed machines, and authentication activity. Any deviation from this baseline is automatically flagged in the Analytics tab without the need for manual threshold configuration.

• Unusual Logon Activity Time flags logons that occur outside a user's typical working hours based on their historical behavior baseline.
• First Time Host Accessed by User identifies when a user logs on to a machine they have never accessed before, potentially indicating lateral movement or a new work location.
• Unusual Volume of Logon Failure detects spikes in failed authentication attempts beyond a user's normal baseline, helping identify brute-force attacks or credential compromise.

 

 

Leverage machine learning to detect unusual volumes of logon failures, abnormal logon activity times, first-time host access, and more.

Get real-time alerts on critical logon events

ADAudit Plus ships with default alert profiles covering the logon events that matter most. Every alert can trigger an automated response: a ticket created in ServiceNow, Freshservice, Jira, ManageEngine Service Desk Plus, or Zendesk, or a forwarded event to your SIEM via SIEM integration.

• When an account lockout occurs, your team is notified immediately so the root cause can be investigated before the user calls the help desk a second time.
• When a Kerberos replay attack is detected, the event surfaces in real time so the affected session can be reviewed and terminated if necessary.
• When RADIUS authentication failures spike, the team responsible for network access is notified before the underlying issue compounds.

Meet login monitoring requirements for compliance

Logon activity is one of the most frequently audited areas across every major compliance framework. Access control, authentication events, and failed logon tracking all appear as explicit requirements in SOX, HIPAA, PCI DSS, FISMA, GLBA, GDPR, and ISO 27001.

ADAudit Plus ships with pre-configured compliance report sets for all seven frameworks, mapped to the specific controls that cover logon auditing. Reports can be scheduled for automatic delivery to auditors by email, on a daily, weekly, or monthly cadence, so compliance requests don't require manual extraction each time.

Custom report profiles let you go further: combine specific users, audit actions, and time filters into saved views that you can run on demand. If your auditor asks for all privileged account logon activity for a specific server over the last 90 days, you build that profile once and run it in seconds whenever it's needed, without re-configuring a report from scratch.

Why native tools fall short for login monitoring

Windows Security event logs are stored locally on each DC. Investigating a single failed logon event across a multi-DC environment means logging into each DC individually, filtering the Security log manually, and correlating the results yourself. No native tool aggregates this data centrally with failure reason breakdown and source IP in a single view.

• Event Viewer has no built-in search across multiple DCs, no failure reason categorization, and no retention policy beyond what the local log size allows before events are overwritten.
• PowerShell scripts can query event logs remotely, but they return raw event data with no grouping, no anomaly detection, no alerting, and no audit trail of who ran the query.
• Compliance reporting against seven frameworks using native tools requires custom scripting that must be maintained with every policy change.

ADAudit Plus replaces this manual process with centralized collection, pre-configured reports, and automated alerting, all verified against the event data from every DC in scope.