Why do you need to audit your domain controller?

  • Track all activities

    Complete auditing of your domain controllers lets you view user logon activities and modifications made to configuration objects and Group Policy Objects (GPOs). Any unwarranted changes in them should be detected, since these events hold the key to your AD. 

  • Spot potential security threats

    Logon auditing on domain controllers helps you keep track of users and spot any suspicious behavior. By monitoring user logons, AD object changes, GPO changes, permission changes, etc., you can quickly spot security threats like privilege escalation.

  • Auditing using the native AD tools

    Although native tools let you audit your domain controllers, making sense of cluttered event logs is cumbersome. Adding to this, storage limitations in native tools hinder investigations and compliance audits due to events being overwritten.

  • Fulfill compliance regulations

    Compliance regulations like the GDPR, SOX, HIPAA, and PCI DSS require you to show audit trails of domain policy changes, GPO modifications, administrative user actions, and more. Compiling these logs from the Event Viewer or using PowerShell scripts is both  difficult and time-consuming. 

What ADAudit Plus can do.

ADAudit Plus helps you perform real-time AD auditing to monitor changes made in your domain controller. Using its purpose built out-of-the box report, you can effortlessly fulfill industry compliance regulations. It facilitates archiving of log data locally with no upper-limit on the archival lifetime.  

Change monitoring on AD objects

AD objects like users, groups, computers, and OUs are continuously monitored to audit all changes made to them. With a single click, you can see the who, what, when, and where of all these changes.

  • Group Management
  • OU Management
  • Administrative User Actions
Group Management
OU Management
Administrative User Actions
GPO change auditing

Any modification made to your GPOs and GPO links are presented with details that reveal any potential rogue user trying to hamper with your network's security.

  • Password Policy changes
  • GPO Link changes
Password Policy changes
GPO Link changes
Configuration auditing and permission changes.

Any modifications made to the schema, flexible single master operation (FSMO) roles, or configurations are audited to ensure that your forests and domains remain secure.

  • Domain-Level Permission Changes
  • Schema Changes
  • FSMO Role Changes
Domain-Level Permission Changes
Schema Changes
FSMO Role Changes
User logon auditing, and fulfilling compliance audits.

User logon activities are fully audited to help with understanding the cause of logon failure, analyzing account lockouts, and measuring employee productivity. Out-of-the-box reports for compliance audits are available to ensure your organization is compliant with industry regulations like SOX, HIPAA, FISMA, and the GDPR. 

  • Compliance reports
  • User Logon Activity
  • User Work Hours
Compliance reports
User Logon Activity
User Work Hours

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What our customers say

ADAudit Plus solved our challenge of tracking login information [based on the] location of field workers. Additionally, we now know who made what incorrect/accidental AD changes.

Shannon Steffenson Network systems manager, Seattle Housing Authority

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

Huseyin Akbaba Information Technologies, Rmk Marine

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

Matt Cranson Network Administrator, Morbark, Inc.

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