Optimizing Active Directory reporting efficiency: How Log360 transformed PSI’s IT landscape

Business challenges:

PSI encountered several challenges before implementing Log360:

• Meeting strict government compliance requirements for logging, storing, and aggregating Active Directory (AD) event data.
• Inadequate granularity, ease of use, and reporting features in the firm's previous solution, Graylog.
• Difficulty in automating key processes like report generation and alerting.
• Limited visibility into login-related activities and log data aggregation.

PSI's transition to Log360:

After evaluating several solutions, PSI chose Log360 for its advanced features and cost-effective pricing. Log360’s ability to provide granular insights, simplify report scheduling, and aggregate data across systems made it the ideal solution to address PSI’s challenges. Its dashboards, reporting tools, and seamless integration capabilities allowed the IT team to transition smoothly from the firm's previous setup.

For PSI, a few key features were instrumental in achieving compliance and enhancing operational efficiency, including Log360’s superior usability, detailed reporting features, and centralized log management.

Solution:

Log360's most game-changing enhancement was the automation of log management tasks. The solution sent scheduled reports directly to the IT team, providing them with timely insights into critical activities like user account modifications, group membership changes, privilege escalations, and policy updates within AD, along with VPN logins and file access events. The platform’s dashboards offered real-time visibility into PSI's IT environment, enabling quicker and more informed decision-making.

PSI also saw a marked improvement in threat detection. Log360’s monitoring capabilities helped identify malicious web traffic, failed VPN login attempts, and unusual OWA login activities. These detections allowed the team to act swiftly, blocking suspicious usernames and IP addresses before the threats could escalate into major incidents.

The solution's role in compliance auditing was equally impactful. By providing detailed logs and comprehensive reports, Log360 simplified the auditing process, enabling PSI to meet regulatory requirements with ease. This streamlined approach saved time and reduced the risk of non-compliance penalties.

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About Log360

Log360 is a unified SIEM solution with integrated DLP and CASB capabilities that detects, prioritizes, investigates and responds to security threats. Vigil IQ, the solution's TDIR module, combines threat intelligence, an analytical Incident Workbench, ML-based anomaly detection, and rule-based attack detection techniques to detect sophisticated attacks, and it offers an incident management console for effectively remediating detected threats. Log360 provides holistic security visibility across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid networks with its intuitive and advanced security analytics and monitoring capabilities. For more information about Log360, visit manageengine.com/log-management/ and follow the LinkedIn page for regular updates.