ManageEngine,
the real-time IT management company, today announced the addition of
real-time change auditing for Windows Active Directory in ADAudit
Plus, the company’s Windows server environment auditing and
reporting software. Available immediately, the new feature provides
administrators with real-time email alerts when critical and
unauthorized changes are made to AD. Similarly, administrators can view
a real-time, live feed of alerts in the ADAudit Plus console along with
a thorough analysis of “who did what, when and from where” in the
solution’s 200+ pre-configured audit reports.
ManageEngine is demonstrating ADAudit Plus as part of its identity and
access management solutions and exhibiting the rest of its IT management
portfolio in Hall 7 Booth A 7-10 at GITEX
Technology Week 2014, being held October 12-16, 2014, at the Dubai
World Trade Centre, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Active Directory is the central data store for sensitive user data and
critical business information. In turn, companies need to secure the
data and access permissions stored in Active Directory, but the
inadequate monitoring and reporting capabilities of native Active
Directory management tools make that security impossible to maintain. In
short, those native tools do not provide a continuous, uninterrupted
view of Active Directory. Instead, they capture brief slices of time
that correspond to a specific reporting period. Consequently, the native
tools leave Active Directory unmonitored and unprotected for long
periods during which a single, undetected change can have a severe
impact on the organization’s data and reputation.
“ADAudit Plus real-time change monitoring and notification is like
installing a surveillance camera inside a domain controller and
designating an acute observer, who knows well the impact of every
change, to man it 24x7,” said Balasubramanian Palani, product manager at
ManageEngine. “The tool’s built-in and configurable alerts fire the
moment some critical change is detected, which provides administrators
all the head start required to successfully preclude an intrusion or
remediate an untoward change.”
Secure Administration and Data with Continuous, Real-Time Auditing
To maintain a secure and compliant Windows environment, the real-time
change auditing feature in ADAudit Plus gives administrators the power
to control and monitor each and every critical and unauthorized change
and quickly roll back in case of an erroneous or unauthorized
modification.
For example, ADAudit Plus now continuously monitors and immediately
reports changes and modifications such as adding or accidentally
deleting users, password setting changes, account setting changes, any
change among the 6,000+ group policy settings, giving group or user
permissions, user logon failures and many more.
The continuous auditing and reporting of AD changes offers
administrators the insight to understand, foresee potential security
risks and take preventive actions in time and thus administer strong and
safe organizational security. Not only does it indicate that the
integrity of information can be evaluated at any given point of time, it
also means that the information is able to be verified constantly for
errors, fraud and inefficiencies, all of which ensure a detailed audit.
Pricing and Availability
ADAudit Plus build 4651 is available immediately. In addition to a fully
functional, 30-day trial version, ADAudit Plus is available as a Free
Edition, Standard Edition and Professional Edition. The Standard Edition
starts at $495 per year for two domain controllers, and the Professional
Edition starts at $795 per year for two domain controllers. ADAudit Plus
comes as a single download file for all editions and is available for
download at http://www.manageengine.com/products/active-directory-audit/download.html.