Monitor and Audit Unauthorized Active Directory Change
Minimize the risk associated with unauthorized change in Active Directory
As Active Directory has increasingly become the central data store for business critical and sensitive user data, the need to effectively and efficiently monitor and audit change in Active Directory has never been more important. Your ability to minimize the risk of a data breach or an insider attack depends entirely on your ability to rapidly detect unauthorized or unmanaged change. The longer a change goes undetected, the more likely it will have a damaging business impact.
To protect business-critical and sensitive data, you need to eliminate unauthorized and unintended change and efficiently audit change to meet regulatory mandates.
To effectively monitor and audit unauthorized change in Active Directory, you need:
- Quick detection and alerting on unauthorized change.
- Assessment of compliance with policies, regulations, and standards.
- Reduced workload of IT auditors and other involved personnel.
- To leverage existing infrastructure whenever possible.
- An accurate assessment of security posture.
- Real-time monitoring and continuous auditing.
- Scalability in large, distributed Active Directory environments.
- Insight into different types of change.
Active Directory Change Management with NetIQ
NetIQ® Change Guardian™ for Active Directory provides real-time monitoring and alerting of change in your Active Directory environment. In addition, powerful auditing and reporting capabilities quickly and clearly demonstrate if the change was made within or outside of your change process and the level of importance of the change. This helps to ensure that changes to your production infrastructure are authorized, tested, and approved. It also helps you to quickly identify unauthorized change and minimize the risk of business exposure.
As a leader in Security Information and Event Management, NetIQ's change management solutions for Active Directory integrate with our market-leading security products to enable the rapid detection of changes, especially privileged-user activity, and help you more easily identify insider attacks before they cause significant damage.
