Active Directory Security and Administration
NetIQ Directory and Resource Administrator
Organizations increasingly depend on Microsoft Active Directory to centralize authentication and authorization and control user access to sensitive data. However, the lack of controls provided by native tools makes it difficult for any IT organization to securely administer Active Directory while efficiently facilitating business productivity.
- NetIQ Directory and Resource Adminstrator Web Console
NetIQ® Directory and Resource Administrator™ helps reduce the complexities and costs of managing Active Directory, while enforcing administrative controls and improving security and compliance. Specifically you can:
- Efficiently provision and de-provision users.
- Granularly control user and administrative access.
- Demonstrate and maintain compliance.
- Maintain data integrity and reduce data pollution.
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Improve Administration Efficiency
Administering Active Directory with native tools is complex and time consuming due to the lack of native controls. As a result, common administrative tasks are often performed by a small team of skilled personnel who have domain or enterprise administration privileges.
NetIQ Directory and Resource Administrator helps organizations efficiently administer Active Directory by providing granular delegation capabilities. This empowers administrators to delegate common and routine tasks, like password resets, to less skilled employees or the helpdesk. A task-centric Web console further enables easy access by help-desk users as well as enables user self-service.
Enhance Security
Native Active Directory administration tools lack an ability to customize user access based on job function. As a result, many organizations end up with a number of employees who have access to critical data that is not necessary to performing their job functions. This elevated access can quickly become a threat to security if that access is abused. Furthermore, a lack of native auditing makes it difficult to perform forensics and roll-back an unauthorized change in the event of a security incident.
NetIQ Directory and Resource Administrator helps organizations improve their security posture by granularly controlling administrative access based on the user's need. Specifically, it eliminates the ability to view unauthorized materials if the user has not been granted access. Dual-key security also prevents unauthorized use of privilege by requiring two administrators to confirm a change. Comprehensive audit logs of activity enable quick research and resolution of a security event.
Streamline Compliance Auditing and Reporting
Industry and governmental regulations focus on enforcing controls to protect critical data like health care, financial, customer, or employee information. These regulations also require organizations to store log information about access to that critical data for an extended period of time. This puts a burden on organizations not only to implement secure processes but also to document and maintain records of those processes.
NetIQ Directory and Resource Administrator helps organizations simplify the burden of maintaining and achieving compliance by auditing all administrative activity and compressing and storing tamper-resistant audit logs. These comprehensive audit logs provide information on who accessed data, what data was accessed, when the access occurred, and where the data was stored.
The NetIQ Difference-Secure and Efficient Active Directory Administration
NetIQ Directory and Resource Administrator provides the granular control needed to reduce the costs, and often the complexities, of administering Active Directory-while improving the security of your IT infrastructure. Your ability to control administrative privilege on a granular level enables you to drastically reduce the number of users with elevated access to the sensitive business information you store in Active Directory. With the robust auditing and reporting capabilities of NetIQ Directory and Resource Administrator, you can quickly access key information about your business and provide meaningful reports to necessary stakeholders.
