Network Auditing

Active Administrator Listing updated: January 23, 2008

The main purpose of Active Directory is to provide central authentication and authorization services. Active Directory has native tools for basic administration, but, lack enterprise-class management capabilities that give administrators the ability to view, audit and report on the ever-changing state of their Active Directory infrastructure.

Active Administrator is an Active Directory management and auditing solution that takes over where the management tools supplied with Windows leave off. Active Administrator, the Active Directory solution from ScriptLogic provides administrators the ability to establish, view and enforce delegated security throughout Active Directory management, perform Group Policy management including Group Policy reporting and Resultant Set of Policies (RSoP) as well as auditing and reporting of changes within Active Directory.

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  • Users' Rating: 3.82 [17 votes] - Vote
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Admin Report Kit for Windows Server (ARK) Listing updated: March 4, 2004

Admin Report Kit for Windows Server (ARK) is general-purpose reporting tool for the Microsoft Enterprise Network. ARK presents information about logical entities present in the Microsoft Enterprise Network, in the form of Trees, Tables and Views. All categories of information reported by ARK are available across the domains in the enterprise. This means that information may be viewed and reported for several systems in the enterprise simultaneously, from a single location.

ARK collects configuration information about Windows domains & servers, users/groups policies, events, services, installed applications, shares, printers, data sources etc. and reports them, in a given format, to System Administrators.

ARK supports current versions of Microsoft Windows Server (NT/2000/2003) and localized versions of Windows Server, including German, Spanish and French.
  • Users' Rating: 4.35 [17 votes] - Vote
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Altiris SecurityExpressions Listing updated: February 2, 2009

SecurityExpressions allows organizations to audit and discover problems without impacting staff productivity. The ability to continually manage security configurations from definition, evaluation, remediation through monitoring is what distinguishes SecurityExpressions from other solutions.

Key Features & Benefits: Establish baseline configurations from best practices; Evaluate IT controls against government and regulatory requirements; Identify systems that deviate from established baselines; Remediate issues within ITIL-compliant change processes; and more...

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  • Users' Rating: 3.29 [14 votes] - Vote
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ChangeAuditor Listing updated: November 23, 2006

ChangeAuditor tracks your critical Active Directory, File Server, and Exchange configuration changes. ChangeAuditor helps you to understand exactly what type of change occurred and the most critical details about each change. ChangeAuditor identifies changes (OUs, Users, Computers, Groups, GPO, Domains and DNS) as they occur and provides the "5 Ws" for each change. Who made the change, What the change was, including new and previous values, When the change was made, Where the change was made, Why the change was made.
  • Users' Rating: 4.6 [35 votes] - Vote
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ChangeAuditor for Active Directory Listing updated: October 30, 2009

Quest ChangeAuditor for Active Directory tracks, audits, reports, and alerts on vital configuration changes—in real-time and without the overhead of native auditing. You will instantly know who made what change when, where and why. Plus, get the original and current values for fast troubleshooting. You can then automatically generate intelligent, in-depth forensics for auditors and management—and reduce the risks associated with day-to-day modifications. ChangeAuditor helps you prevent unauthorized changes from disrupting your Windows environment.
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CI Discovery Listing updated: July 4, 2004

Comprehensive network inventory and computer auditing software for IT departments. No client installation required to audit targeted computers with the Remote module. Extensive hardware, software and system configuration data captured for both workstations and servers. Features include on-board reports and a "Change Tracking" tool which easily identifies changes to a workstation between two audits. The "Hardware and Software Master" compiles an accurate inventory of all hardware and software used across your enterprise. Use the Hotfix Detector to ensure that the lastest MS security updates have been installed. Features such as "Product Keys" captures license information for use in enforcing software license compliance. Schedule audits for ease and consistency of data collection.
  • Users' Rating: 2 [3 votes] - Vote
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DomainMonitor Listing updated: February 27, 2004

Winzero's DomainMonitor enables administrators, security officers and helpdesk staff track network management practices by auditing changes in the enterprise for users, groups OUs, computers published shares, published printers and server share permissions. Windows NT, 2000 and 2003 are supported.
  • Users' Rating: 4.2 [20 votes] - Vote
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DSRAZOR for Windows Listing updated: June 16, 2006

When you use DSRAZOR you will be able to interact with your Windows and Active Directory environments. Discover security weaknesses, document objects, manage attributes and delegate duties.

A summary of features includes: Delegate your helpdesk activities with point solutions that require minimal training and reduce "user error"; Customize applets to perform those duties you require, modify ready-to-run applets; Increase the security and performance of your network with queries targeting the discovery of weaknesses; Assess and document Active Directory security; Assess and document Windows File System security; Manage users, groups, files and more.

Exchange management features: Adding Exchange mailbox to existing user accounts; Adding Exchange mailbox to user accounts during import; Deleting Exchange mailbox from selected user accounts; Smart Delete of user account, home directory structure and Exchange mailbox; Quick Search to find user accounts with or without Exchange mailbox; Document Exchange mailbox GUIDs; Document Exchange storage group and mailbox store file paths and more.
  • Users' Rating: 3 [4 votes] - Vote
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Ecora Auditor Professional Listing updated: May 31, 2008

Auditor Professional enables centralized management, auditing, reporting and change identification of configurations in virtually all operating systems, database management systems, applications and network devices in physical and virtual environments. Currently used by over 800 organizations worldwide. Auditor Professional collects tens of thousands of asset, security and configuration settings into a configuration database for reporting, auditing, baselining and change tracking.
  • Users' Rating: 3 [2 votes] - Vote
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Enterprise AdminGuard Listing updated: February 2, 2009

Enterprise AdminGuard (EAG) facilitates the capture and review of system administration activities. This product empowers organizations to audit and safeguard multiple Windows servers from potential misuse by administrators. EAG establishes accountability among system administrators, operators and database administrators, by recording every mouse click and key-stroke, and furnishing exhaustive session-based audit trails. EAG acts as a virtual video recorder to allow all activities performed by powerful administrators to be recorded and reviewed by an independent third party.

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  • Users' Rating: 4.2 [10 votes] - Vote
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