Review of Netwrix Change Auditing Software. What is it? It is a change and configuration auditing...

Review of NetwrixChange Auditing Software

What is it? It is a change and configuration auditing software.

Ability to automatically track configuration changes to:

Active Directory

Microsoft Exchange

Windows Servers

Group Policy

File servers

Microsoft SQL Server

SharePoint

VMware

Ability to track file changes

Files on file servers

SharePoint

NetApp Filer

EMC Storage

Netwrix Auditor

Other tools included:

User Activity Recording

Inactive User Tracking

Password Expiration Alerting

What is it?Netwrix Auditor

Netwrix Auditor

Meet compliance requirements for auditors

What changed

When was it changed

Who changed it

Peace of mind

Receive immediate notifications of critical changes

Ability to trace changes made

Rollback capability

Netwrix gives the ability to easily rollback changes to Active Directory

Files changes can also be rolled back if your have volume shad copy enabled.

Why?

Netwrix AuditorHow?

Netwrix Auditor for Active Directory

Active Directory configuration, Group Policies, password expirations and inactive users

Netwrix Auditor for ExchangeExchange configuration, mailboxes, permissions and mailbox access

Netwrix Auditor for File ServersPermissions and access on Windows, EMC Storage and NetApp Filers

Netwrix Auditor for SharePoint SharePoint farm configurations, security and content

Netwrix Auditor for SQL Server SQL configurations and security

Netwrix Auditor for VMware VMware vSphere and ESX configuration

Netwrix Auditor for Windows Server

Windows configuration, registry, services, and more, including user activity video recording

Purchase the components you need. License based on number of users.

http://www.netwrix.com/ad_audit.html

http://www.netwrix.com/ad_audit.html

http://www.netwrix.com/exchange_reporting.html

http://www.netwrix.com/file_server_auditing.html

http://www.netwrix.com/sharepoint_reporting.html

http://www.netwrix.com/sql_server_audit_reporting.html

http://www.netwrix.com/vmware_reporting.html

http://www.netwrix.com/windows_server_audit.html

http://www.netwrix.com/windows_server_audit.html

Netwrix AuditorHow?

Hardware/Software requirements:

Windows 7 or 2008 or later (we are running Windows 7)

8 GB RAM (we have 16GB)

Intel Core 2 Duo 2x 64bit, 3GHz (ours is a corei5 3.2GHz)

500MB for install

1GB for audit archive

500MB for SQL Server DB (we are using an existing SQL 2012 server)

Netwrix AuditorOur Experience with Netwrix

We are using the following components:

Auditor for Active Directory

Auditor for Group Policy

Auditor for Exchange

Auditor for Windows

Auditor for File Servers

Total cost (based on 205 AD users) $2,500

Annual maintenance $625

Netwrix AuditorAt a glance

The interface


Configuration


Reports


It has a subscription feature


Example – Daily Email Summaries


Real-time Alerts and ability to create your own


Example – Alert Email Notification

Netwrix AuditorOur Experience with Netwrix- the Good

Ability to drill down on dashboards


Tons of Pre-built Reports >200

The ability to run reports across modules

Other useful reports


Real-time Alerts and ability to create your own

Netwrix AuditorOur Experience with Netwrix- the Bad

Lots of information generated from normal server processes can be a bit overwhelming.

Netwrix AuditorOur Experience with Netwrix- the Bad

Report creation does not have the most intuitive interface

Netwrix AuditorConclusion

Buy, Try, or Don’t Buy?

Buy

Questions?

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