Active Directory Security Audit Challenges
Active Directory plays a critical role in security across the network raising a number of common concerns:
- The technical staff needs to have full rights throughout the network in order to effectively manage the environment. However, according to policy, some information should be protected even from the technical staff.
- Do you have the tools to ensure that key corporate information is protected even from privileged users and technical staff?
- Many technical staff members aren't familiar with the day-to-day tasks and responsibilities of other members, making it impossible for them to accurately report on changes to the environment.
- Can you accurately report on who makes changes to your Active Directory environment?
- Managing a historical view of changes to user accounts, group memberships, and file system ACLs are extremely difficult.
- Can you view and manage the historical view of changes to user accounts, group memberships and ACLs in your environment?
- There is no simple way to detect dormant or unused accounts, or to detect when inappropriate rights have been granted via group memberships or ACLs.
- Can you prove that your environment doesn't have dormant accounts or other inappropriate rights granted?
- Non-technical personnel and executive management have no way of knowing when sensitive files have been accessed.
- Do you know when files containing sensitive information have been opened or changed?
Active Directory is a core component of information security.
And it's difficult to maintain proper security while enabling the
business to move quickly and adapt to changes.
Administrators often have too much control with no system of checks and balances.
That unchecked power presents risk for both the administrators and the
organizations that rely upon them.
Fortunately, NetVision addresses these problems with effective, easy-to-use and quick-to-implement
solutions that significantly reduce organizational risk and simplify compliance efforts.