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Windows Compliance and IT Governance Solutions

Assess, Audit, Alert and Remediate IT Compliance Issues

Quest compliance and IT governance solutions provide assessment, auditing, alerting and remediation to reduce risk and maintain and prove compliance in your Windows infrastructure. With Quest, you can take control of your environment to:

  • Gain visibility into your environment's current state
  • Track changes against a baseline state
  • Prevent changes made to critical systems
  • Remediate problems before they get out of control
  • Satisfy e-discovery requests


Already know which product will simplify your work? Review this list to find it – and browse related products.

Review the capability categories below to find a solution for your specific IT challenges.

Assess

Get the visibility you need to assess the current state of your environment. Then compare changes against a known baseline/expected state for improved governance and compliance.

Audit/Alert

Detect critical changes in real time and run forensic analysis reports to improve your organization’s security and compliance posture.

Remediate

Reduce risk by providing preventative controls to prevent changes from taking place and to address issues before they arise – or respond quickly when they do.

Messaging Data Archiving & e-Discovery

Archive messaging data and respond to e-discovery requests and internal investigations with Quest solutions.

Browse the technology platform categories below to find solutions for your unique IT challenges.

Assess

Get the visibility you need to assess the current state of your environment. Then compare changes against a known baseline/expected state for improved governance and compliance.

  • Access Manager
    Quest Access Manager controls user and group access to resources throughout the Windows enterprise and NAS devices in order to meet security and compliance requirements, control operational costs and optimize infrastructure performance.
  • Enterprise Security Reporter
    Enterprise Security Reporter provides the administrator with tools to compare, analyze, query and report on the security and configuration of the network, and includes customizable reports in eight file formats.
  • Reporter
    Reporter helps administrators quickly identify trends and correlations and then rapidly resolve issues and make strategic and tactical decisions that involve the security of their Active Directory and Windows environment.

Active Directory Assessment

Control security and policy management, plan and audit your Windows infrastructure, and simplify discovery and reporting with our solutions for Active Directory. Quest helps you speed time to resolution with action-enabled reporting. Take advantage of automated data collection as well as report generation and delivery to dramatically increase productivity.

  • MessageStats
    Quest MessageStats provides a single solution to reduce the complexity of email reporting and analysis across legacy and newly implemented platforms.
  • Security Explorer
    Security Explorer is a graphical solution for real-time management of access controls and security on files and folders, SharePoint, SQL Servers, Exchange and workstations across the enterprise.

Exchange & OCS/Lync Assessment

Accelerate audits by providing regulation-specific and internal control reports and enable appropriate access to business managers, administrators, legal and human resources staff. Quest also provides real-time management of access controls and security with a graphical interface.

  • Site Administrator for SharePoint
    Understand, manage and secure your SharePoint environment and empower business content owners with Site Administrator for SharePoint's security trimmed, centralized management, security and reporting.

SharePoint Assessment

Better understand your SharePoint environment by identifying all SharePoint servers and sites across your network – even those you didn’t know existed. With Quest, you can Quickly search for users and access rights across the entire environment, including those granted permissions via SharePoint groups or Active Directory, and then modify rights from within the search results.

Audit/Alert

Detect critical changes in real time and run forensic analysis reports to improve your organization’s security and compliance posture.

  • Active Administrator
    Active Administrator is an enterprise solution focused on streamlining Active Directory security and Group Policy Management.
  • ChangeAuditor for Active Directory
    ChangeAuditor for AD generates intelligent, in-depth forensics for auditors and management—and reduces the risks associated with day-to-day modifications.
  • ChangeAuditor for LDAP
    ChangeAuditor for LDAP translates query data into the simple terms of “Who, What, When, Where and originating Workstation," saving you the time you once spent digging for more details.
  • InTrust

    InTrust securely collects, stores, reports and alerts on event data from Windows, Unix and Linux systems, helping you comply with external regulations, internal policies and security best practices.

Active Directory Auditing & Alerting

Respond quickly to compliance issues with Active Directory solutions that provide regulation-specific tracking, reporting, and alerting. Plus, you can significantly reduce IT costs by automating the collection of event data and eliminating the overhead of native auditing. We also offer broad Active Directory management through a single product and cloud-based Windows log management.

  • ChangeAuditor for Exchange
    ChangeAuditor for Exchange audits all critical changes to Exchange including administrative groups, mailbox policies and public and private information store auditing.
  • MessageStats
    Quest MessageStats provides a single solution to reduce the complexity of email reporting and analysis across legacy and newly implemented platforms.

Exchange & OCS/Lync Auditing & Alerting

Proactively track, audit, report and alert on Exchange configuration and permission changes, including critical changes to administrative groups, mailbox policies, distribution list changes, and non-owner mailbox access. With Quest, you can also accelerate audits by providing regulation-specific and internal control reports and enable appropriate access to business managers, administrators, legal and human resources staff.

  • ChangeAuditor for SharePoint
    ChangeAuditor for SharePoint tracks, audits, reports and alerts on all critical SharePoint changes, turning information into intelligent, in-depth forensics.
  • Site Administrator for SharePoint
    Understand, manage and secure your SharePoint environment and empower business content owners with Site Administrator for SharePoint's security trimmed, centralized management, security and reporting.

SharePoint Auditing & Alerting

Track user activity and security modifications across sites and site collections, and determine the “who, what, when, where and why” of SharePoint actions to maintain user, content and configuration compliance. You can also search for users and access rights across the entire environment. Quest solutions simplify your auditing tasks and minimize the risks to your business-critical information.

Windows File Server Auditing & Alerting

Simplify audits with real-time alerts and forensic reporting that tell you the “who, what, when, where and why” of changes made to Windows file servers.

Remediate

Reduce risk by providing preventative controls to prevent changes from taking place and to address issues before they arise – or respond quickly when they do.

  • Active Administrator
    Active Administrator is an enterprise solution focused on streamlining Active Directory security and Group Policy Management.
  • ActiveRoles Server

    ActiveRoles Server provides out-of-the-box user and group account management, strictly enforced administrator-based role security, day-to-day identity administration and built-in auditing and reporting for Windows-centric environments.

  • ChangeAuditor for Active Directory
    ChangeAuditor for AD generates intelligent, in-depth forensics for auditors and management—and reduces the risks associated with day-to-day modifications.
  • Security Explorer
    Security Explorer is a graphical solution for real-time management of access controls and security on files and folders, SharePoint, SQL Servers, Exchange and workstations across the enterprise.

Active Directory Prevention & Remediation

Be notified anytime a change is made to an expected state. Then simply compare current and previous states of Active Directory to quickly find and undo unauthorized changes. With Quest, you can prevent unauthorized access to your organization’s valuable data with our solutions for multifactor authentication, provisioning, and administration for Active Directory and beyond. Our tools give you real-time and automated permission management to help you quickly and efficiently secure your systems.

  • ChangeAuditor for Exchange
    ChangeAuditor for Exchange audits all critical changes to Exchange including administrative groups, mailbox policies and public and private information store auditing.

Exchange & OCS/Lync Remediation

Be notified anytime a change is made to an expected state. Then simply compare current and previous states of Exchange & OCS/Lync to quickly find and undo unauthorized changes.

  • ChangeAuditor for SharePoint
    ChangeAuditor for SharePoint tracks, audits, reports and alerts on all critical SharePoint changes, turning information into intelligent, in-depth forensics.

SharePoint Remediation

Be notified anytime a change is made to an expected state. Then simply compare current and previous states of SharePoint to quickly find and undo unauthorized changes.

Messaging Data Archiving & e-Discovery

Archive messaging data and respond to e-discovery requests and internal investigations with Quest solutions.

  • Archive Manager
    Quest Archive Manager is email archiving software that captures, retains, preserves and searches for email.
  • Hosted Email Archiving
    Short description: Automate policy enforcement, streamline message review and improve compliance with email archiving solutions.
  • Recovery Manager for Exchange
    Quest Recovery Manager for Exchange makes Exchange recovery and email discovery fast and easy – with no need for a dedicated recovery server.

Email Archiving & e-Discovery

Archive email and attachments either on-premises or in a central, secure repository to meet compliance and e-discovery needs in accordance with your corporate retention policies. Retrieve messaging data quickly to satisfy legal requests.

Email Encryption/Data-Leak Prevention

Implement data protection policies using data-leak prevention (DLP) and email encryption. 

  • Virtual Compliance Officer
    Automatically prioritize, categorize and escalate suspicious emails to save time and money for email compliance.

Email Supervision & Policy Management

Scan every message as it enters the archive, and take the action specified by your organization's unique rules. Rules can be based on virtually any criteria (sender, recipient, subject, etc.).

  • Instant Message Archiving
    Capture, search, retain, supervise and produce instant messages to meet compliance, security and management requirements for organizations of all sizes.

Instant Messaging Archiving & e-Discovery

Capture, search, retain, supervise and produce instant messages (IM) to achieve compliance, security and management requirements. Flexible deployment options support your own IM solution, hosted IM or Quest IM.

Mobile Message Archiving & e-Discovery

Capture, index and preserve multiple forms of mobile device communication.

  • Social Media Archiving
    Embrace social networking while supporting your social media compliance initiatives, including FINRA.

Social Media Archiving & e-Discovery

Embrace social networking while supporting your compliance initiatives. All messages are captured, preserved and indexed in a secure archive for easy search and recovery.

Governance & Compliance

Quest IT governance and compliance solutions provide assessment, auditing, alerting and remediation for Windows platforms to reduce risk and maintain and prove compliance.

  • Active Administrator
    Active Administrator is an enterprise solution focused on streamlining Active Directory security and Group Policy Management.
  • ActiveRoles Server

    ActiveRoles Server provides out-of-the-box user and group account management, strictly enforced administrator-based role security, day-to-day identity administration and built-in auditing and reporting for Windows-centric environments.

  • ChangeAuditor for Active Directory
    ChangeAuditor for AD generates intelligent, in-depth forensics for auditors and management—and reduces the risks associated with day-to-day modifications.
  • Enterprise Security Reporter
    Enterprise Security Reporter provides the administrator with tools to compare, analyze, query and report on the security and configuration of the network, and includes customizable reports in eight file formats.
  • InTrust

    InTrust securely collects, stores, reports and alerts on event data from Windows, Unix and Linux systems, helping you comply with external regulations, internal policies and security best practices.

  • Reporter
    Reporter helps administrators quickly identify trends and correlations and then rapidly resolve issues and make strategic and tactical decisions that involve the security of their Active Directory and Windows environment.

Active Directory

Inventory your infrastructure, audit changes over time, prevent unauthorized changes in real time and store and report on all change activity from a single interface.

  • Archive Manager
    Quest Archive Manager is email archiving software that captures, retains, preserves and searches for email.
  • ChangeAuditor for Exchange
    ChangeAuditor for Exchange audits all critical changes to Exchange including administrative groups, mailbox policies and public and private information store auditing.
  • Email Encryption/Data-Leak Prevention

    Implement data-leak prevention (DLP) and email encryption to protect data, secure email and meet compliance obligations.

  • Hosted Email Archiving
    Short description: Automate policy enforcement, streamline message review and improve compliance with email archiving solutions.
  • Instant Message Archiving
    Capture, search, retain, supervise and produce instant messages to meet compliance, security and management requirements for organizations of all sizes.
  • Mobile Message Archiving
    Monitor and archive mobile text messages for compliance and e-discovery requests.
  • Social Media Archiving
    Embrace social networking while supporting your social media compliance initiatives, including FINRA.
  • Virtual Compliance Officer
    Automatically prioritize, categorize and escalate suspicious emails to save time and money for email compliance.

Exchange, OCS/Lync, Office 365 & Other

Take the stress out of audits. Produce easy-to-understand reports, audit mailbox access, as well as retain and dispose of email to meet regulatory compliance mandates. Also establish and enforce permissions and alert to changes in real time.

  • ChangeAuditor for SharePoint
    ChangeAuditor for SharePoint tracks, audits, reports and alerts on all critical SharePoint changes, turning information into intelligent, in-depth forensics.
  • Site Administrator for SharePoint
    Understand, manage and secure your SharePoint environment and empower business content owners with Site Administrator for SharePoint's security trimmed, centralized management, security and reporting.

SharePoint

Track user activity and security modifications across sites and site collections, and determine the “who, what, when, where and why” of SharePoint actions to maintain user, content and configuration compliance. You can also search for users and access rights across the entire environment. Quest solutions simplify your auditing tasks and minimize the risks to your business-critical information.

Windows File Servers

Simplify audits with real-time alerts and forensic reporting that tell you the “who, what, when, where and why” of changes made to Windows file servers.

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