Pellegrini is an Italian contact catering company that provides vending machines, cleaning and integrated services, food supplies, and welfare services such as meal vouchers. They serve 45 million meals a year at various companies, religious communities…
Change Auditor’s much anticipated 7.1 release is here – and we’re excited. Change Auditor’s capabilities give customers the peace of mind they deserve, and the latest release further expands on these capabilities with new features added to Change Auditor…
Six Quest Microsoft Platform Management solutions just won honors in the 2018 Annual American Business Awards!
One of the seven Stevie Awards competitions, the American Business Awards are the nation’s premier business awards program. Over 200 professionals…
I’m excited to announce that Quest Software has been named the top winner in the 2018 People's Choice Stevie Awards for Favorite New Products! This category is a feature of The American Business Awards, the U.S.A.’s top business awards program…
Accounts with excess privileges is a common issue for today’s organizations. Scaling back these permissions is often a challenge. You need data to back up why a certain account is over privileged for its purpose within the organization. Change …
Established over 13 years ago, with more than 5,000 customers and 149 million users audited.
So it comes as no surprise that Quest® Change Auditor is a People’s Choice Stevie® Award winner.
The People’s Choice Stevie® Awards for Favorite…
Change Auditor 7.0 is now available for download as of May 23rd.
Look what's new:
Event forwarding to Splunk
Event forwarding to HP ArcSight, IBM QRadar (preview)
High availability of the Change Auditor database with SQL AlwaysOn
Support for…
For those who are unfamiliar with Change Auditor, it is the auditing solution offered by Quest. The solution offers a wide range of auditing capabilities to help provide a view into what changes are occurring within your environment. Unfortunately, the…
The Bad Rabbit ransomware cyber attack hit last week in Russia and Eastern Europe, targeting news media companies and some transportation companies such as Airport of Odessa in Ukraine. In a nutshell the tactic that bad guys are using is as old as WannaCry…
Currently 30% of companies in the United States are using the NIST Cybersecurity Framework to manage risks with projections of 50% by the year 2020 (https://iapp.org/news/a/the-future-of-the-nist-cybersecurity-framework/).
Quest has a broad portfolio…
In reviewing the DFS Cybersecurity regulation Section 500.02, I immediately began thinking of the NIST Framework. Section B has several subsections that map to NIST:
| Identify Risks | Identify |
| Defensive Infrastructure | Protect |
| Detect Cybersecurity… |
Understanding the architecture of a product is vital for a customer in deciding if it is a good fit for their organization. Over the years, we've seen debates on whether agent-based or agent-less solutions are a better fit for organizations. A decision…
First and foremost, we always recommend testing our products in a lab environment. Test in production at your own risk. We understand you want to get real data and it makes sense but testing in production comes with risks. Am I saying you should never…
Here are some of the questions I get about the Change Auditor database when visiting customers:
One of the tools that Active Directory administrators have to help mitigate brute force hacking attempts is the account lockout. Typically configured in a Group Policy, the account lockout policy tallies the number of failed authentication attempts for…
In my previous post, I touched on how you can identify users in AD with elevated rights. Now we need to determine if they're really necessary.
Step 2: Identifying what rights are needed for the job.
I can't begin to tell you how many companies that…
Modern security information and event management (SIEM) solutions can collected logs from every type of device including Active Directory (AD) so that companies can search through and analyze “everything”. The question we are often asked is…
Organizations exist either to generate revenue or to perform a service. The mere thought of securing an environment doesn’t exist until there is something of value to secure. Once you have gotten to that stage of an organizational lifecycle, people…
Are you maximizing your investment of Change Auditor for Windows File Servers? This award-winning solution helps you control and audit changes to Microsoft Windows file servers efficiently and cost-effectively. Change Auditor can also audit and secure…
Change Auditor leverages Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) for recording SQL events, the SQL startup flag t1906 instructs SQL Server to read the tracing templates stored in the “..\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL11.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\Binn\…
There are a lot of sharks swimming around your network. Most are friendly, but some are not. Can you tell the difference?
Fortunately, you…
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YES! It’s October, and while most of you are using your in-laws’ wardrobe to decorate the front yard for Halloween and scare off (youth) intruders, we thought we’d let you know it is also National…
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The Application User Interface is simply Role Based Access control to the Function and Features of the Change Auditor when using client, it restricts access to the client interface based on permission, it is also known as User Interface Authorization.
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