Change Auditor for Active Directory
Monitor and secure AD with Active Directory auditing tools. Ensure the security, compliance and control of your hybrid AD environment with Change Auditor for Active Directory. Track, audit, report and alert on all key configuration changes and consolidate them in a single console — without the overhead of turning on Microsoft-provided auditing. Proactively protect objects and track all changes in real time with security threat monitoring.
Without effective Active Directory (AD) auditing tools, you will face AD issues that can result in unplanned and costly service disruptions and business-impairing network downtime. Harmful data breaches and non-compliance with GDPR, PCI, HIPAA, SOX and more can cause you to incur hefty costs as well. You need Active Directory security auditing that ensures you’re notified in real time of critical changes to AD, Azure AD and ADFS configuration. Change Auditor for Active Directory makes that all possible.
Hybrid AD auditing
Get a single, correlated view of all AD and Azure AD activity, with visibility of all changes whether on-prem or in the cloud.
Security threat monitoring
Audit and block exploits such as AD database copies via NinjaCopy and credential theft via unauthorized domain replication.
Object protection
Protect against changes to critical Active Directory objects, such as accidentally deleted OUs and modified GPO settings.
Normalized 5W audit details
Translate cryptic native logs into a simple, normalized format highlighting the who, what, when, where and workstation details and before and after values.
Account lockout
Capture the originating IP address/workstation name for account lockout events to simplify troubleshooting.
Real-time alerts on the move
Send critical change and pattern alerts to email and mobile devices to prompt immediate action, even while you're not on site.
SIEM integration
Integrate with SIEM solutions to forward Change Auditor events to Splunk, ArcSight, QRadar or any platform supporting Syslog.
Auditor-ready reporting
Generate comprehensive reports to support regulatory compliance mandates for GDPR, PCI DSS, HIPAA, FISMA / NIST, SOX, GLBA and more.
On Demand Audit Hybrid Suite for Office 365
With just a few clicks, you can pair Change Auditor for Active Directory and Change Auditor for Logon Activity with On Demand Audit to get a single, hosted view of all changes made across AD, Azure AD, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business and Teams. Simplify investigations with responsive search and interactive data visualization, and retain audit history for up to 10 years.
Features
Superior auditing engine
Remove auditing limitations and captures change information without the need for native audit logs, resulting in faster results and significant savings of storage resources.
Security threat timelines
View, highlight and filter change events and discover their relation to other threat events in chronological order across your AD and Azure AD environment for better forensic analysis and security incident response.
Related searches
This active directory auditing tool provide instant, one-click access to all information on the change you're viewing and all related events, such as what other changes came from specific users and workstations, eliminating additional guesswork and unknown security concerns.
AD-change rollback
Restore previous values on unauthorized, mistaken or improper changes with the click of a button, directly in the Change Auditor console, honoring the rights and privileges of the user requesting the rollback.
Quest InTrust integration
Integrate active directory auditing tools with Quest InTrust for 20:1 compressed event storage
and centralized native or third-party log collection, parsing and analysis with
alerting and automated response actions to suspicious events such as known
ransomware attacks or fishy PowerShell commands.
Improved security insights
Correlate disparate IT data from numerous systems and devices into IT Security Search, an interactive search engine for fast security incident response and forensic analysis. Include user entitlements and activity, event trends, suspicious patterns and more with rich visualizations and event timelines.
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Alerts
Alert on and monitor critical changes made to Active Directory.
Stevie Awards 2018 People’s Choice winner
In the 2018 Stevie Award’s People Choice awards, Change Auditor was voted best software and also won a Silver Stevie for best new product of 2018
Specifications
There are specific system requirements for the Change Auditor coordinator (server-side), Change Auditor client (client-side), Change Auditor agent (server-side), and the Change Auditor workstation and web client (optional components). For a full list of system requirements and required permissions for all components and target systems that can be audited by Change Auditor please refer to the Change Auditor Installation Guide.
The Change Auditor coordinator is responsible for fulfilling client and agent requests and for generating alerts.
- Processor
Quad core Intel® Core™ i7 equivalent or better
- Memory
Minimum: 8 GB RAM or better
Recommended: 32 GB RAM or better
- SQL Server
SQL databases supported up to the following versions:
- Microsoft SQL Server 2012 SP4
- Microsoft SQL Server 2014 SP3
- Microsoft SQL Server 2016 SP2
- Microsoft SQL Server 2017
- Microsoft SQL Server 2019
- Azure SQL Managed Instance (PaaS) with SQL authentication or Azure Active Directory authentication
NOTE: Performance may vary depending on network configuration, topology, and Azure SQL Managed Instance configuration.
NOTE: Change Auditor supports SQL AlwaysOn Availability Groups, SQL Clusters, and databases that have row and page compression applied.
- Operating system
Installation platforms (x64) supported up to the following versions:
- Windows Server 2012
- Windows Server 2012 R2
- Windows Server 2016
- Windows Server 2019
NOTE: Microsoft Windows Data Access Components (MDAC) must be enabled. (MDAC is part of the operating system and enabled by default.)
- Coordinator software and configuration
For the best performance, Quest strongly recommends:
- Install the Change Auditor coordinator on a dedicated member server.
- The Change Auditor database should be configured on a separate, dedicated SQL server instance.
NOTE: Microsoft ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server is required when the Change Auditor database resides on Azure SQL Managed Instance and Azure Active Directory authentication is selected.
NOTE: Do NOT pre-allocate a fixed size for the Change Auditor database.
In addition, the following software/configuration is required:
- The coordinator must have LDAP and GC connectivity to all domain controllers in the local domain and the forest root domain.
- x64 version of Microsoft’s .NET 4.7.1
- x64 version of Microsoft XML Parser (MSXML) 6.0
- x64 version of Microsoft SQLXML 4.0
- Coordinator footprint
- Estimated hard disk space used: 1 GB.
- Coordinator RAM usage is highly dependent on the environment, number of agent connections, and event volume.
- Estimated database size will vary depending on the number of agents deployed and audited events captured.
Additional Account Coordinator minimum permissions required, please see Change Auditor Installation Guide .
Resources
Change Auditor for Active Directory
Ensure security, compliance and control of AD and Azure AD.
Top 10 Active Directory Security Reports and Alerts You Need
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Five Ways to Improve Auditing of Your Hybrid Active Directory
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Integrated change auditing and event log management for strong security
This white paper explores how you can use Change Auditor and InTrust, either alone or in combination with your SIEM, to improve...
Retailer Ensures PCI DSS Compliance
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See how our Microsoft Platform Management solutions helped North Central Texas Council of Governments gain real-time control over...
Government healthcare agency ensures security and compliance
Learn how Quest Change Auditor helped Region Halland gain deep visibility into Active Directory and Azure AD.
Gartner Report: Protect, Detect and Recover From Ransomware
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Videos
Learn about Change Auditor for Active Directory
Learn how Change Auditor for Active Directory from Quest helps ensure the security, compliance and control of AD and Azure AD.
Change Auditor 7.1 – New Features
Explore Change Auditor’s new features, such as Golden Ticket detection & auditing Kerberos and NTLM authentication.
What is Quest Change Auditor and how does it compare to and complement Microsoft ATP and third-party...
Hear Quest product experts, Ghazwan Khairi, Bryan Patton and Robert Tovar discuss the real-time security and IT auditing of Change...
How to integrate Change Auditor with On Demand Audit
Learn how to integrate Change Auditor with On Demand Audit from Quest.
Change Auditor integration with SIEM solutions and Quest InTrust
See what's new in Change Auditor 7.0 including integration with SIEM solutions and Quest InTrust.
How to alert when a group membership changes in Change Auditor for Active Directory
This video demonstrates how to alert when a group membership changes within Change Auditor for Active Directory.
How to create a protection template for an Organizational Unit with Change Auditor for Active Directory
This video demonstrates how to create a protection template for an Organizational Unit with Change Auditor for Active Directory...
Blogs
View BlogsChange Auditor 7.1: What’s New
The Change Auditor for Logon Activity 7.1 update allows for auditing of Kerberos and NTLM authentications to promote better security and compliance. ...
Bryan Patton, CISSP
Quest Security Assessments Reveal Top 4 Issues in Active Directory: Groups and OSs (Part 3 of 3)
In the third and final part of this Active Directory security issues series, we take a look at the problems with Groups and Operating Systems (OSs). ...
Todd.Mera
CISA Office 365 Alert and 10 Security Actions to Take Now by Sean Metcalf (from our latest TEC Talk)
This blog post will outline the CISA alert, prior CISA advice for securing Office 365 and point you to a TEC Talk by Microsoft Certified Master Sean ...
Jennifer LuPiba
Workforce and IT refresher tips to avoid COVID-19 phishing attempts
Let no crisis go to waste This is the new mantra of every cyber criminal in the age of COVID-19. Around the globe, organizations are seeing an increase...
Jennifer LuPiba
The many colors of AD security – Microsoft Red Forest, orange forest, greenfield or blue?
Discover the different models of Active Directory (AD) security, including the Red Forest and Orange Forest models, Greenfield migrations and Blue Team.
Bryan Patton
Top 10 Security Events to Monitor in Azure AD and Office 365
Learn about 10 places in your cloud environment that log important audit events. See how native tools fall short of ensuring your auditing compliance.
Ian S. Lindsay