Change Auditor for Exchange
Learn about Change Auditor for Exchange
Microsoft Exchange Server and Office 365 change auditing and activity reporting
Change Auditor for Exchange simplifies the audit process by tracking, auditing, reporting and alerting on Microsoft® Exchange Server and Office 365 Exchange Online configuration and permission changes in real time. To ensure Exchange and Office 365 compliance, you can automatically generate intelligent, in-depth reports, protecting you against policy violations and avoiding the risks and errors associated with day-to-day modifications. And, for fast troubleshooting, you always get the original and current values.
Change Auditor for Exchange audits all critical changes to Exchange and Exchange Online such as mailbox logins/access, non-owner mailbox activity, and permission changes. Make Exchange auditing easier than ever with real-time audits that protect your organization’s security policies as well as prevent compliance violations, system downtime and massive productivity loss.
Features
Correlate disparate IT data from numerous systems and devices into 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.
At-a-glance display
Tracks user and administrator activity with detailed information including who, what, when, where, which workstation and why for change events, plus original and current values for all changes.
Search and correlate activity across hybrid messaging environments to easily identify all activity regardless of whether it took place in the cloud or on premises.
Non-owner mailbox-access auditing
Provides a detailed view of any changes made to mailboxes that have been accessed by a non-owner, which enhances security and compliance.
Real-time alerts on the move
Sends critical change and pattern alerts to email and mobile devices to prompt immediate action, enabling you to respond faster to threats even while you're not on site.
Object protection
Prevents anyone but the mailbox owner from accessing sensitive or critical mailboxes.
Office 365 auditing
Audits administrator access and end user mailbox activity for mailboxes hosted on Office 365. Events are searchable and integrated into reports for a more complete picture of what’s happening in Exchange and Exchange Online.
Event timeline
Enables the viewing, highlighting and filtering of change events and the relation of other events over the course of time in chronological order across your Windows environment for better understanding and forensic analysis of those events and trends.
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Audits mobile devices using the Microsoft ActiveSync to track email and calendar access, device registration and more for on-premises Exchange.
Public folder support
Tracks changes made to Exchange public folders, which speeds troubleshooting and ensures compliance.
High-performance auditing engine
Removes auditing limitations and captures change information without the need for native audit logs, resulting in faster results and significant savings of storage resources.
Auditor-ready reporting
Generates comprehensive reports for best practices and regulatory compliance mandates for SOX, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, FISMA, GLBA and more.
Role-based access
Configures access so auditors can run searches and reports without making any configuration changes to the application, and without requiring the assistance and time of the administrator.
Web-based access with dashboard reporting
Searches from anywhere using a web browser and creates targeted dashboard reports to provide upper management and auditors with access to the information they need without having to understand architecture or administration.
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Alerts
Non-owner mailbox
Mailbox selection
Web-based event timeline
Role-based access
Object protection
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Specifications
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 2008 R2 SP3
- Microsoft SQL Server 2012 SP3
- Microsoft SQL Server 2014 SP2
- Microsoft SQL Server 2016 SP1
NOTE: Change Auditor does not support SQL high availability technology other than clusters.
- Operating system
Installation platforms (x64) supported up to the following versions:
- Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
- Windows Server 2012
- Windows Server 2012 R2
- Windows Server 2016
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, we strongly recommend:
- 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: 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 4.6.1
- 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.
Resources
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