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Change Auditor for Logon Activity

How to audit user network logon activity in Change Auditor for Logon Activity

Get answers to critical security and compliance questions

Promote better security, auditing and compliance in your organization by capturing, alerting and reporting on all user logon/logoff and sign-in activity, both on premises and in the cloud. Change Auditor for Logon Activity uses a centralized view to deliver:

System-wide visibility
Consolidated auditing reports
User activity analyses
Automated collection of logon/logoff and sign-in events
Calculated user session events

Get the answers to all your critical security and compliance questions, and simplify IT governance now.

Features
Specifications
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Features

Proactive threat detection with Change Auditor Threat Detection

Simplify user threat detection by analyzing anomalous activity to rank the highest risk users in your organization, identify potential threats and reduce the noise from false positive alerts.

Hybrid environment auditing with a correlated view

Enables auditing of Active Directory user logon/logoff and Azure AD sign-in activity from a single, correlated view, ensuring visibility into all user activity in your environment, whether on-premises or in the cloud.

At-a-glance display

Tracks critical user and administrator logon activity with detailed information on who, what, when, where and from which workstation.

Security awareness

Reports on Active Directory user logons and logoffs by type (interactive, remote, local or network) and length of session to help identify suspicious activity.

Provides complete Azure AD sign-in information, such as which user is signing in, the IP and geographical origin (city, state, country) of the attempt, the application being authenticated to, whether the attempt was successful, and the reason for failure (if applicable).

Compliance-ready

Simplifies the collection of logon activity for major external regulations and internal security policies.

Improved insights with IT Security Search

Correlates disparate IT data from numerous systems and devices into an interactive search engine for fast security incident response and forensic analysis. Includes user entitlements and activity, event trends, suspicious patterns, and more, with rich visualizations and event timelines.

Change auditing

Delivers a complete solution for auditing user activity from start time to end time about change events (when combined with other Change Auditor modules).

Integrated event forwarding

Easily integrate with SIEM solutions to forward Change Auditor events to Splunk, HP Arcsight or IBM QRadar. Additionally, Change Auditor integrates with Quest InTrust for long-term 20:1 compressed event storage and aggregation of native or third-party logs to reduce storage costs on SIEM forwarding and create a highly-compressed log repository.

Best practice reporting

Provides comprehensive reports that make it easy to comply with best practices, such as reports on access, successful logons and failed logons; authorization comparison reports; and reports grouped by users.

Role-based access

Enables you to configure access so that auditors can run searches and reports without making any configuration changes to the application, all without involving the administrator.

Real-time alerts on the move

Sends critical alerts on both successful and failed logons via email and mobile devices to enable fast response to security threats, even while you're off site.

Event timeline

Enables viewing, highlighting and filtering of logon activity and related change events over time for better forensic analysis of events and trends.

Web-based access and targeted dashboards

Enables searches from anywhere using a web browser, and provides targeted dashboard reports that enable upper management and auditors to access the information they need without having to understand architecture or administration.

Specifications

Change Auditor System Requirements

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.

Change Auditor Coordinator Requirements (Server-side component)

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 SP4
Microsoft SQL Server 2014 SP2

Microsoft SQL Server 2016 SP2
Microsoft SQL Server 2017

NOTE: Change Auditor supports SQL AlwaysOn Availability Groups and SQL 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
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: 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.

Additional Account Coordinator minimum permissions required, please see Change Auditor Installation Guide .