Change Auditor for Logon Activity
How to audit user network logon activity in Change Auditor for Logon Activity
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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
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Features
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.
Related searches
Provides instant, one-click access to all information on the event you’re viewing and all related activity, eliminating guesswork and unknown security concerns.
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
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 2008 R2 SP3
- Microsoft SQL Server 2012 SP4
- Microsoft SQL Server 2014 SP2
- Microsoft SQL Server 2016 SP1
- Microsoft SQL Server 2017
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, 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 .
Resources
Change Auditor for Logon Activity
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