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Change Auditor for Skype for Business

Strengthen policy enforcement with proactive Skype for Business management. Skype for Business reporting is tricky with the limited tools built into the Skype platform. The lack of out-of-the-box auditing, reporting and alerting capabilities lead to poor visibility into your organization’s security settings and configurations. And that can result in compliance and security failures, system communication downtime and decreased productivity. But Change Auditor for Skype for Business changes all that by providing extensive tools offering real-time auditing, alerting and reporting.
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Change Auditor for Skype for Business

Get complete visibility into Skype for Business logs with single Skype for Business reporting solution
Get complete visibility into Skype for Business logs using a single reporting solution. Change Auditor for Skype for Business audits, alerts and reports on administrator activity, security and configuration changes in real time. With its enterprise-wide visibility, it allows you to see how Skype for Business is configured and enforced, allowing you to proactively enforce communication policies, eliminate mistakes or violations and reduce downtime.

At-a-glance display

Track critical Skype for Business changes made by admins including adding, deleting or modifying user accounts, backend configurations and security settings. This Skype for Business reporting solution provides detailed information on who, what, when, where and from which workstation for change events, plus original and current values for all changes.

Related searches

Provide instant, one-click access to all information on the change you're viewing and all related events, direct from skype for Business logs. You’ll be able to see what changes came from specific users and workstations, eliminating additional guesswork and unknown security concerns.

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.

Integrated event forwarding

Integrate with SIEM solutions to forward Change Auditor events to Splunk, ArcSight or QRadar.

Role-based access

Configure 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

Search from anywhere using a web browser and create targeted dashboard reports to provide upper management and auditors with access to the information they need without having to understand architecture or administration.

Best practice reporting

Get visibility into all Skype for Business activity with comprehensive best practice reports for infrastructure updates, administrator changes and user configurations.

Security timelines

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

Quest InTrust integration

Integrate this Skype for Business reporting solution 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.

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

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.

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
  • Windows Server 2022

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 .

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