NetWrix Change Reporter Suite

Best Auditing and Compliance Product 3 years in a row!

Review by Don Jones >

Change auditing is critical to maintaining a secure IT infrastructure and sustaining compliance. Without effective and convenient tracking and ongoing review of changes in systems and applications organizations risk losing control of security. Unauthorized, unwanted, and malicious changes in IT infrastructure can have tremendous impact on business continuity and predictability. Also, change auditing is a cornerstone of all major compliance regulations.

NetWrix Change Reporter Suite is an integrated solution for automated auditing of the entire IT infrastructure. No matter who changed what and where — be it Active Directory, file servers, Microsoft Exchange, filer appliances such as NetApp or EMC, virtual and physical infrastructure, SQL Server databases — everything is centrally audited, consolidated, and presented in easy to understand reports, scheduled for ongoing review and forensic auditing of day-to-day administrative activities by your security team and periodic inspections by compliance auditors. The product streamlines compliance to HIPAA, SOX, PCI, GLBA, FISMA and many other regulations, provides an easy-to-use solution that drastically improves IT infrastructure visibility and internal security.

Powered by AuditAssurance™ technology, the Change Reporter Suite produces reports that include complete information on every single change that has occurred in an organization and can be used for detailed forensic analysis. Unlike traditional log management solutions (SIEM), NetWrix makes it very easy to find relevant answers to key questions: who changed what, when, where, including previous and new values for modified settings. Another unique NetWrix technology, AuditIntelligence™, transforms raw audit data into meaningful and actionable intelligence to drive security and compliance efforts. Data can be filtered by different criteria, such as name of person who made changes or accessed data, time period, and other parameters. Examples:

(*) Features marked with (*) will be available in the next release.

NetWrix also recommends that you evaluate SCOM Management Pack for Change Reporter Suite, a solution that audits who changed what, when, and where in Active Directory, Group Policy and Microsoft Exchange, and feeds the audit data to Microsoft System Center Operations Manager, which generates appropriate reports and alerts.