Top 10 Critical Changes to Audit in Your IT Infrastructure
This webinar will help you understand why auditing is important, identify 10 most critical changes to audit and see how you can streamline your auditing using Netwrix Change Reporter Suite.
New version of NetWrix Windows Server Change Reporter 4.0
Completely revamped version with major improvements.
Integration with NetWrix Management Console: unified interface for most NetWrix products.
Auditing of Microsoft DNS Server.
Basic change management capabilities: editable status and comment fields for each change.
Improved reporting:
The Overview report shows high-level statistics on changes.
Drill-through reports link to the next level of detail.
Twelve new reports.
The report Subscription feature allows scheduling any available reports for automatic delivery by specifying report filters, schedule (daily/weekly/monthly) and recipients.
Automatic audit configuration on target computers.
New choice options for monitored computers: from within an AD container, an IP range, or by importing a list of computers from a file.
Email delivery through SMTP servers with SSL support (including the implicit SSL mode).
Support for the installation on servers with FIPS enabled.
Configurable audit database retention policy.
Typical fixes and updates.
Typical fixes and updates of NetWrix Management Console.
Version 3.3, released on January 24, 2013:
What's New:
New product has been added: NetWrix User Activity Video Reporter 1.0 (video capture and reporting on users' activity):
Video recording of users' activity (both interactive and remote sessions).
The NetWrix VideoScape™ technology allows collecting session embedded metadata (application names and windows titles, etc.) that can be used for filtering and data search inside video recordings.
Optimize video file size by limiting video recording for specific users and applications only and by adjusting video quality (grayscale, frames per second, etc.).
Reports on users' activity with sorting and filtering capabilities.
Reports Subscriptions allow scheduling any available reports for automatic email delivery.
Integration with other NetWrix Change Reporter products allows to see HOW particular changes reported by these products were made.
The NetWrix Console Audit feature allows to keep record of any actions performed using NetWrix Management Console and track changes to NetWrix modules configuration, Managed Objects and global settings.
New version of NetWrix SQL Server Change Reporter 2.6:
Typical fixes and updates.
New version of NetWrix Password Expiration Notifier 3.3:
Supports CSV for email reports.
Typical fixes and updates.
New version of NetWrix Password Manager 6.5:
New user interface localization languages: Traditional Chinese, Korean and Japanese (the product supports 13 languages now).
Improved Logon Prompt Extension interface.
Enrollment can be forced on user logon.
Support for batch removal of multiple users.
Enhanced user verification: after answering the security questions, an email is sent with a link to the password reset operation.
Support for password management operations for SalesForce accounts.
Reports can be exported to the CSV format.
Two additional fields have been added to reports: email and organizational unit.
Typical fixes and updates.
Version 3.2, released on November 16, 2012:
What's New:
Automatic deployment and configuration of SQL Server 2012 Express Edition with Advanced Services (SQL Server 2008 for Windows Server 2008 w/o service pack, Windows Server 2003 or below).
New version of NetWrix Active Directory Change Reporter 7.2:
Support for the installation on Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8.
Support for Exchange 2013.
Support for Windows 2012-based domains.
A new report: "Users without Distribution Group Membership".
Support for the installation on servers with FIPS enabled.
Typical fixes and updates.
New version of NetWrix Password Expiration Notifier 3.2:
Support for the installation on Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8.
Support for Windows 2012-based domains.
Improved performance.
Support for both trusted and non-trusted domains.
Advanced filtering options: ability to filter out specific organizational units.
Reports on accounts expiration, in addition to passwords expiration.
User notifications on account expiration, in addition to the password expiration notification.
Ability to ignore the domain password policy and estimate expiration dates based on the granular password policies only.
Ability to overwrite the "Maximum Password Age" group policy setting used for the expiration date estimation.
Typical fixes and updates.
Support for the installation on Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8.
Support for Windows 2012-based domains.
Typical fixes and updates of NetWrix Management Console.
Version 3.1, released on October 2, 2012:
What's New:
New Version: NetWrix Active Directory Change Reporter 7.1:
Improved support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
Improved scalability in larger AD environments
Integration with NetWrix Non-owner Mailbox Access Reporter for Exchange
Primary group membership displayed in Snapshot Reports
Support for Asian languages in report filters
New reports for Active Directory
Configurable audit database retention policy
Typical fixes and updates
Version 3.0, released on September 14, 2012:
What's New:
NetWrix Enterprise Management Suite is now NetWrix All-in-One Suite
Simplified product installation process
Latest version of NetWrix Management Console:
Improved user interface, typical fixes and updates
Latest versions of NetWrix products:
NetWrix SQL Server Change Reporter 2.5:
Configurable Record, Row and Column content auditing including the before and after values.
Originating workstation tracking further clarifies the source of a change when changes are made using the same service account.
SQL Job change auditing: tracks changes made to Jobs, Job Steps and Job Scheduling.
Permissions change auditing for tables, views, stored procedures and functions.
Improved report delivery options, including the new CSV format and pre-delivery compression.
Typical fixes and updates.
NetWrix Account Lockout Examiner 4.1:
Completely revamped version with major performance improvements.
Email notifications can be configured to be triggered only when specified accounts are locked out.
User-friendly representation of the account lockout examination results.
Examination results now include the information on the process that may have caused an account lockout.
NetWrix Non-owner Mailbox Access Reporter for Exchange 3.0:
Completely revamped version with major performance improvements.
Reports show accessed mailbox object types: email, appointment, note, task, contact, etc.
Optional notifications to users about non-owner access to their mailboxes.
Support for the SMTP authentication (including SMTP SSL).
NetWrix Event Log Manager 4.0:
Support of syslog event collection: predefined event collection rules are available for Ubuntu 11 and RedHat Linux 5.
New choice options for monitored computers: from within an IP range or by importing a list of computers from a file.
The new Subscription feature allows scheduling any available reports for automatic delivery by specifying report filters, schedule (daily/weekly/monthly) and recipients.
30 new reports have been added.
New option allowing to collect and archive the important events only. Predefined sets of audit archiving filters are available for the following regulatory compliances: GLBA, HIPAA, PCI, SOX.
New option to collect detailed event descriptions and include them in reports.
Version 2.1, released on May 8, 2012, with the following products included:
NetWrix Account Lockout Examiner
NetWrix Active Directory Change Reporter
NetWrix Active Directory Object Restore Wizard
NetWrix Change Reporter for System Center Virtual Machine Manager
NetWrix Non-owner Mailbox Access Reporter for Exchange
NetWrix Password Expiration Notifier
NetWrix Password Manager
NetWrix Privileged Account Manager
NetWrix Server Configuration Change Reporter
NetWrix Service Monitor
NetWrix SharePoint Change Reporter
NetWrix SQL Server Change Reporter
NetWrix VMware Change Reporter
NetWrix Active Directory Change Reporter:
Real-time alerting on Active Directory changes that allows to "subscribe" select recipients to receive instant e-mail alerts when something critical changes in Active Directory (e.g. membership of security groups). Alerts are sent by e-mail immediately after a change is detected. Alert notification text can be customized and notification templates can include "who", "what", "when", "where" fields and "before" and "after" values for every critical change.
Subscriptions to any Advanced reports. Before version 7.0, the subscription capability was available only for basic "ad-hoc" reports (daily reports with the full list of changes). The new subscription feature allows to select any available reports, specify report filters, configure schedule (daily, weekly, monthly) and specify report recipients (e-mail addresses).
Active Directory Snapshot Reporting to report on Active Directory contents (AD "snapshots"), such as "All Members of Domain Admins group", "All Security Groups in AD" etc. You can report both on the current state and on historical data (e.g. "All members of Domain Admins group as of December 31, 2008").
All reports were extended with 'Where' field. The field value reflects a domain controller name where the change was made.
Integration with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager via separately available SCOM Management Pack.
Charts in addition to standard reports - e.g. display changes for a certain time period visually.
Browsing of Advanced Reports was improved, the new version allows to specify report filters before report generation starts. This improves user experience and saves time.
Significantly improved and optimized Active Directory change tracking technology, with less overhead on domain controllers and much better performance.
Precise tracking of AD attributes changed and reverted back during the same day (before 7.0 it was limited). For example, if an attribute's initial value was A, then it was changed to B and after several hours - to C, the new version will report on these changes in detail, with all intermediate attribute values. Note: all the intermediate attribute values will be reported if the time interval between changes made to the attribute is at least 10 minutes.
Significantly improved handling of Security event logs that prevents log overwrites and lost audit data.
Improved reliability and error diagnostics: administrators are immediately notified about audit data processing issues.
Custom Report Builder for easy creation of custom reports. This allows customers to create their own reports on Active Directory changes and snapshots.
Performance optimization of SQL database operations for better scalability in large Active Directory environments.
Simplified management of installed license codes for NetWrix products.
Automatic Advanced Reporting installation and configuration locally for Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and above.
Ability to send e-mails through SMTP server with SSL support (including the implicit SSL mode).
User interface improvements in NetWrix Management Console.
Improved reliability of NetWrix Management Console.
Easy to use taskpad with most frequent operations on the Welcome page of NetWrix Management Console.
Active Directory Object Restore Wizard now restores users and computers with their passwords preserved. The feature makes these objects fully functioning as before they were deleted without the need to reset a user's password or rejoin computers to the domain. Note: additional configuration of the Active Directory Schema Container is required for the feature to work properly, please see the documentation for more information.
NetWrix Account Lockout Examiner:
Typical fixes and updates.
NetWrix VMware Change Reporter:
Change auditing for new types of VMware configuration objects: Alarm, Cluster, Firewall Port, and Storage Path Selection.
Support for large VMware environments (optimized memory usage).
Typical fixes and updates.
NetWrix Change Reporter for SCVMM:
Support for x64-bit operating systems.
Auditing of WHO made changes into System Center Virtual Machine Manager configuration and WHEN those changes were made, in addition to auditing of WHAT was changed.
All audit reports now include human friendly descriptions for changes, describing what specific changes actually mean (what actually happened), listed in the Details column. Examples of descriptions: "Remove checkpoint" or "Change properties of virtual machine".
The ability to audit SC VMM configuration changes made BEFORE the product was installed.
Full support for SC VMM 2008 R2.
The ability to generate audit reports for arbitrary time frames, not limited to timestamps of collected configuration snapshots.
Minor typical fixes.
NetWrix Event Log Manager:
The event filters can now define what events must be saved to the Audit Archive (highly compressed file-based storage), SQL database (for reports) or both.
New event filtering option for real-time alerts to react on events from specific users (filter by user name).
Improvements in network traffic compression capability.
Granular control of diagnostic logging into Application Log via HKLM\SOFTWARE\NetWrix\Event Log Manager\WriteToApplicationLog registry setting.
Added e-mail reports server SMTP authentication option and SSL support.
Many minors typical fixes and updates.
NetWrix Inactive Users Tracker:
Separate options for processing of computer and user accounts.
Support for SMTP authentication (including SMTP SSL).
Detection of inactive local computer accounts (in addition to Active Directory accounts).
Typical fixes and misc. minor improvements.
NetWrix Network Infrastructure Change Reporter:
Auditing of configuration changes in SNMP-enabled network devices: what settings were changed and where.
Automatic discovery of new devices and detection of disappeared devices within given IP ranges.
Reporting of what was changed (configuration setting names) as well as previous and new configuration values.
Scheduled reports automatically sent by e-mail to designated administrators.
Out of the box support for common device types and the ability to import MIB files for any other devices.
Filtering of changes by setting name (e.g. exclude settings that change too frequently and clutter reports).
NetWrix Privileged Account Manager:
Managed account discovery feature that allows to automatically pull privileged accounts and systems from AD organizational units, member servers, text files and other sources.
The freeware version is now available for up to 50 managed accounts.
Typical fixes and perfomance updates.
On installation, when the system checks if all required software components have been installed, it now detects if .NET 3.5 framework is missing.
The following issue has been fixed: When an account's Display-Name does not contain the SAM-Account-Name, the following error is returned: User Not Found.
NetWrix Password Expiration Notifier:
Option to send password expiration notifications via text messages (SMS).
Support for SMTP authentication (including SMTP SSL).
Option to include images in password expiration notifications.
Improved support for Windows Server 2008 Fine-Grained Password Policies
Typical fixes and misc. minor improvements.
NetWrix Password Manager:
User interface localization is now available in ten languages: in this version we have added German, French, Russian and Hebrew. More languages can be added manually or ordered from NetWrix for an additional fee.
If users do not want their passwords to expire after a certain period, they can now specify this on password reset (this option can be disabled by the administrator).
Administrators can prohibit users to create custom verification questions on the Self-Service portal.
Administrators can now assign predefined verification questions to a single managed domain, as opposed to the whole product installation in previous versions.
The customizable 'Support' field in the Administrative portal - Settings - Customer Branding ('Support phone' in previous versions) can now also contain an html code, which enables the use of content and image links.
The new Batch Enrollment feature available from the Administrative Portal enables administrators to import the existing users' profile information and verification data. Users then do not have to go through the initial enrollment procedure.
Users can now handle their Google Apps accounts with the Password Manager with the same ease and convenience as their domain accounts.
User Enrollment Report performance has been enhanced: it is now faster and supports an unlimited number of users.
The HelpDesk portal performance has been improved to support domains with a large number of users.
NetWrix SharePoint Change Reporter:
Support for distributed network environments via optional remote data collection. Now it's not necessary to install the product on the same server where SharePoint server is installed.
Ability to compress the data being transferred over the network.
Many typical fixes and updates.
NetWrix SQL Server Change Reporter:
Auditing of database backup and restore operations.
Auditing of changes made to database functions.
Misc typical fixes and updates.
Version 1.0, released on July 15, 2010 - Initial release with the following products included:
NetWrix Account Lockout Examiner
NetWrix Active Directory Change Reporter
NetWrix Active Directory Object Restore Wizard
NetWrix Bulk Password Reset
NetWrix Change Reporter for System Center Virtual Machine Manager
NetWrix Disk Space Monitor
NetWrix Event Log Manager
NetWrix Exchange Change Reporter
NetWrix Exchange Mail Archiver
NetWrix File Server Change Reporter
NetWrix Group Policy Change Reporter
NetWrix Inactive Users Tracker
NetWrix Logon Reporter
NetWrix Non-owner Mailbox Access Reporter for Exchange
NetWrix Password Expiration Notifier
NetWrix Password Manager (formerly Web-based Password Change for AD)
Top 10 Critical Changes to Audit in Your IT Infrastructure
This webinar will help you understand why auditing is important, identify 10 most critical changes to audit and see how you can streamline your auditing using Netwrix Change Reporter Suite.
