Hardening Azure AD Security

Netwrix Auditor for Azure AD maximizes visibility into user actions in your cloud-based Active Directory, enabling you to quickly detect and investigate incidents that threaten your security or business continuity. This application tracks and reports on security and configuration changes, and enables Azure AD access control by reporting on both successful and failed sign-ins to your cloud directory service.

Alerts on threat patterns
Enables you to easily create custom alerts on threat patterns — for instance, failed sign-ins or illicit changes to roles — so you can prevent security breaches.
Valuable insights about user actions
Helps you stay informed about user actions in your Azure AD tenant by delivering important details, such as what exactly changed, who made each change, where each change originated and when it happened, in easy-to-read format.
Advanced reporting capabilities
Simplifies Azure AD security reporting with thoughtfully laid-out scheduled and on-demand audit reports and overview dashboards that offer useful filtering, sorting and exporting options.
Tracking of all sign-in attempts
Facilitates Azure AD access control for security and compliance by tracking and reporting on user sign-in attempts, both successful and failed, in your cloud Active Directory.
Audit trail investigation with Interactive Search
Enables security investigations by simplifying audit trail searches; simply provide your specific search criteria and quickly find the exact piece of information you need.
Azure AD security and compliance reporting
Enables you to pass your IT security audit checks with much less effort by offering out-of-the-box compliance reports mapped to the requirements of PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOX, GLBA, FISMA/NIST, CJIS, GDPR and more.
Because Azure AD is at the heart of your hybrid cloud operations, it is essential to protect it against improper configuration changes. To secure your data and protect business operations, you need deep insight into everything happening in your Microsoft cloud Active Directory. Netwrix Auditor for Azure AD enhances Azure AD security and helps you ensure business continuity by enabling complete visibility into cloud AD changes and user sign-in activity.
"We use Netwrix Auditor to audit every system of our infrastructure. Previously, I used five separate solutions from other vendors for monitoring Active Directory, MS Exchange, logs and firewall log analyzers. I have replaced all of them with Netwrix Auditor."

Andrew Ledford, Chief Information Officer,

BankCard Central

Mitigate information security threats when hosting Active Directory in Azure

Ensure the integrity and security of your organization’s cloud directory service with visibility into user activity in your Azure AD deployment. Easily track successful and failed sign-in attempts and critical changes to Azure AD users, groups, roles, contacts, applications, devices, licenses and more. Monitor your AD’s pulse and review important security metrics using Overview dashboards, or get deeper insights by drilling down into graphs and jumping to detailed audit reports.
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Mitigate information security threats when hosting Active Directory in Azure

Gain visibility into user and administrator activity in Azure AD and ensure your audit trail is safely retained for years

Detect and mitigate threats to your sensitive data by keeping abreast of critical Azure AD configuration changes with easy-to-read reports. Establish full accountability of your privileged Azure AD users with the actionable intelligence the reports provide. Be more productive with report subscriptions that automate delivery of reports to the email addresses or shared folders you specify. Safely retain your audit trail for many years, and ensure easy, any-time access to audit intelligence with a reliable and cost-effective two-tiered (file-based + SQL database) AuditArchive™ storage.
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Investigate security or operational incidents and address auditor’s requests with Interactive Search

Be ready when external auditors ask you to show all modifications to Azure AD multi-factor authentication settings and role changes over the past year. Quickly find and eliminate the root cause of a web application access failure. With the advanced search capabilities of Interactive Search, you can supply search criteria and use built-in filters to quickly retrieve a particular audit trail record you need or establish the broader context of an incident with traces from across multiple IT systems.
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Investigate security or operational incidents and address auditor’s requests with Interactive Search

Deploy Netwrix Auditor wherever you need it

On Premises
Download a free 20-day trial of Netwrix Auditor and deploy it on Microsoft Windows Server.
Virtual
Download our virtual appliance and start using Netwrix Auditor without having to provision any hardware or software.
Cloud
Deploy Netwrix Auditor from the Microsoft Azure or AWS marketplaces and get up and running with auditing in just minutes.
"Netwrix keeps our compliance costs down while making it easier to follow strict federal and industry regulations. Netwrix Auditor saves us about 8 hours on preparing for the IT security audit, and approximately 4 hours weekly on gathering audit data as reference for future audits."

Benjamin Shumaker, Network Information Security Officer / NISO,

Credit Union of Denver

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Top 5 Azure AD Incidents You Need Visibility Into
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See how Netwrix Auditor helps organizations of all sizes and from many different industries maintain secure operations
Managed Service Provider,
85 employees
Xcentric proves it follows a comprehensive security policy and makes its offerings more attractive to potential clients with Netwrix Auditor.
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Financial Services,
170 employees
Credit Union of Denver ensures the integrity of sensitive member records and meets the demands of the National Credit Union Administration with Netwrix Auditor.
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Law,
500 employees
Miles & Stockbridge uses Netwrix Auditor to establish centralized control over critical systems and ensure continuous system performance.
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Construction and Engineering,
4000 employees
Costain uses Netwrix Auditor to ensure that in-house and outsourced IT teams have proper access rights, ensuring security and streamlining workflows.
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Over 160,000 IT departments worldwide rely on Netwrix to secure IT infrastructure, prove compliance and increase operational efficiency
Netwrix offers a competitive pricing model, and has thought through several of this product category’s bigger challenges, such as long-term archives, reporting and security.
Having been a practitioner who used Netwrix in production payment environments, I can say that Netwrix was an invaluable auditing toolset that saved me and my organization many hours of time in our PCI audits.
Configuration auditing tools can help you analyze your configurations according to best practices, enforce configuration standards and adhere to regulatory requirements.
We need pervasive and true visibility into our enterprise environments. You simply can’t do security today without the visibility of both continuous full-packet capture and endpoint compromise assessment visibility.

Detecting and reporting critical Azure AD changes

Continuous tracking of privileged user actions in Azure AD is essential for establishing and maintaining a proper level of security of your cloud directory service and many dependent IT systems. It is also important for achieving regulatory compliance and passing audits. Netwrix Auditor for Azure AD is a visibility application that offers advanced reporting capabilities. It helps you detect privilege escalation by reporting Azure AD group changes. It also reports other Azure AD changes that are critical to security, such as changes to passwords, policies, roles and more.

Keeping track of Azure AD group membership changes with Netwrix Auditor

Any change to Azure AD group membership or other security settings can open the door for external attackers or malicious insiders to violate the integrity and privacy of your sensitive data. Having complete visibility into things like privilege escalation is critical for effective data protection. Netwrix Auditor for Azure AD maximizes visibility into everything that is happening in your cloud Active Directory. It provides full details about Azure AD group membership changes and other modifications that might negatively affect the security of your sensitive data.

Tracking changes: Azure AD audit reporting made easy with Netwrix Auditor

Tracking Azure Active Directory changes is simple with Netwrix Auditor for Azure AD. This best-in-class visibility and governance application ensures all security-related events are automatically collected, aggregated, preserved in a reliable storage and presented in a format that is easy to work with. Multiple scheduled and on-demand reports include useful filtering, sorting and exporting options, and subscription capabilities enable faster delivery of the actionable intelligence to anyone who needs it in your organization.

Effectively Maintaining and Proving Your Azure Compliance and Security

Is ensuring ongoing Azure compliance and security critical for your organization? Do you always think about how you can strengthen the protection of your customer data and provide compliance information about your network security at audit checks? Complement your identity and access management solution or other security tools with the complete visibility offered by Netwrix Auditor for Azure AD. The solution delivers ready-to-use predefined reports, including compliance reports mapped to specific regulations — including CJIS, FERPA, FISMA/NIST, GDPR, GLBA, HIPAA, ISO/IEC 27001, PCI DSS and SOX — to help you simplify reporting processes, answer auditors’ questions faster, store your audit trail for years and prove with ease that your data in the cloud is secure.

Keeping Your Azure PCI DSS Compliant by Gaining More Visibility into Azure AD

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) requires organizations that handle cardholder data, such as SSNs and credit card numbers, to track and monitor all access to network resources and PCI data. Azure AD is the entry point to cloud directory services where sensitive data can be stored. To maintain Azure PCI compliance, you need to know who signs in and what changes are made across your Azure AD, so you can help ensure solid data integrity and security, 24/7 business continuity, and successful attestation of compliance (AOC). This visibility helps you kill two birds with one stone: You can spot threats faster and satisfy qualified security assessors (QSAs).

Ensuring Azure AD HIPAA Compliance with
Streamlined Reporting

Healthcare organizations in the U.S. are required to comply with the HIPAA and HITECH Act, which focus on the security and portability of electronic protected health information (ePHI), which includes accountability of the users and systems handling it. If your healthcare organization uses cloud services, such as Microsoft Azure, to work with healthcare data, then you need to ensure the security of Azure AD and be able to provide evidence to prove it. You can sign a HIPAA Business Associates Agreement with Microsoft; however, you can’t rely just on your cloud provider to secure your IT ecosystem. You still need to stay abreast of what’s happening in your Azure AD and apply all the security controls required by HIPAA and HITECH in your Azure AD ecosystem.

Detect Possible Identity Theft by Keeping an Eye on
Azure AD Password Resets

The Azure AD self-service password reset capability is very convenient for users, and it can also dramatically cut helpdesk costs. But it does give IT administrators one more thing to worry about — staying on top of Azure AD password resets to spot any suspicious actions that could indicate identity theft. Netwrix Auditor for Azure AD delivers detailed reports on all activity across your Azure AD environment, including which Azure AD users changed their passwords in your cloud-hosted Active Directory without provisioning from on-premises Active Directory.