Netwrix Auditor Free Community Edition

Stay updated on user activity in your hybrid cloud IT environment
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The inability to track user activity
leaves you vulnerable

Are you worried that there might be an active threat in your environment and you won’t know until it’s too late? Netwrix Auditor Free Community Edition provides visibility into changes and access events in your hybrid cloud IT environment, so you’ll no longer have to worry about missing critical changes to AD objects, file server permissions, Windows Server configuration, or other security incidents.
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Did someone modify or add an account in AD?
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Features
Risk assessment

View a list of current vulnerabilities and their associated risk level. Includes passwordless users, loose permissions, sensitive data in filenames, and more. See which vulnerabilities are most critical and prioritize remediation.

Easily adjust risk thresholds so you only see what impacts your organization.

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Threat detection

Identify threats and security gaps across your IT environment. Unusual logins, suspicious admin activity, multiple inactive users, and more.

Get alerts before breaches or system failures occur. Investigate and remediate risks.

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Change, access, and configuration reporting

Get detailed reports on environment changes, access permissions, and configurations.

See who changed what, when, and where. Rollback unauthorized changes. Identify who can access sensitive folders & correct loose permissions. View reports of critical systems at any given date. Compare with current configurations.

Covers Active Directory, user accounts, Windows Server, and more.

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Access reviews

Accurately enforce least privilege by delegating permissions review to resource owners. Let owners check access levels, suggest permission changes, and leave notes. Track review statuses & send reminders.

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Why Netwrix Auditor Free Community Edition?
Automate user activity monitoring
Tracks all changes and access events in your critical systems and automatically delivers the information straight to your mailbox every single day.
Built on proven Netwrix technology
Consolidates information from multiple independent sources to transform raw data into meaningful and actionable intelligence.
100% free security monitoring
Reports on user activity in your environment for as long as you need it to. In addition, you get to evaluate the full version of Netwrix Auditor free of charge for 20 days.
Scales with your business
Seamlessly upgrades to the full version of Netwrix Auditor, which delivers complete visibility into user behavior for data security and risk mitigation.
Broadest Coverage
Reports on user activity across all of your on-premises or cloud-based IT systems in a unified way.
Broadest Coverage
Free Community Edition or Standard Edition?
Functionality
Free Community Edition
Standard Edition
Basic Auditing & Reporting
Reporting on configuration changes, read attempts and logons
Daily Activity Summary sent automatically to a single recipient
Before and after values for every modification
"What", "when", "where" details for each reported event
"Who" details for each reported event
Ability to run, customize and save reports
Ability to schedule report delivery to any # of recipients
State-in-Time configuration reporting
Advanced Analysis & Intelligence
Behavior anomaly discovery
User behavior and blind spot analysis
Risk assessment
Alerts on threat patterns
Compliance & Governance
Out-of-the-box compliance reports mapped to specific regulatory standards (PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOX, GDPR, FISMA/NIST800-53 and more)
File analysis
Role-based access control
Dashboards & Search
Overview dashboards
Google-like search of audit data
Recovery & Management
Active Directory object restore
System Capabilities & Integration
Multiple audited objects per system
Integration (RESTful API)
Two-tiered (file-based + SQL database) storage of audit data
Support & Maintenance
Support
Identify risks, detect security threats, and automate compliance reporting
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"Incredible free auditing/monitoring tool. Indispensable tool for anyone who considers himself a competent Windows sysadmin."

Nedeljko Visnjic,

Spiceworks Community

Tired of manually sifting through mountains of logs or struggling with legacy IT auditing tools?

How much time do you spend poring through piles of cryptic log data trying to find out exactly what is happening in your critical systems? Are you frustrated trying to juggle multiple free tools that report on only the events in one particular system? With the free version of Netwrix Auditor, monitoring user activity across your entire environment is as easy as checking your mailbox.
"Thanks for the use of your freebie. It worked as you said it should."

Ralph Hanahan,

Denmark Technical College

Why Netwrix Auditor Free Community Edition?

Automate user activity monitoring

Tracks all changes and access events in your critical systems and automatically delivers the information straight to your mailbox every single day.

Built on proven Netwrix technology

Consolidates information from multiple independent sources to transform raw data into meaningful and actionable intelligence.

100% free security monitoring

Reports on user activity in your environment for as long as you need it to. In addition, you get to evaluate the full version of Netwrix Auditor free of charge for 20 days.

Scales with your business

Seamlessly upgrades to the full version of Netwrix Auditor, which delivers complete visibility into user behavior for data security and risk mitigation.

Broadest Coverage

Reports on user activity across all of your on-premises or cloud-based
IT systems in a unified way.

Active Directory
and Group Policy
Microsoft Entra ID
Exchange
Windows File Servers
Dell Data Storage
NetApp
SharePoint
Oracle Database
SQL Server
Windows Server
VMware
Network Devices

Free Community Edition versus
Standard Edition

If you need complete visibility into your hybrid environment and want to mitigate security risks and shield your sensitive data from external attacks and malicious insiders, consider upgrading to the standard edition of Netwrix Auditor.

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