Netwrix Auditor: The SQL Server Monitoring Tool

Q: Can Netwrix Auditor track DBA activity in SQL Server environments?

Yes. Netwrix Auditor delivers detailed DBA activity tracking by capturing privileged actions, server role changes, and database modifications. This accountability helps organizations safeguard critical data and reduce risks from human error or misuse.

Q: How do SQL Server monitoring tools like Netwrix Auditor strengthen compliance?

With SQL Server compliance reporting, Netwrix Auditor offers prebuilt reports on database logons, role changes, and object modifications. This helps prove strong database controls while cutting manual audit prep.

Q: How does Netwrix Auditor support SQL Server insider threat detection?

With SQL Server insider threat detection, Netwrix Auditor identifies anomalous logons, privilege misuse, and unusual queries against sensitive tables. Early alerts give DBAs time to act before critical data is exposed.

Q: Why is auditing SQL Server logons important, and how does Netwrix Auditor help?

With SQL Server logon auditing, Netwrix Auditor records login attempts, privilege escalations, and account lockouts. DBAs gain the detail needed to investigate unauthorized database access.

Audit every logon, permission elevation, and schema change with an advanced, in-depth SQL Server monitoring tool.

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Why Netwrix?

Straightforward SQL Server audit software that boosts security and productivity

Minimize the risk of a data breach

Harden the security of structured data with SQL Server monitoring tools by exposing loose permissions and spotting critical actions.

Pass compliance audits with less effort

Generate ready-to-present reports for PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, SOX, GLBA, FISMA, CJIS, and other regulatory frameworks.

Increase the productivity of DBAs

Spot, investigate, and remediate unwanted changes, such as the accidental deletion of a database table.

Instance-wide audit coverage

Monitor configuration changes, database modifications, and user activities across every SQL Server instance in your environment.

Capabilities

SQL Server monitoring that answers compliance questions fast, when you need SQL audit data most

Permissions and configurations auditing

Alerts on threat patterns

Investigate security incidents faster

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Solutions

Go beyond single-threat protection. Secure every angle with Netwrix solutions.

AD CS Security

Certificate-based attacks bypass credentials, escalate privileges, and persist undetected. Netwrix stops them before they start.

Access certification

Certify access rights with Netwrix Identity Management. Run automated access reviews, remediate stale permissions, and simplify compliance with SOX, HIPAA, and GDPR.

Access request delegation

Automate and delegate access requests with Netwrix Identity Management to reduce IT workload, cut errors, and accelerate access delivery.

Access reviews and compliance

Automate access reviews and compliance with Netwrix Directory Management to enforce least privilege and deliver audit ready reports.

Achieve and maintain compliance with Netwrix

Automate access reviews and compliance with Netwrix Directory Management to enforce the principle of least privilege and deliver audit-ready reports.

Active Directory security

Identify, detect, respond to, and recover from Active Directory threats

Automate user and group management

Simplify account management with Netwrix Directory Manager. Automate account provisioning, password resets, and group membership updates.

Automated lifecycle workflows

Automated lifecycle workflows help you provision, adjust, and remove access automatically. Netwrix makes onboarding and offboarding fast and secure.

Compliance audit and reporting for hybrid IT

Simplify regulatory compliance across industries with Netwrix. Automate audit reporting, enforce access control, and protect sensitive data to meet GDPR, HIPAA, and SOX requirements.

Data access governance

Directory Management

Simplify and secure directory operations by cutting down on complexity, risk, and manual effort.

Eliminate privileged account sprawl

Eliminate privileged account sprawl with Netwrix Privilege Secure. Discover hidden accounts, enforce least privilege, and reduce your domain admin attack surface.

Empower users with self-service

Empower users with self-service in Netwrix Directory Manager. Reduce IT workload, lower costs, and keep employees productive with secure, automated workflows.

Endpoint Management Software

Secure endpoints and prevent data loss while keeping teams productive — no matter where they work.

Endpoint Privilege Management

A least privilege manager removes standing local admin and grants just-enough rights only for approved apps and commands. Netwrix Endpoint Privilege Manager enforces least privilege on Windows and macOS endpoints with just-in-time, audited elevation, so productivity holds and ransomware loses its entry point.

Enforce strong passwords

Enforce strong, compliant passwords with Netwrix Password Policy Enforcer. Block weak and compromised credentials while simplifying IT management.

Entitlement management

Strengthen entitlement management with Netwrix Identity Management. Control access with RBAC, automate reviews, and ensure permissions match roles across hybrid environments.

File integrity and configuration monitoring

Monitor file integrity, detect unauthorized changes, harden configurations, and prove compliance across your infrastructure.

Group lifecycle management

Streamline group lifecycle management with Netwrix Identity Management. Automate updates, prevent access sprawl, and keep directories clean and compliant.

Identity Governance and Administration (IGA)

Secure every identity, streamline every process, and stay ahead of compliance — without adding complexity.

Identity Management

Secure every identity, streamline every process, and stay ahead of compliance — without adding complexity.

Identity Threat Detection & Response

Stay ahead of identity-based threats — proactively remediate risks, block attacks, and ensure rapid recovery.

Identity risk detection and analysis

Continuously detect identity risks like conflicting entitlements, SoD violations, and dormant accounts with Netwrix Identity Management to reduce exposure and enforce controls.

Implement zero-standing privileges

Implement zero-standing privileges with Netwrix Privilege Secure. Replace persistent admin rights with just-in-time access and align with Zero Trust principles.

M365 Copilot readiness

Prepare Microsoft Copilot with full visibility into sensitive data, access risks, and AI activity, before it exposes what shouldn’t be shared.

Make group lifecycle and access management easy

Automate group lifecycle and access management with Netwrix Directory Manager. Keep memberships accurate, reduce IT workload, and enforce compliance.

Managed Service Providers

Secure, enhance and profit from your Microsoft investment with multi-tenant security and risk management from Netwrix.

Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures

Simplify IT integration during mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures with Netwrix. Automate identity management, secure data, and maintain compliance while minimizing risk.

Microsoft 365 Security

Secure Microsoft 365 and Copilot with Netwrix. Discover sensitive data, control access, monitor AI prompts, and prevent risky exposure across M365.

Non-Human Identities Defense

Detect and contain misuse of non-human identities

On-premise deployment with Netwrix

Secure endpoints, identities, and infrastructure inside your environment.

Privilege Discovery and Cleanup

Use always-on PAM to discover hidden privileged accounts, remove unnecessary rights, and reduce your attack surface through continuous discovery and cleanup.

Privileged Access Management

Shrink your attack surface by killing standing privileges, locking down credentials, and monitoring privileged sessions.

ROT data management and cleanup

Discover, classify, and control sensitive and ROT data across your environment. Identify risk, reduce exposure, and take action with clear visibility and automated remediation.

Session monitoring and audit readiness

With a modern PAM solution offering built-in session recording and audit features, organizations can establish monitoring, recordings, and basic audit trails within a few days; ongoing refinement continues thereafter.

Shadow AI security

Secure, enhance and profit from your Microsoft investment with multi-tenant security and risk management from Netwrix.

Third-party vendor access

Grant time-limited privileged access to contractors and vendors, monitor external user sessions, and automatically revoke access with Netwrix PAM.

Workforce password management

Replace shared spreadsheets and shadow vaults with centralized, end-to-end encrypted storage and secure team sharing, fully controlled by IT.

Zero trust security

Build a zero-trust architecture with Netwrix. Enforce least privilege, verify identity continuously, and protect sensitive data across hybrid environments.

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"Netwrix Auditor is one of the best tools I have ever had. It gives us complete visibility into our infrastructure and admin activities in all covered systems… while decreasing the time spent on reporting by 90%."

Predrag Škundrić

CISO, API Bank

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"Auditor is easy to install, administer and use. It does what it needs to and basically once set up just runs without issue..."

IT Assistant Manager, Healthcare and Biotech

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"Netwrix Auditor enables us to monitor user activity and make sure that Active Directory, which is a backbone system, is treated with respect. This definitely brings us peace of mind — whatever happens, we can always go to Netwrix Auditor and quickly run an investigation."

Joanna Murphy

Systems Engineer, Christchurch Airport

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"Netwrix Auditor has been one of the most cost-efficient security solutions we’ve ever invested in. It’s giving me visibility into insider threats, ransomware and brute-force attacks — all in one product suite, so I don’t have to invest in multiple solutions."

John Chow

CIO, Rancho Mission Viejo

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"I have used many products in my career and I am glad to say that Netwrix Auditor works as advertised right out of the box."

Andrew Shotwell

Senior Vice President, Bank of Botetourt

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"Software works great and I would recommend this to anyone. We use it for PCI Compliance."

Senior Network Administrator, Retail

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