Midland Heart effectively monitors its AD environment using ADAudit plus
About the Organization
Essendant operates at the nexus of cutting-edge logistics and innovative e-commerce solutions. They play a critical role as the link from point of sale to delivery, propelling resellers and manufacturers to optimize their supply chains, expand their paths to growth, and enhance customer experience. By unlocking unmatched distribution and fulfillment capabilities, Essendant supports their customers in reaching further and growing faster.
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Country
United Kingdom -
Industry
Housing -
Employees
1,001 - 5,000
Business Challenge
Midland Heart was struggling with managing and securing services running on Windows servers. It didn't have a solution to automate the management of service accounts. Moreover, the organization wasn't able to completely monitor the changes happening in its AD environment. Midland Heart also wanted to record time stamps showing when changes were made, which the native AD tools couldn't provide.
The Outcome
Midland Heart required a comprehensive auditing and reporting solution and so it chose ManageEngine ADAudit Plus that enables it to manage service accounts easily and completely, as well as monitor what is happening in its AD environment.
With ADAudit Plus, Midland Heart is able to monitor user management actions in real-time and maintain records of actions performed by users, administrators, and technicians. ADAudit Plus provides the time stamps for every change happening in the AD, like disabling a user account. This is beneficial for Midland Heart as the time stamps help automate the process for determining when user accounts will be deleted. The user management audit reports from ADAudit Plus enables the organization to audit these actions with ease.
With ADAudit Plus, Midland Heart is able to audit user logon actions across the Windows server environment. It can view reports based on specific actions; with data on logon failures based on users, logon activity based on DC/IP Address; member server logon activity; user's last logon; and more domain-specific reports. Midland Heart finds these reports very helpful in identifying stale users or unsecure accounts with passwords that have not been changed or reset in a long time.
About ADAudit Plus
ADAudit Plus is a UBA-driven auditor that helps keep your AD, Azure AD, file systems (including Windows, NetApp, EMC, Synology, Hitachi, Huawei, and Amazon FSx for Windows), Windows servers, and workstations secure and compliant. ADAudit Plus transforms raw and noisy event log data into real-time reports and alerts, enabling you to get full visibility into activities happening across your Windows Server ecosystem in just a few clicks.
