TechValidate Research on Quest Microsoft Platform Management

Introduction

This case study of a medium enterprise banking company is based on a June 2013 survey of Change Auditor customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

Challenges

• Purchased Change Auditor for the following reasons:
  • Meeting external compliance regulations
  • User and administrator activity monitoring
• Solved the following problems with Change Auditor:
  • Informed and updated management of security issues with built-in and easy to read reports
  • Limited the powers of administrators and other highly permissioned users

Use Case

• Owns the following modules of Change Auditor:
  • Active Directory
  • Windows File Server
• Has the following compliance regulations:
  • FISMA
  • SAS 70
  • SOX

Results

• Finds the following the most helpful features of Change Auditor:
  • Real-time alerts on security policy violations
  • Its ability to change event normalization into simple, human readable terms
  • Scheduled reporting

Introduction

This case study of Herbalife is based on a June 2013 survey of Change Auditor customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

Challenges

• Purchased Change Auditor for the following reasons:
  • Operational risk management
  • User and administrator activity monitoring
  • Tracking changes across platforms
  • Manual data collection efforts for audits that were complex and time consuming
• Solved the following problems with Change Auditor:
  • Prevented changes that might negatively affect operations
  • Limited the powers of administrators and other highly permissioned users

Use Case

• Owns the following modules of Change Auditor:
  • Active Directory
  • EMC
  • Exchange
  • LDAP / AD Queries
  • NetApp
  • SharePoint
  • SQL Server
  • Windows File Server
  • Authentication Services (freeware with Quest Authentication Services)
  • VMware (freeware with purchase of another Change Auditor module)

Results

• Chose Change Auditor over the following vendors:
  • Netwrix
  • STEALTHbits
• Finds the following the most helpful features of Change Auditor:
  • Real-time alerts on security policy violations
  • Its ability to change event normalization into simple, human readable terms
  • Scheduled reporting
• Workload was reduced and productivity increased by 25-50% with Change Auditor.