Computerworld

Windows and Active Directory auditing

If you are like most administrators, you want to know who is logging on, to which computer, and accessing resources on your servers. For your Windows computers and Active Directory environment, you ...
Business Wire

Paramount Defenses Releases Gold Finger 6.5, World’s Only Accurate Privileged Access Audit and Privileged Account Discovery Tool for Active Directory

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Paramount Defenses, a global cyber security company founded and led by a former Microsoft Cyber Security expert, announced the availability of version 6.5 of ...
TechRepublic

Audit changes in Active Directory and Group Policy with Netwrix Auditor

Uncontrolled changes in Active Directory and Group Policy can lead to unauthorized additions to groups, modifications to objects and permissions, or even worse, deletions of OUs. Netwrix Auditor ...
Network World

NetIQ best at moving Microsoft group policy along

Archive of Network World tests Subscribe to the Network Product Test Results newsletter In this Clear Choice test, we examine sets of tools that greatly expand Active Directory Group Policy ...
FedScoop

Audit identifies ‘ineffective’ active directory security controls at FDIC

The entrance to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). (Photo by George Rose/Getty Images) An audit of cybersecurity measures at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has identified multiple ...
Network World

Tame Active Directory groups to streamline management, prep for automation

On the surface, Active Directory groups are a simple and straightforward way to manage identities (users and/or computers) and assign permissions. Users or computers are added as group members, and ...
BizTech

What Is Active Directory Security (ADSecurity)?

Active Directory, a directory service provided by Microsoft Windows, plays a pivotal role in configuring permissions and network access for administrators. Comprising components such as Active ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft: New Windows updates fix Active Directory policy issues

Microsoft has released out-of-band (OOB) Windows updates to address a known issue affecting local audit logon policies in Active Directory Group Policy. As the company explained, these local policy ...
FedScoop

Audit: USPTO’s mismanagement of active directory poses ‘significant’ cyber risk

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office “inadequately managed” its active directory and “poorly protected” critical IT assets hosting it — putting its mission at “significant” cyber risk, according to a ...
Business Wire

Paramount Defenses Introduces the Gold Finger Suite for Microsoft Active Directory to Deliver Mission-Critical Cyber Security Insight to Microsoft’s Global Customer Base

Microsoft’s Active Directory is the heart and foundation of cyber security at over 85% of all business and government organizations worldwide because it stores and protects the entirety of an ...
Ars Technica

Why does Exchange Security Group need Manage Auditing and Security Log Rights?

Long story short I changed the Default Domain GPO (stupid I know) so that only Administrators had the Manage auditing and security log right under Computer Configuration > Security Settings > Local ...