Compare ManageEngine ADAudit Plus vs. NetWitness

ADAudit Plus enhances the security and compliance of your Windows Server environment by delivering comprehensive insights into all operational activities. It offers a detailed overview of modifications made to Active Directory (AD) resources, encompassing AD objects and their respective attributes, group policies, and more. By conducting thorough AD audits, organizations can identify and mitigate insider threats, misuse of privileges, and other signs of potential security breaches, thereby bolstering their overall security framework. The tool enables users to monitor intricate details within AD, including entities such as users, computers, groups, organizational units (OUs), group policy objects (GPOs), schemas, and sites, along with their associated attributes. Furthermore, it tracks user management activities like the creation, deletion, password resets, and alterations in permissions, providing insights into the actions taken, the responsible individuals, the timing, and the originating locations. Additionally, it allows organizations to monitor the addition or removal of users from security and distribution groups, ensuring that access privileges are kept to the necessary minimum, which is critical for maintaining a secure environment. This level of oversight is vital for proactive security management and compliance adherence.

The NetWitness Platform integrates advanced SIEM and threat defense tools, providing exceptional visibility, analytical power, and automated response functions. This integration empowers security teams to enhance their efficiency and effectiveness, elevating their threat-hunting capabilities and allowing for quicker investigations and responses to threats throughout the organization’s entire infrastructure, whether it is located in the cloud, on-premises, or virtual environments. It offers the crucial visibility necessary for uncovering complex threats concealed within today’s multifaceted hybrid IT ecosystems. With its capabilities in analytics, machine learning, orchestration, and automation, analysts can more swiftly prioritize and probe into potential threats. The platform is designed to identify attacks in a significantly shorter time frame compared to other solutions and links incidents to reveal the comprehensive scope of an attack. By gathering and analyzing data from multiple capture points, the NetWitness Platform significantly speeds up the processes of threat detection and response, ultimately enhancing the overall security posture. This robust approach ensures that security teams are always a step ahead of evolving threats.