Compare Falcon Identity Threat Detection vs. Quest Change Auditor

Falcon Identity Threat Detection provides a comprehensive view of all Service and Privileged accounts across both your network and cloud environments, offering detailed credential profiles and identifying weak authentication measures across every domain. It allows for a thorough analysis of your organization’s domains to uncover potential vulnerabilities linked to outdated credentials or weak password practices, while also revealing all service connections and insecure authentication protocols in use. This solution continuously monitors both on-premises and cloud-based domain controllers through API integration, capturing all authentication traffic in real time. By establishing a behavioral baseline for all entities, it can identify unusual lateral movements, Golden Ticket attacks, Mimikatz traffic patterns, and other related security threats. Additionally, it aids in recognizing escalation of privilege and suspicious Service Account activities. With the capability to view live authentication traffic, Falcon Identity Threat Detection significantly accelerates the detection process, making it easier to identify and address incidents as they arise, thus enhancing overall security posture. Ultimately, this proactive monitoring ensures that organizations remain vigilant against potential identity-related threats.

Quest Change Auditor is a real-time security auditing and threat monitoring solution for Active Directory and broader hybrid Microsoft environments. It monitors configuration changes, administrator actions, user activity, authentication events, and other security-relevant changes across on-premises and cloud systems. Supported environments include Active Directory, Azure AD, Office 365, Windows Server, Exchange, SQL Server, network-attached storage, SharePoint, and OneDrive for Business. Change Auditor detects indicators of compromise and suspicious activity while monitoring lateral movement and post-breach actions across systems such as file servers, Exchange, and Office 365. Threat prevention capabilities can block attackers from modifying critical groups, Group Policy settings and links, sensitive mailboxes, or extracting the Active Directory database to obtain credentials. The platform also identifies common Kerberos authentication vulnerabilities associated with Golden Ticket and Pass-the-Ticket attacks. Normalized audit records convert system activity into readable who, what, when, where, and workstation information together with before-and-after values. Threat timelines and related-event searches help investigators understand how individual changes connect with other security activity across the Microsoft environment. Change Auditor can integrate detailed activity logs with SIEM platforms such as Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk, ArcSight, and QRadar and can generate reports supporting compliance requirements including GDPR, PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOX, FISMA/NIST, and GLBA.