8 critical flaws in Native Auditing and how LepideAuditor Suite helps

What is Native Auditing?

“Native Auditing is the process of auditing using nothing other than the default tools provided by windows.”

Noise

Event logs provide a lot of unnecessary and unreadable data to sift through.

Before being used in audits the event logs would have to be re-formatted.

Auditing with everything enabled can even be severely disruptive to the performance of the audited system.

The Limitations of native auditing

The Limitations of native auditing

Not good enough for compliance

It is likely that you will have to produce detailed and extensive reports to keep auditors happy.

With native auditing this is process can be frustratingly time consuming.

No before and after values

Native auditing will tell you when something has changed but this information on its own lacks meaning.

To really understand the context of a change you need to know the original value.

The Limitations of native auditing

Its reactive

The alerting and reporting capabilities of Native Auditing are crude. Often the only way you are made aware of changes is in the wake of an incident.

The Limitations of native auditing

Time is money

The modern IT team is under increasing pressure to find cheaper, leaner and faster ways of doing things. Searching through log files is a laborious and time consuming task.

The Limitations of native auditing

It’s not scalable

If you’re a multi-site organisation, scaling and consolidating logs whilst managing multiple sites can be problematic. Especially when trying to maintain a policy for auditing and monitoring using native logs.

The Limitations of native auditing

It’s like a jigsaw puzzleTrying to answer a basic question such as who, what, where and when a change is made manually requires patience and time. This is time that a lot of IT departments don’t have

The Limitations of native auditing

It lacks securityFrom time to time people abuse our trust and abuse their privilege. When you rely solely on log files to track changes – as native auditing does –what happens when a rogue administrator deletes them to cover their tracks?

The Limitations of native auditing

How LepideAuditor Suite helps

Detailed Audit Information

Gives you a single log as well as before and after values for every single change. They show detailed information on changes, including what the value of a change was before it happened.

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270+ predefined audit reports

Offers 270+ security and systems management reports and 70+ compliance reports. It also sends real-time notifications to specified email recipients and/or the LepideAuditor App.

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Better log archiving

Logs can be archived either manually or on a pre-defined schedule to an encrypted SQL Server database. This process consumes less space than auditing natively. You can also define the log retention policies.

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Scheduling

You can schedule audit and compliance reports be emailed periodically to the intended recipients.

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Better Auditing Features

Customise audit reports to monitor a specific object. Audit reports can be searched, sorted, filtered and grouped.

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What LepideAuditor includes

Active Directory auditing

Group Policy auditing

Exchange Server auditing

File Server auditing

SQL Server auditing

SharePoint auditing

Active Directory cleanup

Password expiry notifications

Server HealthCheck

Permission analysis

AD and GPO changes rollback

Compliance reporting

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