TrustRadius Insights for ManageEngine ADAudit Plus are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
User-Friendly Interface: Users have praised the software for its intuitive interface, which allows for easy management delegation, reporting, and customization of reports to suit specific needs effectively. The simplicity of navigating through various features has been particularly noted as a time-saving aspect by users.
Comprehensive Reporting Capabilities: Reviewers have highlighted the detailed insights provided by the reporting features, such as file audits and active directory audits. These capabilities enhance user and group management changes significantly. For instance, being able to generate custom reports based on Active Directory changes was specifically mentioned as a valuable feature.
Real-Time Alerts and Detailed Logs: The tool's real-time alerts, combined with detailed logs, were commended by users for enhancing the overall monitoring and auditing experience through timely notifications and in-depth activity tracking. Users found that receiving immediate alerts on critical events allowed them to respond swiftly to potential security issues, improving their overall system security posture.
Auditing Admin Activities, Ransomware Protection, Auditing malicious user activities, and changes on systems. The audit tracking from admin and user activities is, in my opinion, an important feature. It delivers a clear sight of everything, and you can reproduce every change in each system. The reporting engine is easy to use and can be used by everyone without learning.
Pros
Audit-Logs.
Tracking User Activities.
Tracking Admin Activities.
Cons
Reporting function.
Understanding how to cleanup space.
More support for cloud.
Likelihood to Recommend
It is well suited at onprem but less at the cloud.
VU
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (201-500 employees)
We Use ADAudit Plus to audit our AD on-prem and see who did what on accounts. This also allows us to track login attempts from an external source. We also use this platform to help manage stale accounts and accounts with too much privilege. We are also able to see what server users and admins are logging in.
Pros
User id tracking and modification.
Who logged in to what.
How many failed attempts per user.
Cons
Reporting from longer term faster.
GUI could be improved.
More customizable dashboard.
Likelihood to Recommend
We detected that a person was logged into a server with his regular credentials when he should not have been able to since only admin accounts are allowed to do so. We saw a user getting locked accounts all the time, logging into a server, and then logging out. After he changed his password twice, the account locked out due to the login.
VU
Verified User
General Manager in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)
We use ManageEngine ADAudit Plus as a security layer for AD activity audits, automatic detection of anomalous behavior, and also as a research tool to find users vs. computers.
Pros
Identify unusual logins to AD, such as after hours, for example.
Detailed audit of user changes in AD, like account change auditing, group policy changes auditing
Custom Reports and Alerts
Cons
No changes required.
No changes required.
No changes required.
Likelihood to Recommend
ADAudit Plus is suitable for any size of company, due to its licensing format, but I believe that in more complex scenarios, for companies that take information security seriously, it is indispensable.
i use ManageEngine ADAudit Plus to my Siem integration. also, i use it when i asked for to see who deleted file and folder and when. it even used me once to troubleshot deleted files by service account.
Pros
audit ad changes
audit deleted files
map service users
Cons
1 click setting
if there is new dc, it should be added automatically
Likelihood to Recommend
security scenarios. more than once, i used it to see changes in gpo, enabled account , etc...
VU
Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)
We use this to track and managed failed/unusual sign ins and unusual activity within our estate
Pros
User Audit tracking - logon/log off events
unusual azure logon activity
unusual file activity
AD changes
Cons
Easier understanding of report creation
more modern interface
Likelihood to Recommend
ManageEngine ADAudit Plus is useful in identifying who changed what and when within AD and Azure AD. It is helpful in identifying why logins fail and allow easier resolution. Tracking of anomalous behaviour.
VU
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)
We have been a ManageEngine ADAudit Plus customer for over eight years and have used it to monitor protected Active Directory groups. The groups that we primarily monitor are groups that have elevated privileges within Active Directory, such as Domain Admins, Domain Operators, and groups that have privileges to reset passwords. If a member is removed or added to one of these groups ManageEngine ADAudit Plus will generate an email alert that goes out to system admins.
Pros
Monitors privledged group memberships
detailed reports are available
monitors changes to Group Policy settings
Cons
more robust reporting , dashboards, etc
Likelihood to Recommend
in our environment we have found it to be most beneficial to as an alerting system when someone has been added to a privilege group that may not have been authorized to be in the group. These alerts go to the Domain Admins group that will then determine if the user role is authorized or not. We also use to track who has done Group Policy updates and may not have gone through the correct Change Control process.
VU
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)
Our company uses this product in multiple ways. We use it from a security and auditing perspective to monitor Windows logons to critical Windows devices, monitor account lockouts on how often they are occurring down to the source of the authentication and monitoring real-time changes in our Windows environment. From an auditing perspective we monitor file changes to critical locations, privileged user monitoring, peripheral device auditing and starting to integrate and use it in our cloud environments as well. The problems this products address for us are is provides us with deeper reporting then we used to have all of the auditing/security options available wit the product. The reporting is pretty deep, informative and easy to understand for all levels of management. Our scope and use case was for more enhanced reporting options from a security and auditing perspective in which this product excelled at for us and our needs.
Pros
Windows Logon Monitoring
File Change Monitoring
Privileged User Monitoring
USB Auditing
Reporting
Cons
Improve the initial setup as we had a few issues
The Managing File Server activity could be improved
Web portal needs to be updated from a look & feel perspective
Upgrade the custom reports
Likelihood to Recommend
The ManageEngine ADAudit Plus solution is well suited for us when it comes to all of the security and auditing features and capabilities. Being in a highly regulated industry, having the access and the visibility this solution provides is so needed and very important. Also, the name carries weight as well with auditors as they are aware of the product and its capabilities as well. It currently has no areas for us as to being not appropriate.
VU
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)
We use it mostly for an information trail. It helps us troubleshoot, accidental deletions on our file server and changes to our Active Directory environment. Recently have been setting up more alerting around permission changes on objects and User creation activities.
Pros
Logging
Reporting
Alerting
Cons
Steep learning curve
alerting customization
Likelihood to Recommend
It is very cost effective solution, it covers most of our needs compared to competitors at a fraction of the price. It requires a bit of work to get to a great place as far as relevant information
VU
Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)
We use ManageEngine ADAudit Plus to keep a record of logins in our data centre. This is data that we could never keep track of manually and the product does a great job. There are also some users who may not work outside of their specific hours. This allows us to report on this effectively. A 3rd aspect is troubleshooting failed RDS logins. We can track the journey more effectively.
Pros
Tracking user logins
Tracking failed logins
Cons
There have been occasions where the service was not running and i would not have known without logging in
The upgrade process could be simpler
Likelihood to Recommend
It is most suited to keeping an eye on any potential bad actors gaining or trying to gain access
