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BLACKBIRD AUDITOR FOR ACTIVE DIRECTORY

DATA SHEET REAL-TIME AUDITING AND COMPLIANCE REPORTING FOR ACTIVE DIRECTORY AND GROUP POLICY
When it comes to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy configurations, a single change can put your organization at risk affecting productivity, risking security breaches, and threatening non-compliance. Yet, built-in Active Directory auditing capabilities are cumbersome, cryptic, and lack centralized auditing and reporting. Careful analysis of multi-megabyte security logs requires enormous resources and still fails to paint the entire picture of AD activity. Blackbird Auditor brings a new level of centralized control and ease to AD auditing and compliance. This powerful solution monitors Active Directory and Group Policy in real timetracking the WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN for every change.

Single-click access to the change log of every Active Directory

object, with direct integration of all u and computers

Seamless Integration with the Blackbird Management Suite for

continuous recovery and single-click attribute level rollback.

KEY BENEFITS
Translation of all events into meaningful text Instant notification of administrators about inappropriate AD
modifications

Tighter security and audit procedures Complance with regulations (HIPAA, SOX, PCI, GLBA and more)
by capturing AD change activity in centralized auditing database

Reduction of manual labor costs associated with security and

compliance reporting

Improved employee productivity

KEY FEATURES
Real time AD and GPO change monitoring A central audit database for reporting and alerting against all
change activity

COMPREHENSIVE CHANGE MONITORING WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN

Blackbird Auditor captures all the essential information for any modification, including who made the change, when it was made and where it was made. For every event, Blackbird captures the before and after values to clearly highlight the change. Additionally, unlike other auditing solutions, Blackbird Auditor provides interactive analysis with flexible, attribute level filtering and reporting,enabling administrators to more accurately and rapidly isolate users or programs that may be making inappropriate changes in your environment.

An extensive library of security and compliance reports

Intuitive wizards for custom views and reports

Ability to track the who, what, when, and where for every change Ability to track before/after value tracking for every change Provides the originating IP address for each change Intelligent auditing that displays a single entry for every event Plain English filtering, searching and reporting at the attribute level Audit event analytics for every object

ALWAYS KNOW THE WHO WHAT WHERE AND WHEN FOR EVERY CHANGES TO YOUR ACTIVE DIRECTORY
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DATA DATA SHEET SHEET CENTRALIZED, AUTOMATED REPORTING FOR STREAMLINED COMPLIANCE
Blackbirds advanced change monitoring capabilities helps you ensure that your organizations is in compliance with external regulations and internal security initiatives. You can also prove to auditors that corporate policies for compliance have not deviated over time. Its built-in reporting library offers out-of-the box reporting templates, while the custom reporting wizard makes it easy to create custom reports and alerts on any AD change, including flexible filtering on every attribute. With Blackbirds zero-touch scheduled reporting, you can run reports against the central database and automatically email reports to administrators, security officers, and business data owners. In addition, Blackbird Auditor translates all events into simple English that can be easily understood.

BLACKBIRD MANAGEMENT SUITE:

SEAMLESS LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT
Blackbird Auditor for Active Directory is part of the Blackbird Management Suite, a fully integrated, end-to-end solution that seamlessly guides administrators through the entire identity and access lifecyclefrom real-time auditing of AD and Windows File System, to compliance reporting, proactive safeguards and recovery. A single dashboard provides a consolidated view for unprecedented ease and efficiency in identity and access management.

MINIMIZE THE IMPACT OF ERRANT AD OR GPO CHANGES

With instant alerts, Blackbird Auditor enables administrators to quickly react and resolve critical AD changes that could affect the security or availability of your organizations applications, network resources, and AD integrated cloud-based services. Seamless integration with the Blackbird Management Suite means administrators can instantly roll back an unwanted change to its previous state and even take measures to prevent such a change from occurring again. Theres no easier or safer way to ensure the continuous availability of the applications and access rights your organization depends on every day.

ABOUT THE BLACKBIRD GROUP

The Blackbird Group is a leader in identity and access management. Blackbirds innovative solutions help organizations make the most of their technology investments and Windows infrastructurewith simpler compliance, streamlined governance, increased IT efficiency, and greater application availability. The Blackbird Group is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner with more than 15 million installed seats worldwide. Founded in 2002, the Blackbird Group is a privately held company. Corporate headquarters are in Manhattan,

REAL-TIME AUDITING, INTERACTIVE ANALYSIS, ALERTING, AND COMPLIANCE REPORTING FOR MICROSOFT ACTIVE DIRECTORY

CONTACT INFORMATION
+1 (212) 380-1465 Toll Free: +1(866)224-8330 sales@blackbird-group.com