Netwrix Auditor reviews

A good product for the money

Opmerkingen: We have been quite happy with Netwrix and staff are starting to rely on it for detailed auditing.

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Netwrix Auditor is a good product that audits all of the items we need to audit. It will audit file servers, database server, Active Directory Servers, SharePoint servers and a whole lot more. We use it for all of these items and the price did not go up because we added more machine types.

Minpunten:

Netwrix can be a bit finicky at times. We have has it stop auditing a server because the configuration on the server was changed. It took a bit of work with support for them to realize that it shouldn't have stopped due to the configuration change and once they figured that out, they fixed the problem. Once we got the auditing to start, it picked up all of the items it missed while it wasn't auditing, so we lost nothing.

One of the best security solutions I ever used!

Opmerkingen: In security, to have a product which is so easy to use, not too expensive and to get all the information you ever wanted, I always thought that this doesn't exist, until our company didn't started to work with Netwrix.

Pluspunten:

The comprehensive auditing capabilities and real-time alerting system were the aspects I liked most about Netwrix Auditor. Additionally, the user-friendly interface and customizable reports were highly appreciated. The software's support for compliance requirements and easy deployment/integration were also significant advantages. Lastly, the knowledgeable customer support provided by Netwrix was another positive aspect that stood out to me.

Minpunten:

Although Netwrix Auditor offers many valuable features, I found the initial setup process to be somewhat challenging. However, once I overcame that hurdle, the overall experience was positive.

Netwrix auditor does what is needs to but watch out for hidden cost

Opmerkingen: Started off ok, but when the extra bill came and rude sales guy started in we were more than happy to turn this off. We moved to a fully managed SOC.

Pluspunten:

I liked I could get reports on who made changes to everything on my domain. I knew when someone adjusted a group policy, created a user, or made a change in SQL.

Minpunten:

We set this up to monitor employees only. We did not want to monitor students or service accounts because of the extra cost. The count on the user side showed 2000+ and we were not licensed. I opened a support ticket with the company and was told not to worry about it because it would just not monitor any user because of the license. I didn't like the answer, but it was still monitoring so much more. Then a year later I was hit with a huge bill because we had 2000+ people being monitored. We decided to just turn of the service.

Great Website, Slick Interface. Awful Support

Opmerkingen: IT reported the technical support was responsive, but my experience with customer support was very negative. I had several instances of emails going unanswered, sometimes but not always because my contact left the company and our account was never handed over appropriately.

Pluspunten:

The website trial shows off the features of the software while also teaching how to perform a user access audit. The user interface is very clean, user-friendly, intuitive, and snappy. The software comes with a lot of explanations for the built-in reports to help users understand what the report is used for. The software also makes it really easy to monitor the organization, with alerts for unacceptable actions or for unusual behavior above thresholds.

Minpunten:

Our IT department spent a long time working on getting some of the features and reports working, with some success, but many reports and features were never fixed after a whole year of working with support. Apparently Netwrix support was responsive, but their fixes often failed to work.

Netwix Auditor Program is the best overall in features, performance and price despite it's stepback.

Opmerkingen: Using Netwrix Auditor is good overall, and I can recommend it to be a valuable product that would save you much time in monitoring your server, treats, alerts and reports.

Pluspunten:

Netwrix Auditor is one of the best preforming program overall, it is user friendly and easy to understand and it is advance in treat detection and aid in our IT overall protection.It has numerous upscaling features that make it stand out above other similar products.It is inexpensive and will give you value for your money.

Minpunten:

I realized that it is not easy to use, more time would require to understand how to set it up properly.when running, it show error sometimes that is not understandable.

For admins only - but powerful if you know how to use it

Opmerkingen: It was a steep learning curve to configure and initially use. There was good help from customer service but still quite painful. But it is usefull and required now that it is up and running.

Pluspunten:

IT's very powerful. It adds so much usefull functionality to the existing windows auditing that it can really manage the servers/office3365 ect well form a security/compliance/auditing point of view.

Minpunten:

It's difficult to configure. It can be offputting to those who are not technical. Not really for smaller businesses.

If you are held to a number of regulatory governances, Netwrix Auditor is for you

Opmerkingen: If ever anyone is requiring a software that will audit their systems, I immediately recommend Netwrix because of the community presence (I have dealt with them primarily on the Spiceworks forums), and their amazing canned reports.

Pluspunten:

The amount of data you can collect about security events, group changes, object moves and deletions, system and file access (and much more) is astounding, especially considering the price. If I need to track something new that I wasn't thinking of when I bought this software, I only need to dig a little and there's something there already for me to utilize. The variety of things we can monitor from a system level is fantastic too. Windows domains, file servers, Office 365, VMWare, SharePoint, SQL and more...each type of audit task yields the same types of reports as the other. Easy color coding for quick visual assessment. Setting up is a cinch. The documentation has just about everything you'll need to get running, and the knowledgebase handles all the extra gotchas that you may run into if you have a temperamental environment :) Probably one of my favorite things about Netwrix Auditor: no-nonsense licensing.

Minpunten:

I think that the UI change from the prior major version to the new was the most jarring. I suspect it wouldn't have been as difficult to understand had I started with the newest UI.

Great Tool for Sys Admins

Opmerkingen: Overall, I am extremely satisfied in this product for the features and function that save time. Having this tool has provided value several times over since installation several years ago, and the proof is in the pudding. It works and provides valuable insight into system health and the WHO, WHAT, WHEN and WHERE.

Pluspunten:

Easily identify the 4 W's: Who, what, when, where. Eliminates sifting through several event logs to find the relevant information. Allows easy investigation into changes not authorized or a failed system. Alerts easy to setup for notifications of items you need to know about.

Minpunten:

Occasionally, services fail and don't stop, so monitoring the service doesn't tell you that there is a problem until it is too late. No preventative as I would like.

Netwrix Suite

Opmerkingen: After getting the system up and running it has been a great tool for being proactive when monitoring our environment. The automated reports work great.

Pluspunten:

Automation!! Set it and forget it. Once you set up the items you want to monitor, you have the ability to shift your focus to other important items and then be alerted when the criteria matches your rules.

Minpunten:

A little complicated to get things working at first.

Great product, easy to use & helps with GDPR compliance

Opmerkingen: Netwrix saves me time not having to go through continuous logs. I can just run reports on demand and review the scheduled reports. It also ensures helps to manage permissions and AD accounts. Netwrix saves me quite a bit of time on a weekly basis.

Pluspunten:

Consolidates logs, easy to access reports on AD/file server changes. You are also able to set up alerts for account lockouts, failed logins and more. Netwrix can also help detect ransomware by reporting on bulk file changes (thankfully this isn't an issue for us). The application is easy to set up and navigate.

Minpunten:

Whilst the modular approach is great for price/budgeting, it's a shame you can't trial the different modules for 30/60/90 days before making a decision on which modules to implement.

A lot of features at a good price.

Opmerkingen: It has been used to show my company does take securing sensitive information seriously.

Pluspunten:

Netwrix Auditor audits a lot of different products such as SQL Server, Windows Servers, Active Directory and NetApp file servers. It is very consistent in its runs and produces reports and alerts that our US government clients fully accept. It has helped my company receive numerous accreditation for performing auditing properly.

Minpunten:

It can be difficult to configure and sometimes fails during a heavy load. Although it may fail every now and then, it will go back and gather the information it missed in the last run and get backup to date on the audits.

An Auditor's best friend.

Opmerkingen: It performs a multitude of different Auditing tasks for us, making PCI and SOX compliance much simpler.

Pluspunten:

It just works. Set it up once, and the daily/weekly jobs run without any further effort. We have our reports sent to our ticketing system, making the daily review a breeze.

Minpunten:

Reporting filters can be a little confusing to use at times, and customization options are limited, requiring editing config files rather than within the GUI.

Highly resourceful tool

Pluspunten:

Ease of Use, depth of visibility to AD changes, realtime SMS alert and password change notification alert. Above listed requirements and key reasons why the tool is resourceful to Howard's team.

Minpunten:

Task scheduler failure (sometimes) and interpretation of forwarded logs to SIEM. There are few items that can be improved upon to maximize resourcefulness.

One good solution for security.

Opmerkingen: Overall my experience has been good. It has helped save our bacon.

Pluspunten:

Allows you to setup email notifications to help keep your network and infrastructure secure. Works very well.

Minpunten:

Cost. Is a little pricey for what you get. The overall product works well and is worth the money for what it provides.

The Product does exactly what is described and we haven't had any issues. Very happy with it!

Opmerkingen: Benefits of saving time with the password reminder. It was so good that we recommended it to a giant healthcare industry company.

Pluspunten:

Always works. Extremely easy to use! You set it and forget it for what we are using it for. When I have to go back to it I actually remember where things are which shows that it has great design.

Netwrix has allowed us to keep an eye on our environment.

Pluspunten:

The Netwrix auditor suite has many tools that come with the solution out of the box. This allows us to deploy auditing in our environment, as needed.

Minpunten:

There are a couple of the new auditing tools in Netwrix that require a separate license. These tools should be included in the solution.

This is an important tool, especially in a large environment with only 1 IT Staff or even a team!

Opmerkingen: Being able to discover issues with users that may not be reported to me. Compliance reporting is now a simple task!

Pluspunten:

Visibility, notifications/alerts, reports and bringing all of the data down to earth in a nice format.

Minpunten:

If there is a problem, it sometimes can be difficult to solve. Redundant reports/categories are a bit confusing but not a deal breaker. Would be nice to know specifically what/where data a given report is pulling from to isolate what you may need.

Netwrix Elevates Your Security Posture

Opmerkingen: My experience with Netwrix has been awesome. It is easy to start up and get going, but you can do an endless amount of things with it as your environment and/or your policies change.

Pluspunten:

The visibility, insight, alerting, reporting and response time it gives you to watch and respond to security events in your environment.

Minpunten:

It is very expensive. They get you with the entry price then jack up the price at renewal.

Love Netwrix

Pluspunten:

Great alerting and customizing. We use it to send alerts for AD and Windows Fileshares. Each version has made it better and better.

Minpunten:

For some reason it doesn't always see when user lockout. All other alerts work great.

Ease of use

Opmerkingen: AD oversight is the key benefit for us.

Pluspunten:

Easy to set up an distribute new monitoring reports.

Minpunten:

Nothing comes to mind! It ha been useful for much of the monitoring we ask of it.

Netwrix Auditor

Opmerkingen: We've been using NA for years and so far it's great.

Pluspunten:

Ease of use and interface. Preset auditing set up.

Minpunten:

Database can be large and sometimes the KB are obsolete.

With the new 9.-0client setup and monitoring has become much easier

Pluspunten:

I like how easy it is to deploy and upgrade. The new 9.0 interface is a great improvement over the previous version.

Netwrix has been a big win for our organization.

Opmerkingen: Auditing our environment from a compliance and troubleshooting perspective is a real value add.

Pluspunten:

Features is #1. Auditing should be flexible and usable. Reports are comprehensive and easy to use. RBAC plays a role with transparency.

Minpunten:

Real time alerting is missing. Give people options to use agents. The upgrade made functional changes without being clear on the differences. All small things, but I'd ensure a change log exists and reviewable online. Maybe an RSS feed or blog?

Audit Software

Opmerkingen: Taking over this product from previous administration, left a bad impression of the product, having worked with the technical team to get the product up and running, has re-invested my confidence in the product.

Pluspunten:

The functionality of the software is impressive for tracking active directory changes and modifications.

Minpunten:

Some configuration challenges and support from an older version is lacking, but with reason as long as you keep the product updated, you shouldn't run into troubles. Just make sure to keep the product updated to keep along with all the products changes.

Good tool for change auditing. Lacks features like real time alerts for gpo, etc

Pluspunten:

This tool is Easy to use and configuration is easy. It is one of the best tools for change auditing.

Minpunten:

The tool has Limited real time alerts functionality. Also it has Tedious filtering of events via files