ARCON | Privileged Access Management vs. ManageEngine ADAudit Plus

The ARCON | Privileged Access Management (PAM) solution comprehensively manages all aspects of your IT infrastructure, allowing you to create a contextual security environment for your most critical resource: your data. Its comprehensive access control capabilities enable you to customize your security protocols, granting and revoking access as you see fit, maintaining full autonomy over your system. With a focus on rule- and role-based access control, it upholds the 'least-privilege' principle, ensuring that data access is limited to what is necessary for each user. This powerful functionality allows administrators to effectively oversee, track, and manage privileged accounts down to the level of individual users. You can establish an integrated governance and access control framework for privileged identities, regardless of whether they reside on-premises, within cloud environments, in a distributed data center, or across a hybrid infrastructure. Furthermore, it includes automated password randomization and alterations to reduce the risks linked to shared credentials, thereby bolstering overall security. By deploying these stringent security measures, organizations can greatly lower their susceptibility to potential security breaches and enhance their overall cybersecurity posture. Such proactive steps not only protect sensitive data but also foster a culture of accountability and diligence within the organization.

ADAudit Plus offers comprehensive insights into all activities within your Windows Server environment, ensuring both safety and compliance. This tool provides an organized perspective on modifications made to your Active Directory (AD) resources, encompassing AD objects, their attributes, group policies, and much more. By implementing AD auditing, you can identify and address insider threats, misuse of privileges, or other potential security breaches. It grants a thorough overview of all elements in AD, including users, computers, groups, organizational units, and group policy objects. You can monitor user management actions such as deletions, password resets, and changes in permissions, along with information detailing who performed these actions, what was done, when it happened, and where. To maintain a principle of least privilege, it's essential to track additions and removals from both security and distribution groups, enabling better oversight of user access rights. This ongoing vigilance not only helps in compliance but also fortifies the overall security posture of your server environment.