ShareWatcher vs. ManageEngine ADAudit Plus

ShareWatcher answers two questions about a Windows file share: who is accessing it, and what just happened to its files. New, changed and deleted files are reported as they happen with Live Folder Monitoring, or on a schedule with polled monitoring, which also watches FTP servers and catches files that arrived while ShareWatcher was off. Every event can send an email, play a sound, write to the Windows event log or run a command. Cadence Watcher watches for silence instead: a folder that should be filling has stopped. Actions process new files on arrival, including a QuickMove action that sorts them by rule. The Server licence records who created, changed or deleted each file (Auditing) and runs ShareWatcher as a Windows service; the Enterprise licence monitors other Windows computers remotely. Licences are one-off: Pro US$129, Server US$349, Enterprise US$749. Fully functional 30-day trial. Windows 7 SP1 to 11 and Windows Server 2012 R2 and above. Email support within 24 hours.

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.