Use-case 22: How To Monitor Administrative Group Modifications In Your

Use-case 22: How To Monitor Administrative Group Modifications In Your

A crucial aspect of IT auditing is knowing which users have administrative privileges and manage them accordingly. Users who are a part of the Domain Admin group have UNRESTRICTED access to the entire Active Directory and its resources. If this access could fall into wrong hands, the user can ram other admin users, man-handle critical resources and bring the whole domain down



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Now how do we prevent this? 

ADAudit Plus has exclusive reports to monitor administrative group modification.  


Step 1: Kindly go to Configuration --> Report Profile Categories --> Group Modification.






Step 2: Click on Modify Report Profile for Modified Admin Groups --> Add your administrative groups to the Select Groups list --> Click on Update.






Step 3: Go to Reports --> Profile Based reports --> Choose you Domain --> Group Modification --> Administrative Group Modified

Choose the Period(time period).




Step 4: At a later point, Alerts can be configured to send real time notification on group modification by email




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