Netwrix Auditor Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services Reviews & Insights

Score8.5 out of 10

56 Reviews and Ratings

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Pros

Helpful Notifications: Several users have found Netwrix Auditor's ability to send warnings to users about expiring passwords and notifications for multiple failed logons to be helpful in preventing lockouts, spotting suspicious activity, and assisting with password changes.

Flexible Customization: Many reviewers appreciate the flexibility provided by Netwrix Auditor's 'Search' function, which allows them to create custom notifications and reports. This feature enables users to monitor specific events and set up email reports tailored to their needs.

Useful Alerts: Users highly value the alerts provided by Netwrix Auditor as they aid in identifying account lockouts, uncovering firewall issues, and offering insights into various aspects of the environment. The alerts are seen as a valuable tool for monitoring and maintaining system security effectively.

Netwrix Auditor Reviews

4 Reviews

Professional, Scientific, and Technical ServicesInformation Technology & Services3Research1

Netwrix Auditor provides an awesome suite of monitoring and reporting software, even the free version!

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

May 10, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Netwrix Auditor to inspect and get alerts and daily reports of our technology environment, specifically in regards to servers, network switches, accounts locked out, file-level accesses, etc. Other features include things like logging users logging on to the domain, logging and sending email alerts regarding Active Directory changes, and much much more.

Pros

Sends alerts via email.
Sends scheduled log reports.
Keeps track of changes in Active Directory.

Cons

So far, we haven't experienced any issues with Netwrix Auditor.

Likelihood to Recommend

Netwrix Auditor is highly recommended for businesses of all sizes, even small ones since they have certain free features that even the smallest of businesses can take advantage of. It will certainly be beneficial for medium to large businesses when they take advantage of the paid features. In a real sense, Netwrix Auditor alerts and reports are an invaluable asset in our environment.

Verified User

Professional in Information Technology (Information Technology & Services company, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Netwrix Auditor is the powerful data classification tool

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 22, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Netwrix Auditor for GDPR and ISO 27001 compliance analysis. Netwrix has pre-configured reports to match company data to ISO 27001 requirements which simplifies the detection and remediation of potential issues.

Pros

Data Tagging and Auditing
Identify the sensitive information
Ensure regulatory compliance

Cons

Better or more pre-defined incident response decisions

Likelihood to Recommend

Netwrix Auditor is a great product, really easy to deploy and agentless. Pre-defined reports and analysis are really useful, and the product is overall very well designed and understandable.

Verified User

Professional in Information Technology (Information Technology & Services company, 1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Best Auditing with Netwrix Auditor

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

January 15, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using it in ICT department only and following features are being used:

Active Directory Auditor
File Server Auditor
Windows Servers Auditor
VMware Architecture Auditor
User Activity Auditor

Through all above we are basically auditing systems administrator and their work over the systems. And specially housekeeping of AD and all other servers to fit with compliance.

Pros

Full Domain Controller activity monitoring.
Video recording of system admins without and limit.
VMware user activity monitoring and auditing.
Audit user activity over network devices.
Windows File Server access monitoring and audit.

Cons

Cisco with IOS 16 and above is not supported under Network Devices.
System Up and Down Status.
Reporting.

Likelihood to Recommend

Best Suited:
If you want audit your systems which are Windows then this tool is best and it also provide details on SQL and Oracle database and also provide good info for AD.

Not Suited:
If you want to audit Linux, Suse or ubuntu or any other operating system other than Windows then don't go for it. It only supports Microsoft Architecture.

Waqas Asghar Sipra

Deputy Manager (Services Support & Backup Admin North) in Information Technology at Fauji Fertilizer Bin Qaism Limited (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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Netwrix Auditor, a Great Product at a Great Price

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

January 18, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Netwrix Auditor is used by my company to audit all of the systems we use. These include file servers (both Windows and NetApp), SQL servers, web servers. SharePoint servers, Active Directory and many other types of servers. We use it to make certain that staff do not access files that they are not permitted to access, and that they are not attempting to log in into a server that they should not be logging into. This information has come in very useful in the past and will do so in the future. It is also often used by projects to find out what files users who are allowed to access certain files are actually accessing.

Pros

Netwrix Auditor performs the audit collection process in a method that does not burden the systems it is auditing. It usually just pulls the log and event logs data from the machine it is auditing and then performs the extraction of the information in these files on the Netwrix Auditor server. This reducing the audit processes to only pulling log data from the server but does not keep the server busy processing the data.
Once the log data has been pulled from a server being audited, Netwrix will store the log data in a compressed form in its Long Term Archive. This allows the database to be kept smaller than the all the data being kept in the Log Term Archive and therefore makes creating reports much faster since the database is not as big as it could be.
Since Netwrix Auditor uses standard Microsoft SQL Server and SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) to perform reporting, working with the results of the audit is much easier. Anyone who knows SQL Server and SSRS can work with the data and create their own reports.
The predefined reports that come with Netwrix Auditor cover most of the items required to properly report on the status of a system. They have many predefined reports for FedRamp, PCI, HIPPA, and other compliance regulations.

Cons

Netwrix Auditor needs to improve its loading of Long Term Archive (LTA) data back into the database. I have been trying to load one month of LTA data back into the database for a few months now, but it can take a few days to successfully load just a few weeks of data. I have now started to attempt to load only two weeks of data at a time in the hopes that it will not destroy the data already loaded. I'm still working on this attempt. Netwrix Support told me that the only designed the reloading of LTA to work on a few days worth of data, but I need to be able to possibly seven years of data in the future. They are currently working on a solution to allow me to perform this task.
Netwrix needs to simply their database structure so it is easier to create your own reports. If they can't make the database structure any easier, they need to document it much more. The database documentation is very sparse and doesn't really state how you can use the database. There are many items I can find in the database but some items I have just given up on since it can be quite a task to find the data in the database.
Netwrix needs to release some form of internal documentation so clients can see what is happening during the audit data collection. I have specialists in certain areas of our systems, such as NetApp file server, ask me how it performs some of the auditing, and all I can say is "I'm not sure, I can ask but they probably won't be able to tell me."

Likelihood to Recommend

Netwrix Auditor is well suited to perform audit data collection on many types of servers that require audit data to be collected. It runs fairly quickly and usually informs you if something went wrong in the data collection. They do need to have better documentation and some form of internal documentation to help the users who understand what is happening in their system to help them through the process of figuring out when something went wrong.

Glenn Jones

Sr. Systems and Security Architect in Information Technology at Mathematica Policy Research (Research, 1001-5000 employees)

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3 years of experience

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Netwrix Auditor, a Great Product at a Great Price

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

January 18, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

Netwrix Auditor performs the audit collection process in a method that does not burden the systems it is auditing. It usually just pulls the log and event logs data from the machine it is auditing and then performs the extraction of the information in these files on the Netwrix Auditor server. This reducing the audit processes to only pulling log data from the server but does not keep the server busy processing the data.
Once the log data has been pulled from a server being audited, Netwrix will store the log data in a compressed form in its Long Term Archive. This allows the database to be kept smaller than the all the data being kept in the Log Term Archive and therefore makes creating reports much faster since the database is not as big as it could be.
Since Netwrix Auditor uses standard Microsoft SQL Server and SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) to perform reporting, working with the results of the audit is much easier. Anyone who knows SQL Server and SSRS can work with the data and create their own reports.
The predefined reports that come with Netwrix Auditor cover most of the items required to properly report on the status of a system. They have many predefined reports for FedRamp, PCI, HIPPA, and other compliance regulations.

Cons

Netwrix Auditor needs to improve its loading of Long Term Archive (LTA) data back into the database. I have been trying to load one month of LTA data back into the database for a few months now, but it can take a few days to successfully load just a few weeks of data. I have now started to attempt to load only two weeks of data at a time in the hopes that it will not destroy the data already loaded. I'm still working on this attempt. Netwrix Support told me that the only designed the reloading of LTA to work on a few days worth of data, but I need to be able to possibly seven years of data in the future. They are currently working on a solution to allow me to perform this task.
Netwrix needs to simply their database structure so it is easier to create your own reports. If they can't make the database structure any easier, they need to document it much more. The database documentation is very sparse and doesn't really state how you can use the database. There are many items I can find in the database but some items I have just given up on since it can be quite a task to find the data in the database.
Netwrix needs to release some form of internal documentation so clients can see what is happening during the audit data collection. I have specialists in certain areas of our systems, such as NetApp file server, ask me how it performs some of the auditing, and all I can say is "I'm not sure, I can ask but they probably won't be able to tell me."

Likelihood to Recommend

Glenn Jones

Sr. Systems and Security Architect in Information Technology at Mathematica Policy Research (Research, 1001-5000 employees)

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3 years of experience

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