Microsoft Active Directory has become the authoritative source for Identity and Access Management. Regulatory requirements and data protection laws mandate that administrative access to critical data, including that stored in Active Directory, must be diligently controlled and documented.

Understanding security risk on the global enterprise network is essential to comprehensive IT risk management. However, the high rate of change on enterprise networks, the constantly changing threat environment, and increased focus on internal and regulatory compliance have made this task increasingly difficult.

Unified Access and Authority Management of Cross-Platform Systems and Applications based upon Active Directory and the Centrify Suite. Centrify helps you to reduce IT expenses and to simplify complexity via identity consolidation and integration of UNIX, Linux and Mac systems and popular applications with Microsoft Active Directory. Centrify also improves end-user productivity via integrated authentication and single sign-on.

SQL compliance manager is a comprehensive SQL Server auditing solution that uses policy- based algorithms to track changes to your SQL Server objects and data. SQL compliance manager gives you detailed visibility to determine who did “what”, “when”, “where”, and “how”, whether the event is initiated by privileged users or hackers. SQL compliance manager helps you to ensure compliance with regulatory and data security requirements such as Sarbanes-Oxley, GLBA, HIPAA (HITECH), PCI, and Basel l and II. SQL compliance manager goes beyond traditional auditing ap­proaches by providing real-time monitoring and auditing of all data access, updates, schema modifications, and permission changes.

Improved process can enable higher quality IT services and drive efficiency, but many IT workers are resistant to learning new processes and changing their habits. There should be a way to enable process that ensures consistent execution and reduces the heavy documentation burden, without introducing approval delays or spending hours training staff on paper-based processes.

Safend's Data Protection Suite delivers complete visibility, control, and protection of enterprise endpoints. Safend Data Protection Suite is intuitive to manage, almost impossible to circumvent, and guarantees connectivity and productivity, without sacrificing security or performance. Safend provides a comprehensive data protection solution in a single product, with a single management server and a single, lightweight agent.

Ensuring that systems are always configured properly is critical to both compliance and security initiatives. But gaining visibility into system configurations and their compliance status is a significant challenge, especially with the rapid rate of change in enterprise networks. Additionally, demonstrating to auditors that systems are compliant can be a manual, time consuming project that is inefficient and potentially ineffective.

To securely leverage the powerful capabilities of Microsoft GroupPolicy, organizations need the ability to model and predictthe business impact of Group Policy changes before they aredeployed to the enterprise. An error or a malicious, unauthorizedchange can have devastating business consequences, such asdenying access to critical resources or weakening security controlsthat could result in a data breach. However, native tools provideno way to model and predict the impact of changes; rather,changes are immediately replicated into the live Microsoft ActiveDirectory environment and Microsoft Windows platforms—leaving the enterprise vulnerable to downtime or breach.

NetIQ Change Guardian for Active Directory minimizes the risks associated with operational changes to Active Directory. The product provides the visibility you need to protect your Active Directory environment from dangerous security exposures and costly service disruptions by automating and simplifying Active Directory change monitoring.

NetIQ Change Guardian for Group Policy minimizes the risks associated with Group Policy Object (GPO) change management and helps determine and document all authorized and unauthorized Group Policy changes to the live environment.