Windows Security Audit Tools

Present world is running on digital, within the past decade growth in the computing world

increased rapidly. Attacks against the organizations infrastructure also increased rapidly. Cyber

attacks increased and have existed as long as computing infrastructure have. Cybercrime attacks

increased within no time. Attacking organizations infrastructure and gaining access to resources,

stealing secret information, even vandalizing infrastructure causing millions of dollars’ loss to

the organization.

IT management plays a key role in any organization to fight against the attackers and secure the

organizations infrastructure small or complex. Implementing proper policies, access controls,

processes to an organizations infrastructure helps to secure the organization infrastructure from

the external attackers.

However, attack against the organization infrastructure cannot be eliminated completely, it will

continue as long as computing world exits. So, for every organization monitoring plays an

important role to monitor organization infrastructure. Security auditing on regular bases helps to

remove and gives a good idea of what is going on in organization infrastructure.

Security Auditing tools helps organization to monitor their infrastructure here, are some

windows security auditing tools:

 Form.com

 Intelex

 Reciprocity

 Onspring

 Fluix

 iAuditor
 Qualityze

 Nagios

 DataDog

Above are the some of the windows security auditing tools which helps organization to monitor

the infrastructure visually, creating picharts, graphs, to analyze the data using dashboard in UI.

Some of the best practices for security audits are:

 Secured organization is well administered.

 Installing Antivirus software’s.

 Updating patches regularly in order to improve efficiency of the software and functions

effectively.

 Avoid using outdated applications and operating systems.

 Avoid Misconfigurations leads to improper functioning of software.

 Audit Credential Validations, Users accounts, file sharing, file system.

 Terminating unused or left employees account.

 Auditing Account logon, management, objects access, keep tracking policies changes and

auditing.

 Regularly updating software’s with the latest versions to fix the bugs in the previous

versions.

 Auditing Network policies, firewall rules, Access control list, inbound and outbound rules.

 Auditing Ipsec, updating the firewall rules.

 Generating reports in every audit to keep track of changes and changes need to be done.

Above are the some of the best practices for security auditing. They are many more steps to be

consider to secure the organization and again secured organization is well administrated.
Reference:

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