Netwrix Access Analyzer 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Netwrix Access Analyzer

4.5

(15)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About Netwrix Access Analyzer

Netwrix StealthAUDIT provides a single extensible platform that helps users manage and secure their critical data, core systems and IT assets.

With 40+ built-in data collection modules covering both on-premises and cloud-based platforms, users can secure their sensitive data wherever it resides. The wizard-driven interface makes it easy to gather the necessary data, and the agentless architecture ensures a fast and lightweight collection process.

Proactively identifies conditions that put sensitive and regulated data at risk, including excessive user permissions, disabled accounts, and externally shared files. Users can minimize permissions to the least-privilege level by monitoring who is accessing which data and to what extent, and then revoking unneeded rights.

In addition, users can automatically remove excessive permissions, delete unneeded accounts, and disable rogue user accounts to shut down threats. To avoid business disruptions, users can also simulate a change first and then execute it in a single click.

The solution empowers data owners to regularly review permissions to their data and fix issues on the spot. It enables business users to request access from data own...

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Netwrix Access Analyzer Pricing and Plans

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Netwrix Access Analyzer Features

Popular features found in IT Management
Access Controls/Permissions
Capacity Management
Compliance Management
Incident Management
Issue Auditing
License Management
Maintenance Scheduling
Remote Access/Control
Server Monitoring
Ticket Management
More features of Netwrix Access Analyzer
Active Directory Integration
Activity Tracking
Ad hoc Reporting
Alerts/Notifications
API
Asset Tracking
Audit Management
Audit Trail
Compliance Tracking
Configurable Workflow
Configuration Management
Customizable Reports
Data Discovery
Data Migration
Data Security
Data Storage Management
Data Synchronization
Deletion Management
Document Storage
Monitoring
Multiple Data Sources
Policy Management
Reporting/Analytics
Reporting & Statistics
Risk Assessment
Rules-Based Workflow
Search/Filter
Secure Data Storage
Third-Party Integrations
Workflow Management

Netwrix Access Analyzer User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.5

Ratings Breakdown

53%

47%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

3.9

Value for money

4.5

Customer support

4.6

Functionality

4.4

Chad D.

Verified reviewer

Real Estate

501-1000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2020

StealhAUDIT is the best product there is for monitoring AD and file systems

Absolutely love it. It has helped me remediate authentication issues and file governance. Very easy to install and initially set up.

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Pros:

Very granular data collection and monitoring. Really love how easy it is to use once the queries are st up.

Cons:

Queries are sometimes a bit complicated to set up. Software as a whole requires a huge amount of VM resources.

Jason W.

Verified reviewer

Insurance

501-1000 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2020

StealthAUDIT is not perfect, but it's pretty darn good for the price

We have really enjoyed having StealthAUDIT at Answer Financial. The product is regularly being updated and expanded, the support has been perfect, and the company is really good about communication (both in telling us what they are working on and taking feedback from their users).

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Value for money

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Pros:

The built in reports, scanning functionalities, ability to do custom scripting, and the modularity are all major features that make StealthAUDIT appealing.

Cons:

Though it can scan and report on a lot of different types of systems, it is very limited in what can be imported into the access audit side of the software for owner approvals.

Reasons for choosing Netwrix Access Analyzer

Varonis was significantly more expensive with only a slight feature advantage.

Brian P.

Verified reviewer

Government Administration

501-1000 employees

Used monthly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2020

Adequate in a field full of inadequacy

The experience is more user friendly than Varonis and less user friendly than Netwrix. Regardless, I see no point in buying audit software that is not accurate.

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Value for money

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Pros:

StealthAudit was the only product we tested that was 100% accurate on file activity and could retain the audit data. (Methodology: create 100 files. Access the 100 files. Edit the 100 files. Delete the 100 files. Verify that creation, reads, edits, and deletions were all logged. We did this test with both text files and MS Word files as the way Office edits files is weird.) Another well-known product only logged 40% of the file activity, even after spending *weeks* with support and sales engineers to fix the issue. At one point, an engineer blamed Windows for not logging the data, and refused to look at the event log with me where I could see that Windows was logging 100% of the file activity. Whatever you buy, please verify that it works reliably before you buy it.

Cons:

Perhaps this has changed since we installed it, but the activity tracking console requires Silverlight to run, forcing me in IE rather than a current browser. It's also slow. It has crashed twice without any notification, causing me to lose all metadata between the time it crashed and the time I caught the crashes. I now know to constantly monitor the system to minimize audit data loss. This is why I describe it "adequate" rather than exceptional even when it was the only tested software that fulfilled its mission.

Reasons for choosing Netwrix Access Analyzer

Accuracy of results.

Xero Q.

Verified reviewer

Hospital & Health Care

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for free trial

Reviewed August 2025

Clearly Designed and Fast at Identifying Risky

Netwrix Access Analyzer offers a fast and straightforward experience for organizations that need a quick snapshot of file and folder permissions across Windows file systems. It’s ideal for small IT teams or early-stage audits.

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Value for money

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Pros:

It's a free tool, which makes it accessible for smaller IT teams and organizations without a large budget. It gives instant insight into effective permissions across file shares and folders, which helps with Identifying excessive or unnecessary access. It quickly highlights risky permissions that helps reduce the attack surface.

Cons:

It provides a snapshot, but not real-time monitoring, automation, or alerting for changes. There's no continuous access monitoring or scheduling of reports.

Paul C.

Verified reviewer

Banking

10000+ employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2020

StealthAUDIT vs Competitors

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

StealthAUDIT works plain and simple. It is quick responding, the AIC has everything that we need, easy to deploy and update, no fat client for our users all web based. We did an extensive POC/POV with StealthAUDIT and we were surprised the amount of data StealthAUDIT found over Varonis DatAdvantage using the same credentials and the same permissions as what Varonis was using. We scanned 5 NetApp filers and we ended up finding over 60 million more folders on those filers over Varonis. When we scanned all of production we found over 1 billion more folders than what Varonis had found. That is a huge risk that we didn't even know we had.

Cons:

The reporting function is very non user friendly unless if you know how to leverage SQL queries. I know they have ability to leverage Tableau but not everyone has that option. This is the one item where we actually had to decide if making the switch from Varonis to StealthAUDIT was a good idea or not. In the end we made the switch and we have become more proficient in report writing but we still need a reporting tool that is more user friendly.

Reasons for switching to Netwrix Access Analyzer

We asked Varonis to enhance their Automation Engine so that it would better suit our needs. The told us that they would not do that unless we purchased the tool first (fully licensed it for 83,000 users) then they wold consider making changes to it for our needs. We decided that we would look for a different tool to do automation.

Amy C.

Verified reviewer

Hospital & Health Care

5001-10000 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed March 2020

Great to understand Active Directory and Filesystem environments and know where sensitive data is

We implemented StealthAUDIT for data governance and management of unstructured data in shared folders. We have been able to identify open shares/folders and restrict access appropriately. We are able to monitor activity on file shares. The process is helping to identify data stewards and holding them responsible for the data they own. We know where sensitive data resides and then delete it if no longer needed or we can ensure access is restricted.

Ratings Breakdown

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Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

StealthAUDIT provides a lot of information about our Active Directory and Filesystem via numerous reports that give you an overall picture, recent changes, and situations that may need to be investigated and remediated. Finding sensitive data works well, although it does take some tweaking of criteria to reduce false positives. The system was fairly easy to set up with a dedicated technical implementation team that was responsive to questions and issues. The support team is very responsive.

Cons:

It took some time to get a handle on the scheduling of processing for our needs. Some of the jobs can run quite long and you need to be aware of contention between jobs as things can get backed up or cause SQL database logs to grow quickly. While there is a lot of documentation available, sometimes it is a challenge to find the information you need. More comprehensive initial training could be helpful to get new admins going quickly.

Reasons for choosing Netwrix Access Analyzer

Features/functionality, price

Verified

Reviewer

Financial Services

10000+ employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2020

Aging but useful

We use StealthAUDIT to provide data insight into our Active Directory environments, in order to maintain our security posture at a high level.

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Value for money

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Pros:

Best thing about StealthAUDIT is that it allows you to acquire data in almost whatever manner you are most comfortable with, and then allows you to do useful things with it.

Cons:

The UI is dated, the capabilities are poorly documented, and it's not easy to clear out no longer useful data.

Brandon C.

Verified reviewer

Real Estate

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2020

Great product and support

Wit really helps with LPA, and ensure our users have the appropriate access. It also has great security reporting tools.

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Value for money

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Pros:

The ability to see data and statistics about any user through an easy GUI. The support is top notch, stealth consistently reaches out to my teams to ensure we’re supported and using the product appropriately.

Cons:

It can be cumbersome to configure and setup.

Jay M.

Verified reviewer

Financial Services

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2020

Excellent Data Governance Tool

Very trusted platform. It helps us meet external audit requests.

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Value for money

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Functionality

Pros:

The platform is feature rich. We use it to protect AD, MS Exchange, File server & SharePoint Online. It is used as data governance tool to secure sensitive data & enforce least-privileged access control

Cons:

I would have liked wizard driven configuration setup.

David B.

Verified reviewer

Events Services

501-1000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2020

StealthIntercept/StealthAudit

Great team supporting this software, they continually improve on the features and functionality of the software.

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Value for money

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Functionality

Pros:

Software has the best support and customer service, anytime you need to know more of the product or get some functionality added the support team goes above and beyond to support their end users.

Cons:

There is a little bit of a learning curve initially with the software but the support team is great in getting end user education along with supporting the end user.

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