All Netwrix Auditor Reviews
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Sam
201 - 500 employees
Used more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
Reviewed June 2021
Great Tool for Sys Admins
Anonymous
1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed January 2019
The additional set of eyes you need.
Netwrix Auditor was easy to deploy and you can very quickly gain deep insights into what is occurring in your environment. A huge positive is that a single application can provide data for so many different environments.
CONSNot a knock against the software itself, but in some cases, requirements for certain audit features could be documented a bit better or more centrally. Perhaps this has been improved upon since my initial deployment 5+ years ago.
Max
Construction, 201-500 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed June 2021
Great Multipurpose Auditing Tool!
Overall, things have been great while using the Netwrix Auditor. Support is fantastic, the tool has a lot of useful reports for compliance, permissions, identifying broken accounts, monitoring and more. The Active Directory auditing is also useful; something I missed on putting in the Pro section because of a character limit. I hope others find this tool as helpful as I have.
PROSLet me start off by saying that there are many things to love about the Netwrix Auditor. If you are looking for a tool that can bring value and accountability to your department, continue reading. One of the primary things I like about the Netwrix Auditor is the reporting tool; there are reports for anything you can think of. These reports are useful to present to different departments in your company for different things. Management may find utile reports that show all permissions a folder has. This can help them weed out any members that should not have access to things. The IT department may also find useful reports that identity orphaned SIDs. There are also reports that can be used for anomaly detection - meaning, when a mass action (such as a deletion and movement of files) is done, an email will be sent. Another facet of the Netwrix Auditor I like is the setup of the subscription plans. Unlike the ad-hoc nature of reports, these subscription plans can be used to run certain reports on a schedule. This allows you to always be informed when things are triggered or when looking for a scheduled report needed for management. The alerting feature works great and has never caused an issue. One last Pro I will mention is how easy it is to upgrade the Netwrix Auditor. When there is a new version being released, upgrading is very straight forward. Upgrading retains your monitoring plans, subscription reports, and also providers better features with the new version.
CONSThe only Con I can mention about the Netwrix Auditor is that the reporting feature can appear difficult to use. You will spend some time trying to get reports to work with the fields they give you. Although, it's not difficult, you just need to jump into it. Support will very gladly help you with any issues or bumps you run into; support is amazing! Given what they offer in reporting, this is my only minor complaint. If you ever find that you are looking for a report they don't have, contact support.
Stan
Consumer Goods, 201-500 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
3
EASE OF USE
2
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
2
Reviewed July 2017
I have found the most reliable feature of the software is "No data is available "
The visibility on changes in Active Directory is incredibly valuable.
PROSWhen the software works as advertised the information collection and reporting is far easier than attempting to extract the date from convoluted Microsoft logs using problematic scripts. The advertised data collection is extensive, and covers the most critical areas needed by a small business IT department with a limited staff. The active directory reporting is incredibly valuable and should be a mandatory for any business with or without a dedicated IT department.
CONSGetting the data collection to work, and then keeping the data collection working is almost nothing short of an exercise in futility. The purpose of the software is to collect and report data, and yet Netwrix does not seem to hold back on making the process seem like a customer problem by providing numerous dead end resolutions. The lack of data collection troubleshooting tools does not go unnoticed.
Anthony
Non-Profit Organization Management, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed December 2018
Netwrix Auditor (AD, File, Windows Server, Logon Activity Auditing)
My Company has been using Netwrix since 2013, and it has been great for us. We love the reports that it generates around our Active Directory, Exchange, Windows Servers etc., including the alerts that we subscribe to for delivery. We've also used the Audit reports for our Auditing request, which we can produce in minutes with Netwrix, which used to take us days to put together. We've also used as a training tool to teach helpdesk level personnel, as it helped us capture errors that were done in Active Directory (and reverted back with the nifty Rollback feature), and that allowed us to customize training for an new employees while working in Active Directory. Wading through event viewer events is no fun and very tedious, enter Netwrix that makes much more efficient, as you can build reports on a specific object and/or date range. I can’t tell you how many times we've used it to trace a lockout of a user and where exactly the user was being locked out from - incredibly helpful, as this occurs with regularity. Netwrix has been absolutely brilliant for us, it's auditing, alerting and reporting capabilities has been and continues to be of great use for my Company. I must also give kudos to the Netwrix helpdesk, as there are very knowledgeable and have assisted successfully on numerous occasions. Highly recommend Netwrix for any company that’s looking to audit their internal systems, with great reporting and alerting for all your critical and non-critical systems.
PROSEase of installation and usage, Reporting, alerts, etc.
CONSI noticed that the new version of Netwrix tends to eat up a lot more hardrive disk space, but this is due to fine tuning Audit. Without proper tuning, it will easily eat up 100GB - which is what I experienced.
Jordan
Verified reviewer
Consumer Goods, 51-200 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed October 2018
Great tool for network visibility
I find visibility to be one of the greatest tools as a network manager. Netwrix gives me the ability to monitor file actions as well as account actions that may tip me off to a security breach on the network. Or, if an employee wants to know the exact reason a file went missing I am able to query Netwrix and provide an exact answer, even a screen capture of the event in progress if I wanted. With customizable notifications I am able to get on the spot information when specific events occur, like somebody attempting to log into a Domain Administrator's account without authorization. Though a little expensive, it is better to have the security Netwrix auditor provides than to allow a network breach go unnoticed until it is too late.
PROSEasy to setup monitor AD, Logs, Events, etc customizable notifications visibility into files, Group Policy, Active Directory, Office 365, Azure, etc advanced features that help track down file actions, like screen captures or recordings of the actual event
CONSThe interface is sluggish can cause some network interference if not tuned properly cost
Christopher
Verified reviewer
Banking, 11-50 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed January 2019
Great Overview of your Systems
I have been able to provide real-time reporting for AD changes and several other administrative functions that we did not have the ability to before which has allowed the institution to focus on our core products and information flow.
PROSWe are a smaller financial institution with limited staff and the automated reporting has been a great time saver for me to review various selected events. There are more than enough predefined reports to meet many of our oversight needs
CONSI do have some issues with trying to understand the licensing and when we had to had other modules. Perhaps someone coming from an IT administration or CIO background would understand it better.
Paul
Verified reviewer
Aviation & Aerospace, 51-200 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed January 2019
Netwrix Auditor for Dummies
We got this product to assist with our NIST 800-171 compliance with our aerospace customers. The logs and information it provides are invaluable.
PROSIt's very easy to configure most of what you'll want to log directly out of the box. The parts that are a little more confusing are easily done with talking to support. This is overall a great product and one that I've needed for years.
CONSWhen you don't work with the setups on a regular basis it's sometimes time consuming to go back and make changes or add/delete things. Since it basically runs itself I haven't touched the setup in months.
Kevin
Warehousing, 201-500 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed January 2018
Product has consistently worked and is very reliable
Saved a lot of time with end users.
PROSThe product has always worked for us and is extremely easy to manage. The cost was definitely right for the product.
CONSOnly problem is that I haven't explored all the options that Netwrix has to offer. The have a wide range of products and I've just scratched the surface.
Anonymous
51-200 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed April 2019
Excellent auditing tool
This is a Swiss army knife of auditing tools. It's very flexible, and can audit about any major software you use, including online clouds such as Office 365.
CONSThe interface is not the most intuitive.
Anonymous
201-500 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed January 2019
Where did that file go?
We use most of the functionality but it allows us to easily diagnose files that have "gone missing" due to user error.
CONSSometimes it takes awhile to return a query. Other than that I have no complaints.
Jack
Computer & Network Security, 51-200 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed July 2017
Invaluable solution for our Microsoft Active Directory auditing requirements.
Ease of addressing our Microsoft audit/compliance activities.
PROSNetwrix provides a thorough, easy to use interface to address supporting documentation for almost all of our Microsoft audit requirements. We have been able to easily produce the documentation and evidence for all requests from our audit team with ease. Something that used to take a considerable amount of time to compile.
CONSWould prefer that the client be web based, as opposed to the Windows client that is used today. Additional detail in error reports to help identify exactly what is not working would be extremely helpful as well. We occasionally have to do quite a bit of exploration to determine exactly what component is generating the error.
Akash
Information Technology and Services, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed July 2017
Netwrix is great, simple to setup, easy to use.
Auditing of Active Directory and File Servers. Password expiration notification, disabling unused computer and user accounts.
PROSNetwrix is very easy to use, very easy to setup. It provides great information and lets you audit your environment very easily
CONSDocumentation could be a little better, but support was great with assisting in setup and they constantly reach out to see how things are going.
Dennis
Banking, 11-50 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed July 2017
Great for audit and exams.
Audit compliance.
PROSI like the daily reports that Netwrix sends to the Officers on the network functions. Federal and state guidelines require someone keeps track of the network admins changes to the network. Netwrix Auditor emails a morning report every work day describing the changes made to Active Directory on all our Domain Controllers.
Jesse
Utilities, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed July 2017
Easy to implement and quickly gain value from reporting
Various default reports are vary useful... i.e. NIST, PCI, etc. reporting
PROSQuick and easy deployment. Most features do not require an agent. Video monitoring of server sessions is a really cool features that we actually use.
CONSBecause there is to no support for Cisco products, we are forced to look into alternatives for a fully capable SIEM.
Rich
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed July 2017
While it may lack features a few people will claim are needed, it offers what most people need.
The prebuilt reports for so many areas of compliance. The option to install a client rather than RDPing to the server is nice.
CONSThe arduous task of creating an alert via the server console. And on this console (and I know this is not technically a SEIM), it would be nice if there were already pre-built alerts that we could simply enable for the most common security threats. The client interface is great for showing you what you are looking for if you wanted to print a PDF. I don't want a PDF view in the interface though. I want to see data returned in rows that I can filter live, sort columns, drill down on data, pivot on data, etc... Again, these features encroach on SEIM territory, but for what this product is, it kinda should have it. I am open to discussing further if you need more clarification.
Santosh
Information Technology and Services, 10,000+ employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed July 2017
Now we can find out and monitored Administrative changes in our domain.
Able to monitored administrative changes happening in our domain.
PROSI like Data collection method about this software. Summary change audit reports are good which save time to generate report and check.
CONSUpgraded versions having complex reporting module which creates problem while generating any reports.
Stephen
Legal Services, 51-200 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed January 2019
IT Manager
You can't go wrong with Netwrix Auditor! It is a good products among a line of good products.
PROSI like that I have can a "one-stop shop" for all my auditing needs. Very easy to use and the support folks are great!
CONSThat I had to remove the old version - which was a big pain.
Stephen
Law Practice, 51-200 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed July 2017
Very easy to use! Real deal!
Was able to meet auditing needs and compliance issues.
PROSIt catches things that you need to catch! You can set it and forget or you can generate all kinds of reports.
CONSSometimes it is a little slow at getting the reports to pull - it gets what I need but would like to be faster.
Ron
Utilities, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed January 2019
Netwrix Auditor
Easy to set up and configure - we use it for password expiration notices
CONSI wouldn't say we have any cons - might not be as full featured as some other tools, but its easy, quick and very inexpensive
Nicole
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed July 2017
We purchased Netwrix after looking at many other options for auditing as required by clients.
Easy to use and setup, support is great and very responsive. Cost was a huge factor but I do not feel that we lost any capability by choosing Netwrix over other solutions. Having Netwrix reports and information has helped us greatly with client audits. Takes away some of the concern about activity in our systems as I'm alerted immediately or daily.
CONSStill learning some settings and trying to find the time to dedicate to learn all of the information that is available to me.
WAQAS
Computer & Network Security, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed February 2021
SYSTEM ADMINS AUDIT TOOL
Overall great experience and we are using it on daily basis.
PROSVery easy to implement and support is readily available online. Integrat with Microsoft products and Windows.
CONSLinux machines can't be aduited with it and SAP is also not covered, only Microsoft softwares supoorted.
Faraz
Pharmaceuticals, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed July 2017
Easy to setup and easy to use. Gets the right information easily
Easily able to monitor changes to our AD environment
PROSSimplicity of the product. Pre canned reports. Alerting of various changes such as group memberships etc. API availability.
CONSThere are no simple options available to customize existing reports beyond the fields exposed in the console.
Jeremy
Hospital & Health Care, 201-500 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed January 2019
Easy audit and detection
This software is helping us to be prepared for any audit that may come unexpectedly. I really appreciate the daily emailed reports as well.
PROSThis software makes it possible to track file access and changes.
CONSThere isn't really anything I don;t like about this software.
Gregory
Banking, 51-200 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed January 2019
Fantastic Value
Very Easy to Use More Reports than you could ever want Findings are as detailed or concise as you want them to be
CONSNothing really stands out to me for negatives. I've been happy with Netwrix.