No matter how much a company might trust its employees, there are certain places on the corporate network that are going to be off-limits to all but a select few. Likewise, there are going to be network resources, like files and applications, to which access will be similarly restricted. In the physical world, doors can be locked, drawers and file cabinets secured, and people sworn to secrecy. But in the digital world, more sophisticated and complex safeguards are required.
Blackbird Active Directory Software is a Real-time change tracking and security compliance for your Active Directories and Group Policies.
That’s why corporate IT managers need to know who has access to what resources at all times. The most important factor that renders this task complex and difficult is the highly distributed nature of Windows file permissions. There’s no central repository for file permissions native to Windows. In fact, those permissions reside with the individual data files, making something as basic as a permissions inventory all but impossible.
But that’s not the limit to the problems of using native tools to track resource permissions. Even if you manage to build file auditing and permissions capability with native tools, there is no centralized way to manage and control those capabilities. And, suppose you manage to collect some file permission information with native tools. How can you use it? How do you know if it’s really meaningful? There aren’t any enterprise-level reporting options using native tools, so it’s difficult to see what’s going on.
Fortunately, there’s a solution to this thorny problem. Actually, there’s a set of solutions, all within the Blackbird Management Suite.
The Blackbird Management Suite is a tightly integrated set of modules that helps IT managers and administrators perform real-time active directory auditing and continuous recovery with one-click rollback – ACTIVE DIRECTORY BACKUP, automated reporting, log consolidation and file system auditing—all from a single easy-to-use console.
There are two Blackbird Management Suite modules that deal with resource security and the problem of finding out who has access to a resource at any given time.
Blackbird Auditor for File System provides administrators with tighter security and control over resources across the enterprise. It provides real-time tracking, interactive analysis, and customized reporting on all changes to all designated shares, files and folders.
Blackbird Privilege Explorer establishes a central database of all system resources across the enterprise, providing administrators with a clear view of who has access to what. Not only does Privilege Explorer tell you the “who” and “what,” it can answer the critical question of “when,” displaying the history of access to any resource—across time, or for a specific date or range of dates.
Together, these two modules give you the power to see everything that happens with critical file system resources from a single console. Data security and compliance don’t need to be problematical. And, with Blackbird’s Auditor for File System and Privilege Explorer, they’ll never be problems again.
