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Quest Software announces
innovations to improve
organisations’ cyber-resilience
Quest Software, a global systems
management, data protection
and security software provider,
has announced new capabilities available
within On Demand Audit to support the
industry-wide shift to the cloud and ensure
Microsoft environments remain secure in the
face of growing malware and cyberthreats.
Available within the Quest Microsoft
Platform Management (MPM) business,
On Demand Audit is an Azure-hosted SaaS
offering that provides tracking and alerting
on all configuration, user and administrator
changes made across Microsoft
hybrid environments.
To further help customers tighten their
security posture, streamline auditing
processes and adhere to compliance
requirements, On Demand Audit now
features new support for Teams and delivers
the necessary auditing and alerting on all
critical events to minimise vulnerabilities
across the business collaboration tool.
With the recent organisational shift to
a remote global workforce, Microsoft
Teams has fast become a vital business
collaboration tool of choice, with more than
75 million, and growing, users leveraging
the collaboration platform since the start
of the global pandemic. Teams is not only
useful for overall business productivity,
it has also transformed how employees
communicate, share information and
maintain relationships when scattered
across the globe.
With an increase in business-critical
information being shared across productivity
platforms such as Teams and hackers looking
to exploit today’s work-from-home era, it
has increased the surface area that IT teams
must manage and secure across
the organisation.
To better defend against emerging
cybersecurity threats looking to leverage
Teams as the entry point, On Demand Audit
with Teams support gives IT teams the
necessary auditing and alerting for events
such as configuration and setting changes,
guest user activity and when new Teams or
channels are created.
Mitigate security risks across
hybrid environments
Although global organisations are
accelerating the transition to the cloud,
the reality today is that many businesses
manage a hybrid platform environment,
keeping some workloads on-premises, with
others in the cloud. Complexities can be
associated with managing a hybrid cloud
infrastructure, particularly when it comes to
ensuring a strong security posture.
Combined with the explosive growth of
data flowing across the organisation and
more workloads moving to the cloud, it’s a
tall order for IT teams to ensure accurate
auditing and compliance requirements are
met to support this hybrid business model.
To tighten an organisation’s security posture
and mitigate risks to workloads on-premises
and in the cloud, Quest On Demand Audit
now features enhanced visibility and insight
across AD, Azure AD and Microsoft 365, as
well as on-premises authentications with the
new integration of Change Auditor for Logon
Activity. This capability provides a single
pane of glass view that captures, alerts
and reports on all AD logon/logoff and Azure
AD sign in activity.
With real time email alerts, IT admins have
complete, accurate visibility into usage
patterns and can respond to suspicious
logins from anywhere, on any device.
“Our approach with On Demand Audit is
unique as it’s hybrid-enabled to support
seamless integration with our on-premises
Change Auditor solution, so customers
benefit with that extra level of security either
on-premises or in the cloud,” said Brad Kirby,
Senior Director, Product Management, Quest
Microsoft Platform Management Business. •
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