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The cost of the product is much less than the competition and that's a plus. The alerting is helpful, and the support we receive is efficient and great.
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.

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Sam L.

Financial Services, 201-500 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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Great Tool for Sys Admins

Reviewed 4 years ago

Overall, I am extremely satisfied in this product for the features and function that save time. Having this tool has provided value several times over since installation several years ago, and the proof is in the pudding. It works and provides valuable insight into system health and the WHO, WHAT, WHEN and WHERE.

Pros

Easily identify the 4 W's: Who, what, when, where. Eliminates sifting through several event logs to find the relevant information. Allows easy investigation into changes not authorized or a failed system. Alerts easy to setup for notifications of items you need to know about.

Cons

Occasionally, services fail and don't stop, so monitoring the service doesn't tell you that there is a problem until it is too late. No preventative as I would like.

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Jordan D.

Consumer Goods, 51-200 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend7/10

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Great tool for network visibility

Reviewed 6 years ago

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.

Pros

Easy 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

Cons

The interface is sluggish can cause some network interference if not tuned properly cost

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John S.

Government Administration, 501-1,000 employees

Used weekly for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Satisfied Customer

Reviewed 2 months ago

We purchased Netwrix for a view of files/data that may contain PII, HIPPA or any other vulnerable information. Since then, I've used it more for auditing file/folder access and 'who deleted what when'

Pros

The application was very easy to setup. Support was great in assisting with getting us up and running.

Cons

Pricing model: too many features need to be purchased additionally

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Jim W.

Education Management, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Netwrix is a good tool

Reviewed 2 months ago

We have used it for years and I wish we had the money to get some of the premium options.

Pros

Ease of use, the free use of some tools is very good, they have a wide range of tools available.

Cons

Licensing cost for Auditor, charging for every person in AD is crazy expensive when you have 1000's of accounts.

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Computer Software, 201-500 employees

Used weekly for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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If you are held to a number of regulatory governances, Netwrix Auditor is for you

Reviewed 6 years ago

If ever anyone is requiring a software that will audit their systems, I immediately recommend Netwrix because of the community presence (I have dealt with them primarily on the Spiceworks forums), and their amazing canned reports.

Pros

The amount of data you can collect about security events, group changes, object moves and deletions, system and file access (and much more) is astounding, especially considering the price. If I need to track something new that I wasn't thinking of when I bought this software, I only need to dig a little and there's something there already for me to utilize. The variety of things we can monitor...

Cons

I think that the UI change from the prior major version to the new was the most jarring. I suspect it wouldn't have been as difficult to understand had I started with the newest UI.

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Adrian I.

Banking, 51-200 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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A auditing solution with huge value to the organization!

Reviewed 7 years ago

It makes AD auditing easier for our Information Security Officer, while providing real-time reports for our IT department. The program saves a lot of time that had been spent doing things manually.

Pros

The daily reporting is great at providing a snapshot of changes the environment for Information Security Officer. In our IT department we rely on the real-time alerts daily for user lockouts and other AD related changes to inform us of changes made so we can act accordingly.

Cons

It takes some time to get a handle on the on-demand reporting, but Netwrix provides a huge list of canned reports so you rarely have to create a customized report from scratch.

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Robbie S.

Insurance, 51-200 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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A must have product if you want to audit your internal Active Directory environment

Reviewed 2 months ago

Very good. I recommend this to anyone who needs to use tools to stay compliant with industry regulations.

Pros

Integration with the Microsoft Active Directory and other products like IIS, SQL Server.

Cons

Price and renewals can cause budget issues

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Jesse M.

Financial Services, 51-200 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Chief Information Officer

Reviewed 2 months ago

Used it for going on 5 years on an on-premise VM, works extremely well, low maintenance and the search functionality is much better than other vendors I've used in the past. It would be nice if it had functionality like AI to look for behavioral anomalies.

Pros

Ease of use and it was recommended to me by other Bankers at local conferences.

Cons

Not available in a Linux appliance, would be nice if Netwrix come on a harden Linux appliance instead of running in Microsoft Windows/SQL.

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Max S.

Construction, 201-500 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Great Multipurpose Auditing Tool!

Reviewed 3 years ago

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.

Pros

Let 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...

Cons

The 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.

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Matic K.

Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

Used weekly for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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One of the best security solutions I ever used!

Reviewed a year ago

In security, to have a product which is so easy to use, not too expensive and to get all the information you ever wanted, I always thought that this doesn't exist, until our company didn't started to work with Netwrix.

Pros

The comprehensive auditing capabilities and real-time alerting system were the aspects I liked most about Netwrix Auditor. Additionally, the user-friendly interface and customizable reports were highly appreciated. The software's support for compliance requirements and easy deployment/integration were also significant advantages. Lastly, the knowledgeable customer support provided by Netwrix was another positive aspect that stood out to me.

Cons

Although Netwrix Auditor offers many valuable features, I found the initial setup process to be somewhat challenging. However, once I overcame that hurdle, the overall experience was positive.

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Shayne W.

Financial Services, 51-200 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Cost efficient and gets the same job done

Reviewed 2 months ago
Pros

Easy to setup, use, and administrate. Cheaper than competitors and plenty of tie-in products offered.

Cons

Could be a bit quicker - despite plenty of resources assigned, it can be a bit slow to run searches. I wish there was some capability to deduplicate alerts / get alerts on real-time abnormal activites.

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Lance T.

Government Administration, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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The Right Tool

Reviewed 2 months ago

I have had a positive experience with Netwrix Auditor. It may not have all the extras of other products, but it is a great value for the price and gives most sysadmins exactly what they need.

Pros

The simplicity of using it and how it doesn't require a lot of setup and configuration.

Cons

The query's do take a little knowledge of possible options to get the best, most concise results.

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Lauren G.

Gambling & Casinos, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend7/10

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Netwrix does what we need

Reviewed 2 months ago
Pros

Netwrix Auditor does what we need. The cost of the product is much less than the competition and that's a plus! The alerting is helpful, and the support we receive is efficient and great!

Cons

In my opinion, I feel like the app could be better on how the reports come up and how quickly the results show. As much as the interface is much more user friendly that other competitors, it can be a little confusing when trying to search and pull reports/activity records.

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James M.

Education Management, 501-1,000 employees

Used weekly for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend2/10

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Netwrix auditor does what is needs to but watch out for hidden cost

Reviewed 4 years ago

Started off ok, but when the extra bill came and rude sales guy started in we were more than happy to turn this off. We moved to a fully managed SOC.

Pros

I liked I could get reports on who made changes to everything on my domain. I knew when someone adjusted a group policy, created a user, or made a change in SQL.

Cons

We set this up to monitor employees only. We did not want to monitor students or service accounts because of the extra cost. The count on the user side showed 2000+ and we were not licensed. I opened a support ticket with the company and was told not to worry about it because it would just not monitor any user because of the license. I didn't like the answer, but it was still monitoring so much more. Then a year later I was hit with a huge bill because we had 2000+ people being monitored. We decided to just turn of the service.

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Deborah S.

Media Production, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Netwix Auditor Program is the best overall in features, performance and price despite it's stepback.

Reviewed 2 years ago

Using Netwrix Auditor is good overall, and I can recommend it to be a valuable product that would save you much time in monitoring your server, treats, alerts and reports.

Pros

Netwrix Auditor is one of the best preforming program overall, it is user friendly and easy to understand and it is advance in treat detection and aid in our IT overall protection.It has numerous upscaling features that make it stand out above other similar products.It is inexpensive and will give you value for your money.

Cons

I realized that it is not easy to use, more time would require to understand how to set it up properly.when running, it show error sometimes that is not understandable.

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Richard W.

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Great software that reads your event logs and makes it easy to read, break down and report on.

Reviewed 7 years ago

Know exactly what is happening in your network so you can detect problems and intrusion attempts before they get bad.

Pros

This software takes your computer and server event logs and breaks them down into reports that you can easy view and understand exactly what is going on with your environment. You can also record what anyone does on your servers as a video. All reports can have real time notifications of events you select like multiple failed logins etc. It is also an amazing price for all that you get.

Cons

The only thing i have had is that the new version doesn't support Windows Server 2003-2008 so what i did was spun up 2 VM's for this software and ran an older version on one VM and the newest version on an other so I can have the old version monitor the 2003-2008 servers and the newest version monitor 2008 R2 to 2016.

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Glenn J.

Research, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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A good product for the money

Reviewed 6 years ago

We have been quite happy with Netwrix and staff are starting to rely on it for detailed auditing.

Pros

Netwrix Auditor is a good product that audits all of the items we need to audit. It will audit file servers, database server, Active Directory Servers, SharePoint servers and a whole lot more. We use it for all of these items and the price did not go up because we added more machine types.

Cons

Netwrix can be a bit finicky at times. We have has it stop auditing a server because the configuration on the server was changed. It took a bit of work with support for them to realize that it shouldn't have stopped due to the configuration change and once they figured that out, they fixed the problem. Once we got the auditing to start, it picked up all of the items it missed while it wasn't auditing, so we lost nothing.

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Glenn J.

Government Relations, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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A lot of features at a good price.

Reviewed 6 years ago

It has been used to show my company does take securing sensitive information seriously.

Pros

Netwrix Auditor audits a lot of different products such as SQL Server, Windows Servers, Active Directory and NetApp file servers. It is very consistent in its runs and produces reports and alerts that our US government clients fully accept. It has helped my company receive numerous accreditation for performing auditing properly.

Cons

It can be difficult to configure and sometimes fails during a heavy load. Although it may fail every now and then, it will go back and gather the information it missed in the last run and get backup to date on the audits.

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Matthew G.

Government Relations, 11-50 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Use this software to monitor, alert, and create reports for Government IT Audits

Reviewed 7 years ago

Easier domain management, real time security alerts, it is a wonderful piece of software.

Pros

The fact that Netwrix always includes new and better features all of the time. Great price for the software and once it is in place and working it is very stable and solid. The new 9.0 version really allows for so much more than the old versions.

Cons

Some of the plugins are hard to use. I have a hard time figuring out what is causing errors sometimes when it runs its nightly scans of my systems. But customer support is always very good in helping solve the issues.

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Glenn J.

1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend7/10

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Netwrix Auditor is a fairly easy software package to use. It also converse a lot of system types.

Reviewed 7 years ago

The software covered most of the system that we were required to audit.

Pros

Netwrix Auditor can be setup to audit most all of the systems that a company is running. It also allows, for one price to audit most of the systems that need to be audited. In addition you can audit systems that are not part of Netwrix by using the Integration API.

Cons

The primary con with Netwrix is that the documentation is not complete. It does show how to configure a basic system but then stops there. It should also show how to configure more complex configurations. This then requires you to submit a ticket which might take a bit to get a proper answer.

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Chris A.

Computer & Network Security, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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Very nice and works the second you load it.

Reviewed 7 years ago

Insight into logs without manual log review and without having to create a lot of custom alerts and views.

Pros

The software works well and it doesn't take alot of configuration to be usable. It proactively sends emails with daily recaps. Very simple to setup

Cons

It is very expensive and to get everything, plan to buy multiple modules. The value for the money is there, but it is alot of money to start. Great value / High Price.

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Steve M.

Consumer Goods, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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This software is very intuitive to use and a great value.

Reviewed 7 years ago

Easy to use interface, daily/weekly reporting on important Active Directory events, Real-time alerting, real-time forensics with the intelligent search feature. Ability to scale the product to additional areas as needed (Exchange, SQL, etc.)

Pros

Easy to find the information we need using the search feature. Real-time alerting. Ability to report on any event from the Windows event log.

Cons

Inability to format the reports (choosing data fields or placement of the fields). Inconsistent reporting formats depending on the method selected. Example: running a report within the reporting interface vs. Inactive account report. When running a report and then choosing to subscribe, must reconfigure the subscription to match the report that was already run.

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Lee L.

Airlines/Aviation, 51-200 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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One good solution for security.

Reviewed 4 years ago

Overall my experience has been good. It has helped save our bacon.

Pros

Allows you to setup email notifications to help keep your network and infrastructure secure. Works very well.

Cons

Cost. Is a little pricey for what you get. The overall product works well and is worth the money for what it provides.

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Jesse K.

Utilities, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Easy to implement and quickly gain value from reporting

Reviewed 7 years ago

Various default reports are vary useful... i.e. NIST, PCI, etc. reporting

Pros

Quick and easy deployment. Most features do not require an agent. Video monitoring of server sessions is a really cool features that we actually use.

Cons

Because there is to no support for Cisco products, we are forced to look into alternatives for a fully capable SIEM.

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Kevin K.

Warehousing, 201-500 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Product has consistently worked and is very reliable

Reviewed 7 years ago

Saved a lot of time with end users.

Pros

The product has always worked for us and is extremely easy to manage. The cost was definitely right for the product.

Cons

Only 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.