Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Generating Security Audit Reports

Regular security audits are an integral component of proactive security management, and thus play an important role in organizational security. They should be performed on a periodic basis and cover all major aspects and security components involved in security maintenance.

In this blog, we will take a look at some important security audit reports that are based on Active Directory. These reports typically cover the usual categories of user account management, security group management, computer management and password related security policy management.

These reports not only provide a helpful insight into the security of a Windows network but also provide a way to generate and arhive periodic snapshots of the state of security resources.