New Content for Active Directory

Active Directory – A Key to Better IT Security

Active Directory (AD) often plays a central role in organizations’ security and compliance efforts, as it manages identities and access. But keeping AD organized and up to date can be both time-consuming and challenging. Here are some of the most common challenges we’ve noted:

• Security: AD is a prime target for cyberattacks. Monitoring AD allows you to quickly detect and act on suspicious activity such as unauthorized login attempts, new accounts, or changed permissions.
• Efficiency and reliability: A well-managed AD ensures users have the right access to the right resources, reducing support tickets and login issues.
• Compliance: Regulations like GDPR, HIPAA, and SOX require strict control over access to sensitive information.
• Cost control: An updated AD helps optimize license usage, identify unused resources, and streamline processes such as onboarding and offboarding.

That means many settings and configurations need continuous maintenance and alignment with company policies.

Full Visibility Into Your Active Directory

When researching best practices for structuring a well-managed AD, we identified concrete tips we’ve packaged into a new report set in vScope. With this new AD content, we take the next step in helping IT teams simplify and streamline Active Directory management.

Tables and dashboards are designed to reduce manual work and give you a clear overview of all AD data – directly in vScope.

Why Is This Valuable?

With complete and accessible AD information in vScope, you gain new opportunities for both efficient operations and strategic planning. No more manual data collection, digging, and reporting just to understand your account management.

Instead, you can quickly favorite and adapt the reports that matter most to you – or share them with others who need the insights.

Key benefits include:

• Enhanced security: Proactively detect and remediate vulnerabilities. Inactive accounts or devices may act as backdoors, while locked accounts can signal ongoing attacks.
• Improved data quality and structure: Ensure your AD data is accurate and complete, making administration, troubleshooting, and policy enforcement much easier.
• More efficient collaboration: Provide a shared, transparent view of accounts and devices to speed up permission management, login troubleshooting, and account lifecycle control.
• Stronger compliance: Demonstrate that inactive accounts are removed, passwords updated, and access controlled – the foundation of regulatory compliance. With vScope’s history tracking, you can follow how configurations have changed over time, from day one.

What’s Included in the Report Package?

The new AD content makes it easier than ever to stay in control of your Active Directory environment. New tables include:

• Active Directory Users Last Login – get an instant view of account activity.
• Active Directory Users with Locked Out Account – simplify troubleshooting by quickly finding accounts that may need to be unlocked or removed. Works great as an alert in vScope Tracker.
• All Active Directory Devices – gain better visibility into registered devices in your AD.
• Active Directory Users Created in Last 7 Days – stay on top of newly created accounts in your environment.

…and much more!

Get Started With Smarter Active Directory Management in vScope

With these updates, vScope takes another step toward offering a complete and user-friendly platform to simplify account management, security, and compliance.

If your company or organization already uses vScope and subscribes to the Directory module, this content is available right on your start screen.

Log in to vScope and explore the new features – or book a demo and we’ll walk you through how it works.