Monday, 6 November 2006
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NetIQ, a provider of integrated systems and security management, has unveiled the NetIQ Directory and Resource Administrator (DRA) 8.0. This latest version is said to provide protection for Active Directory (AD) and streamlines administration through secure delegation of privileges, task automation, and simplified access control.
According to Gartner, many enterprises have applications and services running under the domain administrator account and have support staff and help desk staff with access to the domain administrator account. This is clearly not a best practice. Gartner further indicates that there are specific areas where third-party tools provide additional value:
- Security reporting and auditing
- Managing multiple-domain or multiple-forest implementations
- Managing and deploying group policies
- Monitoring the health of Active Directory
- Delegating administration privileges in a non-hierarchical manner
As the primary data store for confidential information such as Windows user accounts, exchange e-mail accounts, and other applications, AD has become part of the mission-critical IT infrastructure. Excessive administrator privileges in AD exposes the organisation to unnecessary risks and results in compliance exceptions, claims NetIQ.
According to the company, DRA solves this problem by building on core capabilities such as automated provisioning and secure delegation, to allow IT administrators to delegate permissions without creating unnecessary privileged accounts. By limiting privileged accounts, DRA 8.0 prevents users, such as application owners, from making inadvertent or unauthorised changes to AD. Lastly, DRA 8.0 delivers granular audit controls to document approved AD changes, track user access and support compliance reporting.
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