1.1 What is Change Guardian?

Change Guardian provides security intelligence to rapidly identify and respond to unauthorized activities of privileged users that indicate a security breach or compliance gaps. Change Guardian helps security teams to detect and respond to potential threats in real-time. Change Guardian achieves this by using intelligent alerting of authorized and unauthorized access, and helps detect changes to critical files, systems, and applications.

To manage sophisticated threats and complex computing environment, organizations must take a layered and integrated approach to defend their critical systems and sensitive data.

Change Guardian provides the following protection measures:

  • Privileged-user monitoring: Audits and monitors the activities of privileged users to reduce the risk of insider attacks.

  • Real-time change monitoring: Identifies and reports changes to critical files, platforms and systems to help prevent security breaches and ensure policy compliance.

  • Real-time change alerting: Provides immediate visibility to unauthorized changes that could lead to a security breach, and enables a quick response to threats.

  • Compliance and best practices attainment: Helps satisfy compliance mandates by demonstrating the ability to monitor access to critical files and data.

Change Guardian helps you reduce the time and complexity required to analyze different platform logs in the following ways:

  • Centrally recording and auditing changes

  • Creating easy-to-use monitoring policies

  • Automating daily change auditing and reporting

Change Guardian also integrates with your existing security information and event management (SIEM) solution, such as Sentinel. Change Guardian extends the ability of SIEM solutions to detect and respond to security incidents by providing information about who did what, when, where, and how, along with providing before and after values. With this comprehensive security intelligence, you can mitigate the impact of an attack before severe damage or compliance gaps can occur.

Change Guardian monitors the following endpoints or assets: Windows Active Directory, Group Policy, Windows, Microsoft Azure Active Directory, AWS (Identity), Office 365, Dell EMC, Microsoft Exchange, NetApp, UNIX, and Linux.