We performed a comparison between ManageEngine ADAudit Plus and Microsoft Entra ID based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about ManageEngine, Netwrix, One Identity and others in Active Directory Management."The monitoring and reporting are extensive and we get all the information we need while they continue to enhance the capabilities of the product."
"I like the user behavior analytics (UBA). It's a machine learning feature that creates a standard profile for each user when you install it. It creates a baseline for every user, so it can detect when anyone deviates from that standard baseline profile. For example, if a user typically logs in at 9:30 am and logs out at 6 pm, ADAudit will flag it as an anomaly when that same logs in after normal hours and alert the admins."
"The Account Lockout Analyzer and the Inactive Users reports are particularly valuable."
"Real-time monitoring of AD changes and logons is valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the control of the file server."
"It assists in managing the active directory and modifying the reintegrated GPOs."
"ADAudit Plus's best features are that it's very easy to use with a user-friendly interface, and it gives reports on group policy and object changes that we couldn't find in any other product."
"The most valuable feature of ManageEngine ADAudit Plus is its reports."
"What I like about Microsoft Authenticator is that it has good features. I also like that the tool is straightforward to use. Microsoft Authenticator also has a good UI that's very simple to use. I also like that I didn't find any limitations or negative aspects from the features of the tool because Microsoft Authenticator is not an extensive application. It has a two-factor based authentication which validates the user through the password, then it approves authentication."
"Multi-factor authentication (MFA) has improved our customers' security posture. Multi-factor authentication has two layers of authentication, which helps in case you input your credentials into a phishing website and then it has access to your credentials. So if they use your credentials, then you have proof on your phone that was sent to the end user."
"If you want to replicate a website at the frontend in Azure, it's very easy to do it globally."
"Active Directory itself is the best feature it has. It also gives us a single pane of glass for managing user access."
"Don't delay implementing this solution, it's the best thing you can do for your identity protection."
"It is one of those costs where you can't really quantify a return on investment. In the grand scheme of things, if we didn't have it, we would probably have a lot more breaches. It would be a lot harder to detect issues because we would have people using static usernames and passwords for various sites, making us open to a lot more attacks. The amount of security and benefit that we get out of it is not quantifiable but the return of investment from a qualitative point of view is much higher than not having it."
"The most valuable feature is the factor identification. I find that it is natural integration, and it is just a natural step. I do not need to do anything else."
"It has been stable, and we haven't had any issues since we started to use it."
"The initial setup was difficult."
"Its configuration can be better. There were 44 pages of documented notes of what I had to do to get the product to work during the installation process."
"ADAudit could have a more sophisticated interface design. They are using a plain UI, which is decent. However, customers have said that it looks a little flat compared to other vendors. It's not fancy."
"The initial setup was quite complex and required some research beforehand."
"The solution should include more details on file creation and modification. It also needs to have a quick message for troubleshooting problems which needs to be detailed and generic."
"The solution's managing file server activity could be improved."
"Sometimes the developers in technical support take time."
"ADAudit Plus can be very tricky, especially if we need to do some high-availability configuration or distributed environment installation."
"The solution has certain limitations. For example, it has very little governance functionality."
"The workflow management for registering new applications and users could be improved."
"The solution could be improved when it comes to monitoring and logging as these are the most critical areas in case something was to go wrong."
"The price has room for improvement."
"Adding a new account can be tricky."
"The custom role creation function could be improved as it's somewhat tricky to use."
"There is a concept of cross-tenant trust relationships, which I believe Microsoft is actively pursuing. That is something which in the coming days and years to come by will be very key to the success of Azure Active Directory, because many organizations are going into mergers and acquisitions or spinning off new companies. They will still have to access the old tenant information because of multiple legal reasons, compliance reasons, and all those things. So, there should be some level of tenant-level trust functionality, where you can bring people from other tenants to access some part of your tenant application. So, that is an area which is growing. I believe Microsoft is actively pursuing this, and it will be an interesting piece."
"If any service is down, it can affect a whole region. We would need to wait on a ticket and get word from Microsoft to understand the issues. If it takes longer to resolve the issue on Microsoft's side, all we can do is wait for them to fix it."
ManageEngine ADAudit Plus is ranked 4th in Active Directory Management with 10 reviews while Microsoft Entra ID is ranked 1st in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 190 reviews. ManageEngine ADAudit Plus is rated 8.6, while Microsoft Entra ID is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of ManageEngine ADAudit Plus writes "Helpful for real-time monitoring of AD and quick response to threats, but its configuration should be better". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Entra ID writes "Saves us time and money and features Conditional Access policies, SSPR, and MFA". ManageEngine ADAudit Plus is most compared with Quest Change Auditor for Active Directory, ManageEngine ADManager Plus, Netwrix Auditor, SolarWinds Access Rights Manager and Lepide, whereas Microsoft Entra ID is most compared with Microsoft Intune, Google Cloud Identity, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Okta Workforce Identity and Cisco Duo.
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