8MAN is now SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)
Access rights don’t have to be hard to audit and report on. Do you find yourself asking…

Do I have visibility into everyone’s access rights?
Access Rights Manager is designed to solve this crucial issue.

How do I ensure a data loss prevention strategy on SharePoint?
Automate account creation with role-specific templates.

Does reporting and auditing access rights take up too much of my time?
Monitor suspicious account activity and deliver custom permissions reports.
Manage and audit user access rights across your IT infrastructure
Key Features
- Identify and resolve high-risk access changes
Monitor and audit access rights.
See what, when, and who made changes to rights with Group Policy and Active Directory management features for enhanced security monitoring, analysis, and auditing.
- Minimize and monitor for insider threats
Get alerts for Windows file server changes and unauthorized access.
Help prevent unauthorized changes to sensitive data with intuitive visualizations to monitor and audit file server permissions.
- Detect changes to improve compliance
Manage and drill into Exchange access rights changes.
ARM, the new name for the 8MAN access rights solution, is built to help improve compliance and the detection of unauthorized changes made to Exchange mailboxes, folders, calendars, and public folders.
- Quickly identify who has access to what
Manage and drill into SharePoint access rights changes.
See who is authorized to access a given SharePoint resource fast with the ability to display SharePoint permissions in a true structure.
- Manage account provisioning
Easily activate, deactivate, modify, create, and delete user access.
Using the standardized role-specific templates in SolarWinds ARM (formerly 8MAN), you can provide access to file servers, Exchange, OneDrive, and set up or manage new user accounts generally in seconds.
- Monitor group memberships
View and analyze Active Directory group memberships.
Stop potential internal security threats more quickly with visibility into monitoring, user management, and reporting for Active Directory group memberships.
- Create audit-ready reports
Help satisfy auditors and demonstrate compliance.
Quickly generate customizable regulatory reports ready to be shared with management and compliance auditors.
- Grant faster and more accurate access
Allow users to request rights directly from data owners.
With its web-based, self-service permissions portal, SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (previously known as 8MAN software) puts access delegation into the hands of data owners instead of administrators.
8MAN is now SolarWinds Access Rights Manager. Different name, same great product.
8MAN is now SolarWinds Access Rights Manager. Different name, same great product.
Key Features
8MAN is now SolarWinds Access Rights Manager. Different name, same great product.
8MAN is now SolarWinds Access Rights Manager. Different name, same great product.
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- 8MAN Acquisition TimelineRead the Press Release
In September 2018, SolarWinds announced a signed agreement to acquire 8MAN with plans to add the 8MAN products to its IT Security Management portfolio in Q4 2018. The 8MAN Access Rights Management solution was re-launched as SolarWinds Access Rights Manager in January 2019.
- Why 8MANRead the Blog
8MAN built and provided a solution designed to help IT operations and security admins improve their security by managing user access, helping to demonstrate compliance, and automating more time-consuming tasks like user provisioning and deprovisioning since 2009. By acquiring 8MAN and re-launching as SolarWinds Access Rights Manager, SolarWinds is able to bring to market a powerful, affordable, and easy-to-use product designed to solve problems the way IT pros want them solved.
- Same 8MAN Reporting FeaturesLearn More
SolarWinds ARM, previously known as 8MAN access rights management, will also feature the ability to create and deliver customizable Active Directory reports designed to show detailed user access monitoring, particularly for users who have access to critical and sensitive data, to help support compliance requirements driven by GDPR, PCI, HIPAA, and other mandates.
- Same 8MAN Permissions ManagementLearn More
SharePoint houses some of an organization’s most valuable assets and verifying the appropriate level of access isn’t easy to do.
8MAN is now SolarWinds Access Rights Management and will continue to help simplify SharePoint permissions management by detailing who has access to what and monitoring when they accessed this data.
- Same 8MAN Access Rights FeaturesLearn More
SolarWinds Access Rights Manager includes the same core access rights features as 8MAN that can monitor suspicious account activity, including lockouts or unauthorized access attempts, and deliver custom Active Directory reports to help satisfy compliance requirements.
- Same 8MAN automationLearn More
ARM (formerly 8MAN) is also built to standardize user credentials with role-specific templates, helping enable IT teams to create secure accounts at scale. Additionally, our self-service permissions portal delegates rights management to data owners for greater convenience.
8MAN is now SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)
8MAN is now SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)
- Monitor and audit access rights.
- Get alerts for Windows file server changes and unauthorized access.
- Manage and drill into Exchange access rights changes.