SharePoint Online Audit Log Tool
Easy-to-use SharePoint audit tool safeguards user access, helps demonstrate compliance, and supports incident response
Compliance reporting designed for speed and simplicity
Even in small organizations, SharePoint permissions management can quickly become complex. This level of complexity can slow down SharePoint security audits. SolarWinds® Access Right Manager (ARM) is built to simplify compliance by helping you provide auditors validation you’re adhering to security policy by safely delegating access privilege. Unlike other SharePoint audit tools, ARM is built to simultaneously help reduce IT workload and risks. Plus, ARM fully automates report scheduling and delivery—directly to your auditor and other key stakeholders.
Help safeguard user access to SharePoint files
Although Microsoft SharePoint can house some of an organization’s most valuable resources, analyzing SharePoint audit logs can be slow and difficult. Our simple-to-use SharePoint audit tool, SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM), is designed to help simplify your audit program by reporting who has access to what SharePoint data—and provides a full audit trail of when they accessed it. With rich SharePoint reporting, ARM can help make the next risk assessment easier and faster. If ARM discovers an account with insecure configurations, the tool will instantly alert you to automatically deprovision the user’s account.
Respond to SharePoint data risks
Monitoring user access to SharePoint files and folders is essential for security and compliance. Yet responding to these risks at scale requires deep analytics as well as efficient automation. SolarWinds Access Rights Manager, a lightweight SharePoint audit tool, can analyze Active Directory management of user permissions and automate user provisioning and deprovisioning for rapid responses to data breach risks. Whether you detect suspicious user activity in Microsoft Exchange or in SharePoint, ARM can capture the full audit trail to help support audits and investigations.
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Do you find yourself asking…
SharePoint audit logs are records of events, operations, and changes over time in SharePoint, which is a widely used content management and collaboration tool. SharePoint online audit logs can tell you who accessed which elements of SharePoint, when they accessed those elements, and what actions they performed during their time in the platform. This can include operations such as:
- Opened, viewed, or downloaded documents and items
- Items moved and copied to another location in the site collection
- Edits and modifications made to accounts, permissions, and audit settings
- Deleted or restored items and audit log events
- Checked out and in items
- Audit log search queries
By sorting, filtering, and analyzing the data present in a SharePoint online audit log, you can understand relevant and important events.
SharePoint also enables you to create native audit log reports. However, there are limitations to these reports—for instance, they can only list users assigned permissions to site collection and won’t list user effective permissions. Built-in audit log reports also don’t offer easy-to-read details on critical permission changes. This can make it very difficult and time-consuming to determine whether a specific user’s permissions are appropriate.
SharePoint audit logs are records of events, operations, and changes over time in SharePoint, which is a widely used content management and collaboration tool. SharePoint online audit logs can tell you who accessed which elements of SharePoint, when they accessed those elements, and what actions they performed during their time in the platform. This can include operations such as:
- Opened, viewed, or downloaded documents and items
- Items moved and copied to another location in the site collection
- Edits and modifications made to accounts, permissions, and audit settings
- Deleted or restored items and audit log events
- Checked out and in items
- Audit log search queries
By sorting, filtering, and analyzing the data present in a SharePoint online audit log, you can understand relevant and important events.
SharePoint also enables you to create native audit log reports. However, there are limitations to these reports—for instance, they can only list users assigned permissions to site collection and won’t list user effective permissions. Built-in audit log reports also don’t offer easy-to-read details on critical permission changes. This can make it very difficult and time-consuming to determine whether a specific user’s permissions are appropriate.
Powerful, Easy-to-Use SharePoint Online Audit Tool
Access Rights Manager
- Monitor and audit Active Directory, Exchange, SharePoint, and file server permissions
- Quickly manage and provision user access
- Generate custom management and audit reports
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