Active Directory Delegation

Active Directory (AD) delegation is a security and compliance strategy that involves delegating various levels of AD permissions to individual users. For example, data owners can be empowered to delegate access rights to the resources they own. By allowing key players within your organization to dictate which users have access to which Active Directory folders, files, and data, you’re helping ensure the principle of least privilege in your organization.

Not every user needs administrator level access to folders. AD delegation works by enabling specific user controls, such as the ability to give new team members access to predetermined files and folders as well as remove or limit access. Companies that practice the principle of least privilege through the use of AD delegation help ensure that users are easily granted the minimum level of access they need to perform their day-to-day responsibilities.

IT professionals do not have to be the only ones in charge of group management. AD delegation can also help reduce IT workloads and enhance productivity by delegating permissions management back to data owners.

To leverage AD delegation effectively, you must first define data categories across your organization, outlining specific types of company data and roles based on how often a user needs access to information and the type of data that they need or can provide access to. Once these categories and roles have been determined, you can begin to delegate Active Directory permissions and levels of control, determining which users (like data owners) have the power to grant others access to files and folders.

Another best practice is centralizing your AD delegation efforts through the use of an AD delegation tool. With the ability to automate deprovisioning user access in response to insider threats, a tool can help you respond to incidents faster and help prevent the spread of malware, limit the scope of damage if an attack occurs, and help prevent losses of sensitive information.

Relying on manual Active Directory permissions management can slow IT operations and introduce errors, potentially exposing organizations to risk. By automating access management processes like creating, modifying, deleting, or disabling accounts, AD delegation tools are built to help IT technicians drive efficiency and reduce risk.

With Active Directory delegation tools, you can better monitor and control where and how information is exchanged to ensure users are granted only the minimum level of access they need to perform their day-to-day responsibilities.

Active Directory delegation tools can empower you to quickly set up and manage new user accounts via standardized role-specific templates that provide access to specified file servers and Microsoft Exchange. This helps take the guesswork out of user provisioning and management for Active Directory, while helping ensure you’re following security best practices by enforcing the principle of least privilege.

Access Rights Manager is designed to perform AD delegation with integrated templates that can be leveraged to delegate access rights privileges and enforce the principle of least privilege. 

Beyond these templates, Access Rights Manager empowers IT technicians to define data categories across their organizations, assign these categories functional owners, and delegate aspects of permissions management to data owners. This delegation is achieved through a web-based, self-service permissions portal that puts data access rights directly into the hands of data owners rather than administrators.

With Access Rights Manager, users who own content can be empowered to manage who has access. This can save your IT department from having to own this process, allowing them to focus on other critical tasks like mitigating performance problems.

SolarWinds ARM is also built to produce custom reports that can help demonstrate compliance by displaying who has access to what data, and when they accessed it. No more hunting for compliance information in a mess of data and user settings. ARM  can automatically transmit compliance reports directly to your auditor based on a schedule of your choosing, so you don’t have to worry about missing important deadlines.

• Active Directory Reporting Tool
• Active Directory Auditing Tool
• Active Directory Management Tool
• Active Directory Groups Management
• Active Directory Permissions Reporting
• Active Directory Folder Permissions
• OneDrive Permissions Monitoring
• SharePoint Permissions Management
• SharePoint Audit Tool
• Simplify NTFS Permissions Management
• Exchange Auditing Software
• Exchange Management Tool
• File Server Auditing