NTFS Permissions Management Toolkit

Protect sensitive data while saving time on NTFS permissions management within your Windows environment.

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Are your NTFS permissions a ticking time-bomb?

Years of ad-hoc access requests, nested groups and inherited rights leave file servers wide open. Dormant accounts, orphaned SIDs and “Everyone : Full Control” shares are an open invitation to ransomware and insider abuse. The Netwrix NTFS Permissions Management Toolkit instantly reveals who can touch which files, highlights dangerous over-privilege and helps you lock it down — before it costs you. The 2024 IBM Cost of a Data Breach report puts the average incident at $4.88 million — don’t pay it for sloppy

Identify Who Has Access to What

Complete visibility into file permissions: Understand precisely which users have access to specific files and folders across your servers. Easily spot overexposed data, ensuring sensitive information is accessible only to the right individuals.

Remove Excessive Permissions (Enforce Least Privilege)

Revoke unnecessary access rights: Identify users with excess permissions and remove those privileges. Enforce a least-privilege model, ensuring users have only the minimum access required for their roles.

Monitor and Audit Permission Changes

Track every permission change: Maintain a comprehensive audit trail of modifications to file and folder permissions. Record what changed (added, removed, or modified), who made each change, and when it occurred, to facilitate the investigation of any improper alterations.
Detect unauthorized changes quickly: Gain real-time insights into permission changes that could jeopardize data security. Promptly identify and address unauthorized or suspicious permission modifications before they lead to security or compliance issues.

Monitor File Access Activity

Audit access to sensitive files: Monitor who is accessing, modifying, or deleting files on your servers. Track both successful and failed access attempts to important files to detect potential unauthorized access or insider misuse.
Spot unusual file activity: Identify suspicious patterns, such as mass file modifications or repeated access failures, which could indicate ransomware attacks or malicious behavior. Receive alerts on anomalous file access events for timely investigation and response.

Automate Access Reviews

Delegate reviews to data owners: Streamline processes by empowering business owners to regularly review and confirm resource access. Data owners can approve current permissions or request changes, ensuring those closest to the data validate that access rights are appropriate.
Schedule regular attestation: Initiate periodic access certification campaigns to prevent outdated or unnecessary permissions from lingering. Automated reminders and workflows prompt reviewers to certify or revoke user access, mitigating permission creep and enforcing least privilege without overwhelming IT.

Simplify Compliance Reporting

Easily demonstrate least privilege: Provide auditors with clear evidence of tightly controlled file permissions. Generate reports illustrating exactly who has access to what, and document regular reviews and adjustments of access rights to prove the presence of proper controls.
Out-of-the-box audit reports: Simplify compliance audits with pre-built reports mapped to common regulations (GDPR, PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOX, etc.). Swiftly deliver the necessary documentation on file permissions and recent changes. All permission events and review actions are recorded, offering a complete audit trail to satisfy IT auditors.

On-demand permissions reports: Quickly generate reports detailing who possesses what level of access to critical files. Validate that access rights align with each user's roles and compliance requirements at any given time.

Strip away excessive privileges: Discover instances where users possess unjustified high-level rights, such as Full Control. Quickly remove or reduce these elevated permissions to minimize security risks and enhance access control.

Eliminate open share access: Detect folders where broad groups, such as “Everyone,” have access and swiftly restrict it. Ensure that only authorized personnel can read or modify confidential files by removing overly permissive group access.

More than 13,000 organizations in over 100 countries

choose Netwrix for IT management excellence

What our

customers say

Controlling access to sensitive data is one of our priorities, since we must comply with numerous industry standards. Netwrix Auditor helps us to ensure that there is no room for unauthorized actions that could potentially compromise sensitive data and damage our customers.

Mark Patten, Director of Corporate Engineering, FXCM Inc.

5/5

Ready to see every permission, fix every gap and sleep better tonight?

NTFS Permissions Management Toolkit

Protect sensitive data while saving time on NTFS permissions management within your Windows environment.

4.8

4.7

Are your NTFS permissions a ticking time-bomb?

Years of ad-hoc access requests, nested groups and inherited rights leave file servers wide open. Dormant accounts, orphaned SIDs and “Everyone : Full Control” shares are an open invitation to ransomware and insider abuse. The Netwrix NTFS Permissions Management Toolkit instantly reveals who can touch which files, highlights dangerous over-privilege and helps you lock it down — before it costs you. The 2024 IBM Cost of a Data Breach report puts the average incident at $4.88 million — don’t pay it for sloppy

Identify Who Has Access to What

Complete visibility into file permissions: Understand precisely which users have access to specific files and folders across your servers. Easily spot overexposed data, ensuring sensitive information is accessible only to the right individuals.

Remove Excessive Permissions (Enforce Least Privilege)

Revoke unnecessary access rights: Identify users with excess permissions and remove those privileges. Enforce a least-privilege model, ensuring users have only the minimum access required for their roles.

Monitor and Audit Permission Changes

Track every permission change: Maintain a comprehensive audit trail of modifications to file and folder permissions. Record what changed (added, removed, or modified), who made each change, and when it occurred, to facilitate the investigation of any improper alterations.
Detect unauthorized changes quickly: Gain real-time insights into permission changes that could jeopardize data security. Promptly identify and address unauthorized or suspicious permission modifications before they lead to security or compliance issues.

Monitor File Access Activity

Audit access to sensitive files: Monitor who is accessing, modifying, or deleting files on your servers. Track both successful and failed access attempts to important files to detect potential unauthorized access or insider misuse.
Spot unusual file activity: Identify suspicious patterns, such as mass file modifications or repeated access failures, which could indicate ransomware attacks or malicious behavior. Receive alerts on anomalous file access events for timely investigation and response.

Automate Access Reviews

Delegate reviews to data owners: Streamline processes by empowering business owners to regularly review and confirm resource access. Data owners can approve current permissions or request changes, ensuring those closest to the data validate that access rights are appropriate.
Schedule regular attestation: Initiate periodic access certification campaigns to prevent outdated or unnecessary permissions from lingering. Automated reminders and workflows prompt reviewers to certify or revoke user access, mitigating permission creep and enforcing least privilege without overwhelming IT.

Simplify Compliance Reporting

Easily demonstrate least privilege: Provide auditors with clear evidence of tightly controlled file permissions. Generate reports illustrating exactly who has access to what, and document regular reviews and adjustments of access rights to prove the presence of proper controls.
Out-of-the-box audit reports: Simplify compliance audits with pre-built reports mapped to common regulations (GDPR, PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOX, etc.). Swiftly deliver the necessary documentation on file permissions and recent changes. All permission events and review actions are recorded, offering a complete audit trail to satisfy IT auditors.

On-demand permissions reports: Quickly generate reports detailing who possesses what level of access to critical files. Validate that access rights align with each user's roles and compliance requirements at any given time.

Strip away excessive privileges: Discover instances where users possess unjustified high-level rights, such as Full Control. Quickly remove or reduce these elevated permissions to minimize security risks and enhance access control.

Eliminate open share access: Detect folders where broad groups, such as “Everyone,” have access and swiftly restrict it. Ensure that only authorized personnel can read or modify confidential files by removing overly permissive group access.

More than 13,000 organizations in over 100 countries choose Netwrix for IT management excellence

What our

customers say

Controlling access to sensitive data is one of our priorities, since we must comply with numerous industry standards. Netwrix Auditor helps us to ensure that there is no room for unauthorized actions that could potentially compromise sensitive data and damage our customers.

Mark Patten, Director of Corporate Engineering, FXCM Inc.

5/5

Ready to see every permission, fix every gap and sleep better tonight?