# Netwrix Access Analyzer Reviews **Vendor:** Netwrix **Category:** [Sensitive Data Discovery Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/sensitive-data-discovery) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 26 ## About Netwrix Access Analyzer Netwrix Enterprise Auditor helps organizations collect and analyze the data they need to answer their most difficult questions in the management and security of their critical IT infrastructure, data, and applications. Unlike point-products designed to address only a single need, Netwrix Enterprise Auditor is a true framework. With preconfigured solutions to address your most common requirements, as well as an extensive toolset for you to create solutions of your own, Netwrix Enterprise Auditor remains relevant even when your requirements change. Strict audit regulations like PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOX, and others, require organizations to know who has access to certain types of data, what they’re doing with it, and how users were granted that access. Couple that with the threat of insider theft and data loss, and risky conditions like Open Access in the File System and SharePoint, and today’s IT administrators need help! KEY FEATURES & BENEFITS - Preconfigured Solution Sets – Netwrix Enterprise Auditor contains out-of-the-box, ready to run Solution Sets aligning to Data Access Governance for Unstructured and Structured Data, Active Directory Management and Security, OS-level Auditing and Governance, and more. - Process Automation – Netwrix Enterprise Auditor seamlessly ties together disparate processes, creating fully automated solutions that save time, avoid unnecessary costs, and alleviate burden on IT. - Governance – Not all the data you need can be obtained from a system or application. Netwrix Enterprise Auditor provides both simple and sophisticated methods of retrieving and incorporating end-user feedback into the data analysis and decision-making process, including Entitlement Reviews, Self-Service Access Requests, and more. - Technology Integration – Netwrix Enterprise Auditor can push and pull data to and from dozens of technologies (including home-grown systems) to enhance the value of existing and future technology investments. - Consolidated Reporting – Netwrix Enterprise Auditor can report on any available dataset, enabling organizations to automate a multitude of reporting tasks, as well as view all of their reports in a single pane of glass. ## Netwrix Access Analyzer Reviews ### 1. Stealthbits - No Worries **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tom M. | System Administrator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2019 **What do you like best about Netwrix Access Analyzer?** Stealthbits allows me to sleep like a baby knowing my data is safe. It proactively eliminates threats that I didnt even know existed before I installed the product **What do you dislike about Netwrix Access Analyzer?** A sql server license is required, which can be a bit pricey but if your small enough company you can use SQL Express 2012 **Recommendations to others considering Netwrix Access Analyzer:** Buy it now, before its too late. 1 ransomware incident and you will wish you had Stealthbits protection! **What problems is Netwrix Access Analyzer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Security issues are resolved. I know when a bad character has acceded our network and it proactively eliminates those threats and informs me so I can remediate the problem ### 2. Security and integrity for your data and information **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kent Y. | Information Technology Staff, Internet, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 06, 2019 **What do you like best about Netwrix Access Analyzer?** You can check the current permissions that users have and at the same time you can modify them and see them before changing them as those changes would affect those users, which allows you to have a control over how they affect the modifications that are made. It is also quite easy to use and the reports generate reports that allow you to check all the relevant information found in the database. The capacity and efficiency in the elimination of threats and the reports on any type of problem that may exist help to make the data more secure. **What do you dislike about Netwrix Access Analyzer?** When you perform several analyzes it can happen that too much memory and processor are used in the server, which can affect the correct operation, since it consumes many resources at times. These analyzes can also sometimes take longer than desired to be done, more than a day sometimes takes. But it is true that although they take a long time you really get a wide information and also make sure you are sure if there is any threat. But even if they are very complete analyzes, if the time were reduced, it would be better. **Recommendations to others considering Netwrix Access Analyzer:** The integrity and security of the data and also define the permissions and roles of each of your employees is a good way to increase the security of information. This tool helps make that easier. **What problems is Netwrix Access Analyzer solving and how is that benefiting you?** With StealthAUDIT Management Platform we can have more control in the company about the privileges that each group of users have. It is important to manage the permissions and define access to folders, files and data, as this increases security and prevents the loss of information. This software has also managed to eliminate threats and maintain the integrity of our data. Whenever there has been any threat has warned us and has been quarantined for further review, which has allowed us to increase our peace of mind. ### 3. I have StelahtAudit to monitor File services and Active Direcotry **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Darin Y. | Senior Systems Administrator II, Education Management, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2019 **What do you like best about Netwrix Access Analyzer?** I like the best the file monitoring agents and the reports based on access permissions changes. AIC is very good as idea. **What do you dislike about Netwrix Access Analyzer?** For large dispersed environments I've experience very long time for some jobs. The analytics jobs are using too much of the processor and memory on the SQL server. Some analytics jobs takes more than 24 hours to execute. The data is as current as a scheduled jobs. **What problems is Netwrix Access Analyzer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Rouge access to files and folders. Accidental deletion of file and folders. ### 4. ShatealAudit/AIC **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 29, 2019 **What do you like best about Netwrix Access Analyzer?** StealthAudit (SMP) Gives you the ability to produce reports quickly to review who has access, review unstructured data and the ability to put a plan together to remediate. The AIC portal allows you to put control/responsibility back to the business or data custodian in a security controlled manner with simple workflows. **What do you dislike about Netwrix Access Analyzer?** We have been very satisfied with the product. My only constructive feedback would be response times with support, however the team have always been very helpful and make extra effort to address any concerns. **Recommendations to others considering Netwrix Access Analyzer:** SMP does what it states. Help find, review and remediate unstructured data in the platform of interest. The tool can actually do a lot more to help monitor, maintain and manage infrastructure including automations. **What problems is Netwrix Access Analyzer solving and how is that benefiting you?** The ability to produce standard Share/Folder Audit reports or AD Group reports quickly within minutes now. The ability to produce report to assess data and put together a plan to remediate unstructured data, access, etc. The ability to offer self-service for colleagues to manage AD Groups and perform formal Entitlement review or revalidations of Group memberships by the tens of thousands. ### 5. Powerfull tool for AD maintenance and sensitive information scan **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 01, 2019 **What do you like best about Netwrix Access Analyzer?** I appreciate the large number of reports and the depth of the analysis made possible by the tool, plus the add-on modules that enable to take action on report findings to ensure our AD is a close to our standards as possibleé **What do you dislike about Netwrix Access Analyzer?** The tool is a little too complex to be able to install and manage it by ourselves at the start, but the customer service from Stealthbits was really helpful and made sure our deployment was optimal. **Recommendations to others considering Netwrix Access Analyzer:** Have the professional services from Stealthbits install the platform **What problems is Netwrix Access Analyzer solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use the tool to ensure compliance of all active directory with our policies and it enables us to save a lot of time by automating scans and changes. ### 6. StealthAUDIT helps mature my Information Security Program **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 27, 2019 **What do you like best about Netwrix Access Analyzer?** StealthAUDIT allows visibility and automation of access rights and privileges across Active Directory and other file repositories. Features that enable my admins tell the age and complexity of user passwords and the ability to automatically send emails notifications to users or even enforce password change is extremely useful. Perhaps the best feature is the ability to simulate changes, see the impact and understand any complexity and risks before having to commit those changes in a production environment. This is particularly useful as we don't always have a test environment for AD and other core systems. **What do you dislike about Netwrix Access Analyzer?** The user interface is very effective but can be improved upon. It is logical and works great once you are used to it. **Recommendations to others considering Netwrix Access Analyzer:** It is a great product and the professional service team is really helpful, but you need to build out your statement of work clearly to show what features you want to implement and set out clear timelines, etc. **What problems is Netwrix Access Analyzer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automation and auditing of user privileges. Access control to files / folder structure, Anomaly detection in user behavior and access profiles. Using StealtAUDIT and the other add on modules saves us significant time and effort. it also gives a level of visibility and granularity that is not native to AD without trawling through a ton of logs. ### 7. Great Product **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Packaging and Containers | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 28, 2019 **What do you like best about Netwrix Access Analyzer?** This product helps us discover and identify data on our file servers spread across different domains. SA helped to generate reports during our audits which are easily understandable. **What do you dislike about Netwrix Access Analyzer?** Log Size is a concern but it is understandable due to the fact that SA stores much information. **What problems is Netwrix Access Analyzer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Audit Reporting AD Reporting Monitoring File Systems ### 8. StealthAudit - By Stealthbits **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Legal Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 05, 2019 **What do you like best about Netwrix Access Analyzer?** The software tracks all security actions on the domain controllers and displays them in an easy to use interface. The software also takes proactive actions to revoke permissions on domain accounts with suspicious activity. **What do you dislike about Netwrix Access Analyzer?** Ransomware extensions require frequent updating. **Recommendations to others considering Netwrix Access Analyzer:** If you are concerned about security of compliance, do yourself a favor and purchase this product ASAP. **What problems is Netwrix Access Analyzer solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were hit by a ransomware attack in 2017, we had terabytes of data encrypted which took a full day to restore. This software would have disabled the compromised account after just 300 modified files and saved us a full day of downtime. ### 9. Good product for overall reporting, audits and the support team is very helpful; **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Netwrix Access Analyzer?** Support and follow up is key to this project, Verisk uses StealthBits project team to assist in the design and build out of this tool. The support staff is eager to work through issues and establish standards as part of the build process. Overall the product meets our needs with the various functions we purchased. **What do you dislike about Netwrix Access Analyzer?** Documentation is not as good as with other vendors docs. I found that the various links in the docs move you around and creates confusion when trying to drill down. I would also like to see better training and if possible formal training . **Recommendations to others considering Netwrix Access Analyzer:** No recommendations at this time **What problems is Netwrix Access Analyzer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Audit and monitoring of unstructured sensitive data and permissions in the environments ### 10. StealthAUDIT Review for healthcare **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bob B. | Senior Systems Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Netwrix Access Analyzer?** one of the things we like best about StealthAUDIT is ease of use. It is very easy to install and get up and running creating reports and running jobs in just a few minutes. **What do you dislike about Netwrix Access Analyzer?** Nothing right now! The product is functioning as designed and as we expect. **Recommendations to others considering Netwrix Access Analyzer:** Our biggest recomendation woulod be to ensure the proper and necessary resources are available to the hardware or VM that StealthAUDIT runs on. **What problems is Netwrix Access Analyzer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Auditing sensitive groups (Domain Admins) has been a huge issue for us, and have solved it with StealthAUDIT. ## Netwrix Access Analyzer Discussions - [Does STEALTHbits help companies with compliance reporting for SOX, PCI, DPA, HIPAA, FISMA, ITAR, MAS, EU GDPR, etc.?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/compliance-537f1040-5644-4ff8-a33a-f59e5a0a6b94) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [Is the StealthAUDIT Management platform flexible?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/platform-flexibility) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [How does STEALTHbits automate reporting?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/automated-reporting) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [How will STEALTHbits integrate with other technologies we are currently using?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/product-integration) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [How does STEALTHbits scale?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/product-scaling) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [View Netwrix Access Analyzer pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/netwrix-access-analyzer/reviews/netwrix-access-analyzer-review-1638298?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-31+16%3A25%3A53+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=7e01fea4-ec70-4e4a-b7a3-986b79700633&secure%5Btoken%5D=03353cf16c02930efc136b6fa2bb2413f3e8a2756f878efc178b08761f9c32d4&format=llm_user) ## Netwrix Access Analyzer Features **Administration** - Data Modelling - Recommendations - Workflow Management - Dashboards and Visualizations **Functionality** - Structure type - Contextual search - Template algorithms - Custom algorithms - False-positive management - Multiple file and location types - Real-time monitoring - Dashboard - Compliance - Reporting **Management** - Business Glossary - Data Discovery - Data Profililng - Reporting and Visualization - Data Lineage **Discovery & Classification - Data Security Posture Management (DSPM)** - Continuous real‑time monitoring - Discover & classify sensitive data - Custom classification support **Compliance** - Access Management - At-Risk Analysis - DLP Configuration - Sensitive Data Compliance **Compliance** - Sensitive Data Compliance - Training and Guidelines - Policy Enforcement - Compliance Monitoring **Security** - Access Control - Roles Management - Compliance Management **Agentic AI - Sensitive Data Discovery** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Proactive Assistance **Risk Prioritization - Data Security Posture Management (DSPM)** - Detect excessive entitlements & toxic combinations - Compliance posture assessment - Risk‑based exposure scoring **Administration** - Database Management - Deduplication - Backup - API / integrations **Data Quality** - Data Preparation - Data Distribution - Data Unification **Maintainence** - Data Quality Management - Policy Management **Remediation & Governance - Data Security Posture Management (DSPM)** - Guided remediation actions - Integration with enforcement tools - Track remediation progress & trends **Security ** - Data Transport - Data Types - Security Tools **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation - AI Text Summarization **Agentic AI - Data Governance** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Decision Making ## Top Netwrix Access Analyzer Alternatives - [Egnyte](https://www.g2.com/products/egnyte/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (1,137 reviews) - [Twilio Segment](https://www.g2.com/products/twilio-segment/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (554 reviews) - [Domo](https://www.g2.com/products/domo/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (987 reviews)