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Security Group Compliance Mana...
Overview
4 min
activate security group compliance manager (sgcm) delivers continuous visibility and automated control over group and directory changes within active directory it ensures security policies are enforced in real time, automatically remediates unauthorised updates, and provides audit ready reporting across privileged and sensitive groups key capabilities near real time monitoring leverages the ad dirsync control to detect directory changes within seconds, including user, computer, and group modifications group membership enforcement monitors and enforces membership of protected and restricted groups, automatically removing or alerting on unauthorised additions policy driven workflows responds to detected changes through configurable workflows that trigger actions such as notifications, removals, or job submissions automated remediation detects and reverses unauthorised updates directly in active directory, ensuring compliance with corporate access policies comprehensive audit trail captures all change events with contextual data for audit and governance reporting benefits reduced risk prevents privilege escalation and enforces least privilege principles through automated monitoring and removal actions operational assurance eliminates manual review of ad changes by automatically detecting, categorising, and responding to group membership updates audit compliance maintains a verifiable record of policy enforcement and group integrity, supporting internal controls and external audits how it works activate security group compliance manager operates as an extension of the activate platform, integrating with the ad connector framework it continuously synchronises directory data using dirsync cookies, detects new or modified objects, and triggers activate workflows in response these workflows can perform compliance checks, notify administrators, or roll back unauthorised changes integration activate platform integration runs natively within activate, using shared roles, approval policies, and audit capabilities workflow engine utilises activate workflows to define organisation specific compliance rules and remediation actions security group compliance manager provides dedicated workflows for sensitive and operational groups, ensuring security boundaries are continuously validated typical use cases enforcing membership rules for privileged groups such as domain admins or exchange admins monitoring creation of unauthorised security or distribution groups removing users added directly to protected groups outside activate workflows alerting security or audit teams when group memberships change in production directories related products activate identity manager – for provisioning and role based user management activate privileged access management (pam) – for just in time elevation and secure privileged operations related components activate anywhere – provides secure external access and mobile password resets