How Lepide helped United Dairy Farmers to Secure their Active Directory
The challenge.
UDF’s IT team lacked real-time visibility into changes being made across their Active Directory and Windows File Servers. Any attempt to investigate suspicious behavior required combing through logs manually—a time-consuming and error-prone process that left the organization vulnerable to undetected threats.
Audit reporting was also a challenge. Internal and external compliance audits required detailed change histories and user activity reports, which were difficult to generate with existing tools. The lack of automation in their audit process meant valuable time was spent on compiling data rather than responding to potential issues.
Additionally, UDF had no consistent way of monitoring privilege changes or access anomalies, making it difficult to enforce least privilege and detect early signs of privilege abuse.
Lepide solution
To address these issues, UDF implemented the Lepide Data Security Platform. The solution provided complete visibility into all changes being made across Active Directory and File Servers, enabling UDF to monitor user behavior in real time.
Lepide’s threshold-based alerting allowed UDF to detect unusual or high-risk activity, such as privilege escalation or changes to critical security groups, and respond immediately before those actions could lead to larger breaches.
The platform also automated the generation of detailed audit reports tailored to UDF’s compliance requirements. Reports could be scheduled or triggered on demand, reducing manual effort and ensuring auditors had the evidence they needed to assess UDF’s security posture.
Crucially, Lepide provided actionable insights into user permissions and access patterns—allowing the IT team to identify accounts with excessive privileges, track changes over time, and strengthen access controls.