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Learn why more businesses are moving to Lepide Auditor for reliable Active Directory and File Server auditing, seamless compliance reporting, and complete visibility across their IT environment.
The below table is based on publicly availably information and feedback from our customers (including customers that have come to us directly from Netwrix).
| Capability | Lepide | Netwrix | Why It Matters |
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| Active Directory / Entra ID Auditing |  |
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You need continuous visibility into user, group, and permission changes in AD. Lepide captures every change in real time, while Netwrix architecture causes some delays in reporting. |
| Group Policy Auditing | |
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Group Policy misconfigurations are a top cause of outages. Lepide tracks every GPO change and compares versions side-by-side, helping you roll back risky edits. |
| File and Folder Access Auditing (File Servers, SharePoint, Nutanix, Nasuni, etc.) | |
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File access auditing is critical for insider threat detection and compliance. Lepide gives detailed read/write/delete activity and permission changes; Netwrix offers limited access reporting. |
| File Copy Auditing | |
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Copying files is an essential requirement for business. However, when this functionality is misused, data security is compromised. Lepide provides a straightforward approach to monitoring files which have been copied. |
| Permissions and Ownership Changes | |
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Excessive permissions create major risk. Lepide continuously audits permission drift and ownership changes across AD and file systems; Netwrix is more limited here. |
| Logon / Logoff Auditing | |
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Failed logons and lateral movement attempts often precede attacks. Lepide tracks every logon event in real time with anomaly detection. |
| Exchange Auditing | |
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Mailbox access, send-as, and permission changes are essential to monitor. Lepide correlates these with user activity; Netwrix requires extra setup. |
| Real-Time Alerting for Critical Changes | |
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Immediate alerts let you act before damage occurs. Lepide delivers real-time alerts via email, Teams, or SIEM integrations. |
| User Behavior Analysis | |
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Linking changes, logons, and file activity helps detect insider threats. Lepide’s unified audit engine makes this automatic; Netwrix lacks correlation. |
| Automated Threat Response | |
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Lepide can automatically disable accounts or revoke access on suspicious behavior; Netwrix offers limited manual workflows. |
| Permissions Remediation | |
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Detects and fixes excessive permissions directly from the console — no scripts or external tools required. |
| Scalability | |
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Lepide is a perfect fit for the mid-market and enterprise organization. Netwrix struggles to scale efficiently. |
| Performance | |
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Lepide provides more unified support; Netwrix’s acquisitions have fragmented support across different technologies. |
| Support | |
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Lepide provides more unified support; Netwrix’s acquisitions have fragmented support across different technologies. |
| Pricing | |
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Lepide is more cost-effective, with lower hardware requirements and a simpler pricing model. |
Our competitors make solving the problem very expensive. We don’t. There are also no hidden costs and no need for pro services.
Our solution is simple to deploy and fast to get up and running. If you have a problem to solve right now, we’ll solve it fast.
We win on functionality. Our reports are the easiest to use and the most flexible, and our alerts are actually delivered in real-time.
Lepide’s AI engine continuously learns from user behavior to respond to threats, eliminate excessive privilege, and enforce zero trust at scale.
Lepide is straightforward to use and effective right off the bat. Plus, the level of patience, attentiveness and technical knowhow is far beyond most support and sales teams I’ve seen before.
Drayke Jackson Security Engineer
We chose Lepide as they were able to offer us threat detection and response, and a way of separating out reporting duties to a web console – all from one platform.
Kevin Gallagher Systems Administrator
Lepide is a perfect fit for our IT Security and Compliance requirements. It helps us cut out a lot of wasted time and money and now we know we can be compliant with industry standards.
Agnel Dsilva IT Administrator
Through our universal auditing module, which enables you to connect to any platform using a restAPI or Syslog, you can get visibility over the broadest scope of platforms on the market today. No other vendor offers the range of on-premise and cloud-based platforms that Lepide can offer, including Varonis.
Active Directory 
Microsoft Entra ID 
Exchange 
File Server 
Microsoft 365 
SharePoint 
