# FileAudit Reviews **Vendor:** IS Decisions **Category:** [Cloud File Security Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-file-security) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 14 ## About FileAudit FileAudit makes it easy to audit the access and usage of sensitive data across both Windows File Servers and Cloud Storage. - Monitor in real-time all access, and access attempts. - Alert on suspicious file activity, alteration events, and irregular access time. - Execute automated responses to react immediately to potential threats. - Report on file access activity across on-premise storage and the cloud. Agentless, Remote and Non-Intrusive: FileAudit is installed in less than 3 minutes to protect all file servers without intrusion. ## FileAudit Reviews ### 1. Very Useful **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aritra B. | Team Lead, SRP/DSS Team, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2022 **What do you like best about FileAudit?** It is very useful one, you can get relevant audit information in proper structured way.It presentation helped a lot. There is no doubt of accuracy as well which is most important aspects. Also service is very good. **What do you dislike about FileAudit?** To be honest nothing to highly specify here, but if any one want to know may be it's user friendliness can be little bit improved for new users, but if user once get accustomed with the platform there should not be any issue. **What problems is FileAudit solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helped us to reduce irregular acces details also in getting alart for suspiciously activity. We faced multiple challenges to get access details in file servers that we overcomed through the details of real time access attempts. ### 2. 1 of a solution every Enterprise Organization would expect **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Devi Manoj A. | Associate Solutions Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2022 **What do you like best about FileAudit?** It's easy to set up and real-time monitoring of the access management across the devices and users is a good and effective way of managing access across multiple environments. **What do you dislike about FileAudit?** Not exactly a dislike factor but, its ability to integrate and connect with different ITSM solutions or Reporting solutions should improve for a seamless experience. For example PowerBI integration for having real-time dashboards on common reporting systems. **What problems is FileAudit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Access Management, Treat prevention, Denial management, Attempts, and intrusion alerts. and more. Enable Cloud Data Monitoring adds even more value for the overall solution. ### 3. File monitoring made easy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 15, 2022 **What do you like best about FileAudit?** Monitor or audit file movements at ease, see where files are being moved, who is moving them, and what computer is being used. , you can also set up a script whenever there is an alert to prevent unwanted file transfer or system slowness **What do you dislike about FileAudit?** None that I can think of, as everything regarding this software is spot on. **What problems is FileAudit solving and how is that benefiting you?** File query request by the security team and file recovery request if needed to see who last modified the file and if it can be recovered, the query runs at breeze and results are instant. ### 4. Very intuitive Interface **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cesar B. | Cybersecurity Innovation Office , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 03, 2022 **What do you like best about FileAudit?** The user interface is very intuitive and friendly. It makes it easy for new users to navigate across the tool. **What do you dislike about FileAudit?** So far I have not see any issue with the tool. **What problems is FileAudit solving and how is that benefiting you?** It makes auditing very easy as well as enhancing some IAM tasks for the team ### 5. Must have tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sanjeev M. | Head Of Development, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2022 **What do you like best about FileAudit?** The ease of monitoring and auditing the files, its usage and track the sensitivit folders. Setting up an auto alert is the best part of this tool. No other similar tool available in the market. **What do you dislike about FileAudit?** The speed can be improved then it's helpful. **What problems is FileAudit solving and how is that benefiting you?** To control the access and monitoring the usage. ### 6. Scan the file **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gopal K. | IT Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 24, 2022 **What do you like best about FileAudit?** We will come to whether the file has any script or virus is attached **What do you dislike about FileAudit?** It will take a long time to scan the file. **What problems is FileAudit solving and how is that benefiting you?** In checking suspicious scripting ### 7. Auditing is a very important aspect of our work. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 18, 2022 **What do you like best about FileAudit?** Alerts based on triggers automate our regular audit checks and **What do you dislike about FileAudit?** The only thing we could think of where FileAudit would fall short would be the cybersecurity side: AntiVirus, and DataLeakPrevention. **What problems is FileAudit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Manual checking of audit logs to check file access in addition to countless hours wasted on permissions configuring. ### 8. FileAudit Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2022 **What do you like best about FileAudit?** The options which I get before choosing what suits me the best and required. **What do you dislike about FileAudit?** I haven't seen anything of dislike so far. **What problems is FileAudit solving and how is that benefiting you?** The ease of use of any sensitive data across platforms. Monitor, alert, and Report on file access activity across platforms. ### 9. File Audit is very curucial in Cloud app environment to protect against the Threat and maintain CIA **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Naveed U. | Information Technology And Services Professional - Lead GRC - IAM Specialist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 09, 2022 **What do you like best about FileAudit?** GUI based solution, however a little bulky not straight forward setup. **What do you dislike about FileAudit?** a little Admin work and not easy to understand **Recommendations to others considering FileAudit:** Hopefully, next version will be more enhanced based upon the Feedback / Survey to improve the product. **What problems is FileAudit solving and how is that benefiting you?** No vision and transparency. File integrity issues ### 10. One of the best, less intrusive File Audit Programs at a very reasonable cost **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hanns S. | IT Director, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 03, 2019 **What do you like best about FileAudit?** It is SQL based and records everything...you need it to **What do you dislike about FileAudit?** The license is very finicky...but Customer Service is very good **Recommendations to others considering FileAudit:** Great program and worth the cost **What problems is FileAudit solving and how is that benefiting you?** The ability to know who deletes or accesses files during emergency situations...or any time. ### 11. It is a great tool to audit file server **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2019 **What do you like best about FileAudit?** It was easy to set up, it does a fine job and the price was right. **What do you dislike about FileAudit?** I cannot say that I've disliked anything. **What problems is FileAudit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sometimes it happens that a user accidentally delete some files/folders, but he can't remember which ones. With this tool, we can easily define what has to be restored from backup/shadow copy. ### 12. fileaudit with sql express **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2019 **What do you like best about FileAudit?** Relative ease of use. Report exports to xlsx was found to be very useful. **What do you dislike about FileAudit?** the 2GB limit in sql express required regular maintenance and monitoring of the database. **Recommendations to others considering FileAudit:** Use full version of MS SQL for larger db file size. **What problems is FileAudit solving and how is that benefiting you?** it allowed us to track file usage and activity for each one of our 200 users. ### 13. It Manager **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 09, 2019 **What do you like best about FileAudit?** Insight of all transaction of any given file or folder. **What do you dislike about FileAudit?** The speed of retrieving the data. It is setup using an Access database, therefore it isn't as quick as if it was setup on a SQL database. **What problems is FileAudit solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were having issues with employees moving folders. We were able to pinpoint the issues and we are currently working with the users to fix the issue. **Official Response from Chris Bunn:** > Thanks for your review. A free Access database is provided with FileAudit but organizations can change the database in the settings configuration. The Database systems supported by FileAudit are: - Microsoft Access database file (MDB) - Microsoft SQL Server Express 2008/2008 R2/2012/2014 - Microsoft SQL Server 2008/2008 R2/2012/2014 More info here: https://www.isdecisions.com/products/fileaudit/help/faq/database/use-sql-express-transfer-records-default-ms-access-db.htm Thanks again for your kind review. ### 14. Essential and effective software to manage files access data **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 06, 2019 **What do you like best about FileAudit?** The capabilities of really working in real time **What do you dislike about FileAudit?** Nothing up today... It has all we need at all **What problems is FileAudit solving and how is that benefiting you?** I've been able to control in real time unwanted access to reserved data - [View FileAudit pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/fileaudit/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-13+11%3A57%3A42+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=30d31f2a-b682-47ad-9e40-c5b1be5e22a1&secure%5Btoken%5D=c5ec35cf18e13a3c6fe915206c1db970c5232788fb3b290ad3f8547164b33461&format=llm_user) ## FileAudit Features **Security** - Encrypted Storage - Anomoly Detection - Data loss Prevention - Policy Enforcement **Cloud Visibility** - Data Discovery - Cloud Registry - Cloud Gap Analytics **Administration** - Reporting and Monitoring - Breadth of Partner Applications - Auditing **Access Control** - User, Role, and Access Management - Access Rights - User Analytics - Compliance Monitoring **Security** - Data Security - Data loss Prevention - Security Auditing **Identity** - SSO - Governance - User Analytics ## Top FileAudit Alternatives - [Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration](https://www.g2.com/products/check-point-harmony-email-collaboration/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (464 reviews) - [Cisco Duo](https://www.g2.com/products/cisco-duo/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (492 reviews) - [BetterCloud](https://www.g2.com/products/bettercloud/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (473 reviews)