# Quest Security Explorer Reviews
**Vendor:** Quest Software  
**Category:** [Identity and Access Management (IAM) Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/identity-and-access-management-iam)
## About Quest Security Explorer
Use a single console to manage access controls, permissions and security across your various Microsoft platforms, including Active Directory (AD), Windows Server, Exchange Server, SharePoint Server and SQL Server. Security Explorer® provides an array of security enhancements, including the ability to identify who has rights to resources across the entire organization. You can also grant, revoke, clone, modify and overwrite permissions quickly and from a central location. - Search Microsoft servers to see who has rights to resources enterprise-wide - Manage permissions across Microsoft servers from a central, unified console - Back up, baseline and restore security and permissions, all while retaining data integrity - Report on who has access to what to streamline security audits






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## Quest Security Explorer Features
**Functionality**
- User provisioning
- Password manager
- Single Sign-on
- Enforces policies
- Authentication
- Multi-factor authentication

** Type**
- On-premises solution
- Cloud-solution

** Reporting**
- Tracking
- Reporting
- Access & Permission Change Reporting
- Compliance & Audit Trail Export

**Authentication & Authorization - Identity and Access Management (IAM)**
- Adaptive & Contextual Access Control

**Administration & Governance - Identity and Access Management (IAM)**
- Identity Lifecycle Management
- Self‑Service Account Management

**Generative AI - Identity and Access Management (IAM)**
- AI‑Driven Access Anomaly Detection
- Automated Policy Tuning
- Predictive Role Recommendations

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