Remote Desktop Audit

Working on a computer remotely comes with a series of obvious advantages, but at the same time, it leaves the door open for some vulnerabilities you may want to consider.

However, software solutions capable of monitoring the activity of users connecting to a server remotely do exist, and Remote Desktop Audit is one of them.

Following an uneventful setup, which, it must be mentioned, does not require installing any agents, you are prompted with a well-organized user interface that lets you group the remote PCs into folders so that you easily analyze their activity.

Adding a computer to be monitored can be done either by typing in its name or IP address or simply browsing for it on your network. As for the credentials you associate with each computer, they can be inherited or can belong to the current user or a user you indicate.

In any case, once the monitoring process has been initiated, the main window provides you with in-depth info about the PCs you are keeping an eye on. Details about when the user logged on or off are offered, along with their IP address, server, and any event information.

If you want to automate the monitoring process, you can resort to the “Event log” menu, which can auto-update data. This is also where you need to go in order to export the summary, sessions or events recorded during the audit.

Helps you prevent malicious connection attempts

That also means that there are multiple filters for the logs you create in order to analyze remote desktop sessions, with the possibility of inspecting them either in tabular or graphical representation.

As for how the application can prove handy in real-life scenarios, you may want to know that it can spot failed logons as well as events that may be connected to malicious attempts to get the reins of your computer.

Remote Desktop Audit provides you with solid means of being in full control over who is accessing your servers via remote desktop sessions. It comes with a rich feature set that lets carry out an investigation tailored to your needs, and the interaction with the program should be untroublesome, what with the GUI being quite intuitive.