Case Study: American Career College achieves faster Active Directory change response and stronger compliance with Netwrix Auditor

American Career College Ensures Campus Data Security with Netwrix Auditor for Active Directory

American Career College, a multi‑campus California institution training health‑care professionals, faced a security and compliance challenge when changes to Active Directory — particularly group policies made by local campus technicians — were not being tracked effectively. With about 5,000 students, 600 employees and a small central IT team, the college needed continuous auditing, faster detection of unauthorized or risky changes (like unexpected admin group additions or password‑expiration attribute edits), and proof that permissions followed a need‑to‑know model.

They deployed Netwrix Auditor for Active Directory after a successful trial; the product installed quickly and met requirements for ease, cost and functionality. Netwrix provides real‑time alerts, detailed reports and rollback capability, enabling safer delegation to field technicians, automated detection of inactive users and password issues, and much faster incident response — reducing average resolution time from eight hours to one and significantly lowering non‑compliance risk.

American Career College

Ofer Amrami

Director, Infrastructure and Operations