Case Study: National Weather Service Southern Region achieves up to 60 hours saved on compliance audits with Netwrix Auditor

The National Weather Service Southern Region Saves up to 60 Hours per Year on Compliance Audits

The National Weather Service Southern Region, a distributed NOAA agency supporting dozens of offices and thousands of employees, needed centralized IT security control and monitoring to meet NIST 800-series requirements and maintain 24/7 system availability. With two Active Directory environments, 24 local domain admins and 6 enterprise admins, lack of visibility threatened uptime, security and regulatory compliance.

By deploying Netwrix Auditor, the team gained centralized change monitoring, real‑time alerts, interactive search and predefined NIST-mapped reports. This reduced incidents and troubleshooting time, tightened control over privileged users, enabled continuous compliance and saved roughly 40–60 hours on audit preparation while improving overall system uptime.

National Weather Service Southern Region

Jeff Williams

Systems Integration Branch Chief