Case Study: North Central Texas Council of Governments achieves real-time change control and faster security investigations with Quest Change Auditor

Government agency improves security and productivity

The North Central Texas Council of Governments (NCTCOG), a regional government agency serving 16 counties around Dallas–Fort Worth, lacked real-time visibility into Active Directory and file‑system changes. Their existing file auditing ran on nightly scans and they had no AD auditing, which delayed incident response, complicated investigations and hampered their ability to meet audit requests.

By deploying Quest Change Auditor for Active Directory, Windows File Servers and EMC — later adding SharePoint and SQL modules plus Enterprise Reporter and Security Explorer — NCTCOG gained real‑time auditing, alerts, scheduled reporting and integrated cross‑system search. The result: immediate detection and faster forensic response, quicker restorations, improved security and productivity, and broader functionality at the same or lower overall cost than their previous solution.

North Central Texas Council of Governments

Brett Ogletree

Information Security Officer