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What is Gold Finger?
Gold Finger is an IT security analysis solution that helps IT administrative personnel assess and control the distribution of powerful delegated administrative grants in their mission-critical Active Directory deployments.
In addition, it can also generate essential identity and access management related security and access reports in IT infrastructures powered by Microsoft's Active Directory.
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Who is Gold Finger primarily designed for?
Gold Finger was primarily designed to help IT administrative personnel find and eliminate dangerous unauthorized delegated administrative grants in their Active Directory before malicious perpetrators have a chance to find and exploit them to inflict damage.
In addition, it can also help IT administrative personnel generate security and access reports for identity access management and to fulfill audit and compliance related reporting in Microsoft Active Directory environments.
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What does it take to deploy Gold Finger?
Gold Finger is a simple 32-bit Windows application (like Winzip) that can be instantly downloaded, installed and deployed on any domain-joined computer in under 2 minutes.
It has no deployment dependencies whatsoever – no services to install, no agents to deploy and no administrative access to provision. It is a simple plug-n-play Windows application.
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How is Gold Finger licensed?
Gold Finger's security and access assessment capabilities are available as an unlimited-use software application licensed on an annual basis and available in four editions.
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How is Gold Finger different from other Active Directory based reporting solutions that may be available from other vendors?
While there are many Active Directory reporting solutions offered by many vendors, only Gold Finger can accurately determine resultant access in Active Directory.
Only Gold Finger's patent-pending access assessment capabilities provide accurate access-assessment reporting capabilities. Other solutions claim to deliver access reports, but in fact these reports are NOT inaccurate access reports.
Gold Finger is also the world's most trustworthy Active Directory security reporting solution, having been 100% developed in and supported from within the U.S., coded by U.S. citizens, and featuring active application security protection designed to provide a highly trustworthy reporting experience.
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How does Gold Finger help organizations enhance security, perform audits and demonstrate compliance?
In Microsoft Windows Server based IT infrastructures, Active Directory is the foundation of identity, security and access management, as it stores and protects vital IT resources such as user accounts, computer accounts, security groups and security policies. It is also the focal point of administrative delegation.
Organizations absolutely need to know what is the state of security of vital IT resources stored in the Active Directory, and more importantly who is delegated what administrative access in Active Directory, and how.
For example, organizations need to know how many user accounts are currently disabled, but equally importantly, they also need to know how many individuals can currently enable these disabled accounts, and how so.
Such information is absolutely essential to maintaining security, performing security audits and demonstrating the regulatory compliance of Active Directory resource security and access rights.
Gold Finger empowers organizations to obtain this essential information in the form of 100% accurate and real-time security and access reports, which can be generated on-demand, and easily printed and furnished as evidence for demonstrating regulatory compliance and for satisfactory internal security audits.
