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Paramount Defenses Announces Availability of Gold Finger 2.5, Featuring Enhanced Security, Audit and Compliance Reporting Capabilities for Microsoft Active Directory

Gold Finger Version 2.5 delivers over 400 security reports including true user and computer last logons, Active Directory Schema management reports, enhanced search and CSV generation capabilities, and support for Microsoft Windows 7.

Newport Beach, CA. April 01, 2010. Paramount Defenses Inc today announced the availability of Version 2.5 of its Gold Finger security and access reporting solution for Microsoft Active Directory, which features 400 security reports, offers enhanced search and export capabilities, and delivers support for Microsoft Windows 7 clients.

Microsoft's Active Directory is the focal point of organizational security, administrative delegation and report generation for IT audit and regulatory compliance in Microsoft Windows Server based IT infrastructures. Organizations thus require insight into the security state of IT resources stored in Active Directory and need to generate reports for internal audits and to demonstrate regulatory compliance.

Gold Finger from Paramount Defenses is the world's first and only accurate and real-time, security and access assessment, audit, reporting and compliance solution for Microsoft Active Directory based Windows Server IT infrastructures. It offers comprehensive security and access reporting capabilities in a simple, agent-less solution that requires zero maintenance, can be deployed in under 2 minutes and does not require any technical background to operate.

Today, Gold Finger is deployed at over 1000 prominent organizations in over 55 countries across the world.

Gold Finger Version 2.5 offers the following additional enhancements –

• True Last Logon Reports – The availability of these vital and accurate security reports empowers organizations to easily identify and document all stale and unused user and computer accounts in their Active Directory.
• Schema Management Reports – The ability to generate Schema management reports lets organizations easily assess all vital aspects of the Active Directory Schema, including the ability to detect changes and extensions.
• Enhanced Search Capabilities – The enhanced search capabilities let IT admins effortlessly locate accounts based on their group memberships or SIDs, and locate security groups that may be members of other groups.
• Instant Search-to-CSV Feature – This nifty feature lets IT admins instantly output not only report results but also search results to a CSV file for offline or advanced data analysis, data archival and data sharing purposes.
• Detailed State-Change Time Reporting – The ability to know precisely when a vital IT asset may have been last modified or when a user may have last logged on or failed a logon can be very useful and is now available.
• Support for Microsoft Windows 7 Clients – Gold Finger's inbuilt self-protection mechanisms have been enhanced to ensure that it can now seamlessly be installed and deployed on Microsoft Windows 7 clients.

The enhanced reporting and search capabilities enable organizations to efficiently generate essential security reports and demonstrate regulatory compliance, and simplify IT management by making the search, location and documentation of vital IT assets such as vital user accounts and high-value security groups more efficient and reliable. Support for Microsoft Windows 7 clients lets organizations deploy Gold Finger on a variety of clients including Windows 7 powered computers.

Gold Finger's innovative automated report generation capabilities improve IT efficiency by 90% and deliver 100% precision, eliminating any possibility of human error. The ability to generate printable security reports makes demonstrating regulatory compliance of and performing security audits of IT resources stored in Active Directory as easy as touching one button.

Gold Finger is available in four powerful editions, including a Free Edition and three paid editions – Lite, Standard and Professional, which range from US $999 to US$299,999/- for an annual license.

The enhanced version of Gold Finger is now available. For additional information, please visit http://www.paramountdefenses.com/goldfinger.html.

ABOUT PARAMOUNT DEFENSES INC
Paramount Defenses Inc, an information security company headquartered in Newport Beach, CA, develops innovative security solutions that address paramount global IT security needs.

Contact: Paramount Defenses Inc.
Jacqueline Williams
jwilliams@paramountdefenses.com
949-468-5770

Paramount Defenses Inc is a trademark and Gold Finger is a trademark of Paramount Defenses Inc. Microsoft, Windows and Active Directory are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.

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