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Paramount Defenses Announces Availability of Gold Finger 2.0, An Innovative Access Assessment, Audit And Reporting Solution for Microsoft Active Directory

Gold Finger 2.0 empowers organizations to efficiently and precisely assess, audit, report and demonstrate regulatory compliance of administrative access grants provisioned in Active Directory.

Newport Beach, CA (Business Wire) April 27, 2009. Paramount Defenses Inc today announced the availability of Gold Finger 2.0, an innovative access assessment, security audit, regulatory compliance and reporting solution that can instantly and precisely determine who is provisioned what administrative access in Microsoft Windows Server-based IT infrastructures.

A GLOBAL NEED

Microsoft's Windows Server operating system powers a majority of IT infrastructures worldwide. At the foundation of security and management in these IT infrastructures lies Microsoft's enterprise directory service, Active Directory, which is used to store, protect and manage vital organizational IT assets such as employee user accounts, domain security groups and computer management policies.

Active Directory allows organizations to easily delegate administrative responsibilities for IT management with high precision. However, frequently changing IT management requirements driven by dynamic business needs make it challenging for organizations to efficiently determine and control exactly who has what administrative access on which IT assets.

The inability to exactly determine who has what administrative access leaves IT assets exposed and vulnerable to compromise from the threat of accidental, coerced or maliciously acquired misuse of even minimal administrative privilege, particularly from within the organization.

AN INNOVATIVE SOLUTION

Gold Finger 2.0's innovative patent-pending administrative access assessment capabilities completely automate the assessment of administrative grants provisioned on IT assets stored in Active Directory, helping organizations efficiently determine, audit and control exactly who has what administrative access on these assets, ensuring adequate protection.

Automation improves efficiency by 90% and delivers 100% precision, eliminating any possibility of human error. The ability to generate printable access reports makes demonstrating regulatory compliance of and performing security audits of administrative access provisioned in Active Directory as easy as touching one button.

"The ability to view, audit and lockdown administrative access rights to an entire Active Directory network significantly improves the security of an IT infrastructure" said Charles Coats, Senior Product Manager with the Identity and Security Business Group at Microsoft Corporation. "We are very pleased to see Paramount Defenses, a valued Microsoft partner, offer an innovative security solution that helps enhance security and compliance in Active Directory environments."

Gold Finger's administrative access assessment capabilities perfectly complement Active Directory's powerful administrative access delegation capabilities letting organizations delegate administrative IT management responsibilities natively in Active Directory with complete insight and assurance, leveraging their investment in Windows Server to gain substantial cost efficiencies resulting from the obviated need to procure additional administrative access management solutions.

"Organizations running on Windows Server have a mission-critical business need to be able to precisely assess administrative access grants in Active Directory" said Sanjay Tandon, Chief Executive Officer of Paramount Defenses Inc, and formerly Microsoft Program Manager for Active Directory Security. "Gold Finger 2.0 empowers organizations to precisely delegate, assess, audit, report and manage administrative authority for IT management natively in Active Directory, significantly enhancing security and substantially reducing IT costs."

Gold Finger 2.0 is now available. For additional information, 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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