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Paramount Defenses Announces Availability of Gold Finger, World's First Access Assessment Solution for Microsoft's Active Directory

Gold Finger helps organizations secure access to vital Active Directory content and demonstrate regulatory compliance of access rights in Active Directory

Newport Beach, CA, Oct. 01, 2007 - Paramount Defenses Inc. today announced the availability of Gold Finger, the world's first solution to accurately determine resultant set of access in Active Directory.

Microsoft's Active Directory is the foundation of information security at over 85% of IT infrastructures worldwide as it stores and protects vital IT assets including user accounts and security groups and policies.

Constantly changing access requirements, distributed access management responsibilities, and Active Directory's complex security model make accurate access assessment a challenge. IT assets stored in Active Directory and protected by domain security groups thus remain exposed to unmitigated risks which undermine organizational security and impede regulatory compliance efforts.

"The need to accurately assess and lockdown access to Active Directory content is paramount to maintaining organizational security," said Sanjay Tandon, Founder and CEO of Paramount Defenses Inc. "Unfortunately, the tools needed to accurately assess access in Active Directory just don't exist. With Gold Finger's availability, organizations worldwide will finally be able to accurately find out who really has what access in their mission–critical deployments, and lock it down before it's too late."."

Gold Finger's availability allows administrators to accurately determine resultant access in Active Directory deployments. Its patent-pending assessment capabilities instantly identify excessive access grants and reveal security privilege escalation paths that could easily be used to compromise organizational security.

The Gold Finger empowers organizations to reliably and efficiently assess and secure access to vital Active Directory content and demonstrate regulatory compliance of access rights in the Active Directory.

The Gold Finger is now available. For more information, visit www.paramountdefenses.com.

About Paramount Defenses Inc.
Paramount Defenses Inc., headquartered in Newport Beach, CA, is a privately held U.S. information security company engaged in the development and delivery of innovative security solutions that solve pervasive security problems plaguing the IT world today.

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

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