Active Directory Privileged Access Auditor

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"We are very pleased to see Paramount Defenses, a valued Microsoft partner, offer an innovative security solution (in Gold Finger) that helps enhance security and compliance in Active Directory environments."

Charles Coates, Senior Product Manager
Identity and Security Business Group

Overview

Organizations have a paramount cyber security need to be able to accurately*, quickly and efficiently audit privileged access, including delegated administrative privileges, and identify privileged users in their Active Directory, to -

Audit and Secure Active Directory
Perform Privileged Account Discovery
Implement Privileged Access Management
Attain and Maintain Least Privileged Access
Securely Manage Identities and Access in AD
Gain High-Value Active Directory Threat Intelligence
Manage Risk and Demonstrate Regulatory Compliance

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Active Directory Privileged Access Auditor uniquely and trustworthily empowers IT personnel to fulfill this need.

* Based on accurate effective permissions analysis

Active Directory Privileged Access Auditor

Active Directory Privileged Access Auditor is a specialized audit tool designed by former Microsoft Program Manager for Active Directory Security to help IT personnel accurately audit privileged access, especially to audit delegated administrative privileges in Active Directory, domain-wide.

Active Directory Privileged Access Auditor

"The need to know exactly who has what privileged access in Active Directory is paramount."

Sanjay Tandon, CEO, Paramount Defenses

Formerly, Program Manager,
Active Directory Security
Microsoft Corporation

Unrivaled Active Directory Privileged Access Insights

Privileged Access is the new holy grail for perpetrators and the #1 target in organizational cyber security worldwide.

At 85% of organizations worldwide, the proverbial Keys to the Kingdom, i.e. the most powerful Domain Admin level privileged access, as well as the vast majority of all privileged access, resides inside their Active Directory.

From the SolarWinds Breach to the Colonial Pipeline Hack, and every major breach in the last decade, the perpetrators targeted and compromised just one Active Directory privileged user account, then used it to accomplish their objective.

The single most important and effective cyber security measure organizations can take to prevent getting breached is to accurately identify (i.e. audit) and minimize (lock-down) the number of users with privileged access in Active Directory.

Our unrivaled Microsoft-endorsed Active Directory Privileged Access Auditor uniquely enable organizations worldwide to accurately identify (i.e. audit), and subsequently minimize (lock-down) privileged access in Active Directory.

Instant, Accurate Privileged Access Insights

There is only one way to accurately audit privileged access in Active Directory and that involves accurately determining effective permissions on Active Directory objects.

Our Active Directory Privileged Access Auditor is the world's only tool that can automatically accurately determine effective permissions on thousands of Active Directory objects, and map them into enactable administrative tasks, to ultimately determine who actually has what privileged access, including who has what delegated administrative privileges, in Active Directory.

It can also identify the underlying security permissions and security group memberships that enable all such identified privileged access, letting organizations quickly and easily lockdown privileged access in Active Directory.

Our Active Directory Privileged Access Auditor can thus deliver instant, accurate privileged access insights and uniquely empower you to find out exactly who has what privileged access in Active Directory, where and how.

Only Gold Finger Accurately Identifies Privileged Access in Active Directory

Active Directory's security model lets organizations precisely delegate privileged access (i.e. administrative privileges), but it makes it very difficult to accurately audit privileged access, especially to audit delegated administrative privileges.

In every AD, there are thousands of allow, deny, explicit and inherited security permissions, granted to users and groups, and together they impact the actual (effective) access, making it very difficult to accurately audit privileged access.

Most organizations and solutions do not know this fact, and determine "Who has what permissions in Active Directory," which is incorrect and delivers vastly inaccurate results, reliance upon which leaves them substantially vulnerable.

There is only one correct way to accurately audit privileged access in Active Directory, and that is by accurately determining "Who has what effective permissions in Active Directory?"

Only Gold Finger can accurately determine effective permissions in Active Directory, and thus only Gold Finger can accurately audit privileged access in Active Directory. In fact, our Active Directory Privileged Access Auditor fully automates the accurate determination of effective permissions, domain-wide.

Eliminate The World's #1 Attack Vector

Active Directory Privilege Escalation poses the world's #1 cyber security risk and is the world's #1 attack vector because it clearly and directly threatens the foundational security of over 85% of organizations worldwide.

It can be easily exploited to compromise the security of virtually everything in Active Directory, including any domain user account, computer account, security group, OU etc., and particularly all-powerful Active Directory privileged user accounts and security groups, as well as high-value targets such as AzureADConnect that enable Cloud integration.

Fact - In virtually ever major cyber security breach, including the SolarWinds Breach, Colonial Pipeline Hack, Okta Breach and others, perpetrators targeted, compromised and misused a single Active Directory privileged user account to gain unrestricted system-wide access and then inflict colossal damage.

Our Active Directory Privileged Access Auditor uniquely empowers organizations to accurately and quickly identify and lockdown all excessive/unauthorized privileged access in Active Directory, thereby virtually eliminating the #1 attack vector to organizational cyber security.

Mission-critical Active Directory Privileged Access Insights

Active Directory Privileged Access Auditor can instantly and accurately identify -

Who can run Mimikatz DCSync against your Active Directory?
Who can modify the ACL protecting the AdminSDHolder object in Active Directory?
Who can change the membership of all Domain Admins equivalent privileged security groups?
Who can link a malicious GPO to an OU in Active Directory to unleash ransomware domain-wide?
Who can reset the passwords of privileged, executive and high-value user accounts in Active Directory?
Who can disable the use of Smartcards for interactive logon on all domain user accounts in Active Directory?
Who can create, manage/control and delete accounts, groups and organizational units (OUs) in Active Directory?
Who can change the membership of all domain security groups (e.g. Confidential Access Group) in Active Directory?
Who can change privileged access in Active Directory to instantly obtain access to millions of organizational IT resources?
Who can compromise Active Directory integrated apps/services (e.g. Azure Connect) by modifying Active Directory contents?

* If your existing tools merely rely on determining "Who has what permissions in Active Directory," you're likely operating on dangerously inaccurate insights.

Technical Summary

The accurate determination of privileged access in and across Active Directory is extremely difficult and challenging.

There is only one way to accurately audit privileged access in Active Directory and that involves determining effective permissions on Active Directory objects. Active Directory Privileged Access Auditor is the world's only tool that actually calculates effective permissions to accurately determine who has what privileged access in Active Directory.

Specifically, Active Directory Privileged Access Auditor accomplishes the remarkable technical feat of automating the accurate determination of effective permissions/access on thousands of Active Directory objects in minutes and in a single assessment, to identify exactly who has what privileged access in and across an entire Active Directory domain.

Features

Accurate Domain-wide
Privileged Access Audit

Accurately audit privileged access domain-wide at a button's touch

Enterprise-Grade
Audit Scalability

Automatically determine privileged access on 1000s of objects

Privileged Access<br/> Source Identification

Privileged Access Source Identification

Pinpoint permissions that entitle a user to specific privileged access

Instant, Real-time Audit

Instantly audit effective privileged access domain-wide in real-time

Unrivaled Efficiency

Accomplish in minutes what could otherwise take months to do

Example Reports

The following real-world examples illustrate the Active Directory Privileged Access Auditor's unique capabilities -

Instantly audit delegated administrative privileges domain-wide in Active Directory.
Accurately discover exactly who has what privileged access in and across an entire Active Directory domain.
Uncover exactly who can change the membership of all privileged security groups (e.g. Domain Admins) in Active Directory.
Find out exactly who can reset the passwords of all privileged domain user accounts (e.g. Administrator ) in Active Directory.
Discover exactly who can create domain user accounts, where (i.e. under which OUs), and how anywhere in Active Directory.
Identify exactly who can reset the passwords of 1000s of domain user accounts (e.g. CEO's account ) in Active Directory.
Learn exactly who can change the membership of 1000s of domain security groups (e.g. Enterprise Admins ) in Active Directory.
Uncover exactly who can delete which domain user and computer accounts, security groups, OUs etc., and how in Active Directory.
Identify exactly who can disable the requirement to have Smart-card authentication for all domain user accounts in Active Directory.
Find and eliminate thousands of privilege escalation paths leading to privileged access in an across your entire Active Directory.

Benefits

Accurately Audit Privileged Access
in Active Directory

Accurately audit privileged access domain-wide in Active Directory

Audit Privileged Access
Domain-wide

Automatically audit privileged access domain-wide on 1000s of AD objects

Attain Least Privileged Access
in Active Directory

Reliably attain and maintain least privileged access in Active Directory

Complete Steps 1, 2 and 3
of your PAM Journey

Accurately discover privileged users in AD, secure them and control access

Demonstrate
Regulatory Compliance

Correctly demonstrate compliance concerning privileged access in AD

Requirements and Licensing

Active Directory Privileged Access Auditor can be instantly downloaded, installed and run on any Windows computer. Its use does not require any admin privileges, any changes to Active Directory or any knowledge of Active Directory.

The tool is licensed on a subscription model, and can be licensed on a monthly or annual basis. Its capabilities can also be availed of as a service, and now its Top-10 reports are also available in our unique Gold Finger Mini solution.

"We use the Gold Finger from Paramount Defenses to fulfill our Active Directory Audit needs. It saves us a lot of time and effort and we would recommend it to anyone who needs to perform Active Directory audits trustworthily and cost-effectively. Great product, great support."

Sean Seeliger, Architect