Paramount Defenses is a privately held American Cyber Security company that develops cyber security solutions to help organizations secure their foundational Microsoft Active Directory deployments. Active Directory is the foundation of cyber security at over 85% of all organizations worldwide. The company's global customer base spans six continents, and its customers include the United States Government as well as several Fortune 100 companies.
The company was founded in 2006 by Sanjay Tandon, former Microsoft Program Manager for Active Directory Security.
The company is headquartered in Newport Beach, California and led by its founder. It operates under the guidance of an Advisory Board that amongst others includes Karen Worstell, former Microsoft Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Donald Codling, former Unit Chief Liaison from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Cyber Division to the Department of Homeland Security National Cyber Security Division.
Paramount Defenses is widely regarded as and was recognized as a pioneer in the effective access audit space at the prestigious RSA Conference 2007 which was keynoted by Bill Gates. Its innovative patented technology governs the precise determination of effective access, including privileged access, in computer systems worldwide.
The company is particularly known for its flagship Microsoft-endorsed, Gold Finger Active Directory Audit Tool Suite that embodies its patented technology and uniquely helps organizations accurately audit security, access, permissions, delegations, effective permissions/access and privileged access in Active Directory deployments.
The company is also known for The Paramount Brief, an executive summary, declassified in 2016, that describes a serious cyber security risk that potentially impacts the foundational cyber security of 85% of organizations worldwide.
The company's CEO, regarded as one of the world's leading cyber security experts on Microsoft Active Directory Security, is known for sharing thought-provoking cyber security insights on the Active Directory Security Blog and the Cyber Security Blog, and for founding and leading the world's largest community of Active Directory Security Professionals on LinkedIn, comprising more than 3000 members from many of the world's top 1000 or more organizations.
The company's Active Directory focused cyber security solutions and insights help secure and defend over 5000 organizations in over 100 countries worldwide.
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Products
The company's flagship product, its Gold Finger Active Directory Audit Tool Suite is composed of 7 Active Directory Audit Tools -
- Active Directory Security Audit Tool helps organizations fulfill their essential Active Directory security audit needs.
- Active Directory Group Membership Audit Tool helps organizations audit Active Directory security group memberships.
- Kerberos Token-Size Calculator helps organizations identify accounts that may be exposed to the risk of Token-bloat.
- Active Directory ACL Viewer and Exporter helps organizations analyze and dump Active Directory access control lists (ACLs).
- Active Directory Permissions Analyzer helps organizations easily perform Active Directory permissions audits.
- Active Directory Effective Permissions/Access Audit Tool uniquely helps organizations determine effective permissions/access in Active Directory.
- Active Directory Administrative/Privileged Access and Delegation Audit Tool helps organizations automatically audit privileged-access domain-wide.
In 2016, the company also released a free version of its Active Directory Security Audit Tool.
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History
Paramount Defenses was founded in 2006.
In 2007, Paramount Defenses was recognized as a Top-10 Innovator at the RSA Conference 2007, which was keynoted by Bill Gates.
In 2008 it was recognized by Fast Company's Readers as a Top-50 Most Innovative Companies of 2008, alongside FedEx Corporation, SalesForce.com and others.
In 2009, Paramount Defenses announced availability of Gold Finger 2.0, the world's first fully automated effective access audit solution.
In 2012, amongst numerous other prominent government and business organizations, Google became a Paramount Defenses customer.
In 2013, the United States Patent Office awarded its founder a cyber security patent governing the accurate determination of effective access in information systems.
In 2014, Paramount Defenses announced availability of Gold Finger 6.0, the world's only automated and accurate effective access audit solution for Active Directory, the culmination of over half a decade of research and development.
By 2015, Paramount Defenses' global customer base included numerous prominent business and government organizations across 6 continents worldwide.
In 2016, Paramount Defenses announced its intention to donate up to $50 Million of its Active Directory Audit software and to offer a free version of its software.
In 2017, Paramount Defenses CEO wrote a letter to the U.S. President Donald Trump regarding Global and Cyber Security.
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