Guardian
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Guardian
Unified console: hybrid AD change monitoring, instant rollback, & threat detection — the most comprehensive solution.
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Hybrid Active Directory Recovery and Monitoring Software
Avoid Costly Hybrid AD Outages from Cyber Threats or Mistakes – In a Single Solution
Your Active Directory (AD) or Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) contain vital user identities that are crucial to ensuring your business operates without interruption. Whether from malicious actions, like cyberattacks and malware, or mistakes, like accidental deletions and misconfigurations, corruption of your Active Directory can stop your business in its tracks and cause costly outages that can last hours, days, or even weeks.
Why Cayosoft Guardian
Cayosoft Guardian was designed to reduce the complexity of hybrid Active Directory security, by combining threat detection, monitoring, and recovery into one comprehensive solution. Cayosoft Guardian continuously monitors directories and services, allowing you to isolate suspect changes and instantly recover unwanted changes made to both objects and settings. This is done across on-premises AD, hybrid AD, Entra ID, Office 365, Microsoft Teams, and Exchange Online, all from Cayosoft Guardian’s single, unified console.
Protect Vital Infrastructure
Active Directory is used by 90% of organizations worldwide, making it a prime target for cyberattacks.
Stop Attackers In Their Tracks
Discover and eliminate hybrid AD vulnerabilities. Identify and revert malicious changes before exploited.
Keep Business Running
Avoid or minimize the impact of costly ransomware attacks and AD outages. Ensure business continuity.
Features & Benefits
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With comprehensive solutions, exceptional support, and frequent releases it’s no surprise we have 99% customer retention and 4.8/5 star customer satisfaction ratings.
...Clearly Delivers on its Promises
“Guardian clearly delivers on its promises. Its continuing monitoring and protection of on-premises and/or Azure Active Directories (now Microsoft Entra ID) guarantees that most changes can be rolled back swiftly and at the touch of a button, without administrators having to go through numerous logs or resort to backup scripts or files.”
NUNO MOTA
Microsoft MVP
...Easily Identify the Issue & Restore Access
“An inaccurate update caused our internal communications to go down. Over 4k medical personnel lost access to their Microsoft Teams and Exchange. With Cayosoft Guardian, we were able to easily identify the issue and restore access. It allowed us to revert the change with just a few clicks.”
IT MANAGER
National Healthcare Organization
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Guardian FAQ
Cayosoft Guardian provides monitoring, backup, and recovery for a number of AD objects, attributes, and settings critical to maintaining AD security and operational integrity, including:
On-Premises Active Directory (AD):
- Contact, group, user, and computer objects and attributes
- Group memberships, group policy objects (GPOs) and GPO settings, privileged groups, organizational units (OUs), and Conditional Access policies (CAPs)
- On-premises Exchange settings and policies
Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD):
- Users, groups, and guests
- Roles, group memberships, administrative units, and Conditional Access policies
Office 365:
- Exchange Online and Microsoft Teams settings and policies
Yes, Cayosoft Guardian delivers continuous AD monitoring and real-time alerts across hybrid Active Directory environments to changes, like AD users and groups, Entra ID roles, privileged AD groups, and Microsoft Teams settings. Cayosoft Guardian’s alert query also provides a simple way for you to create custom notifications to admins through Microsoft Teams and/or email.
Yes, Cayosoft Guardian will restore hard-deleted or permanently deleted AD objects. Since the objects are no longer present in Active Directory or Entra ID, Cayosoft Guardian will recreate the object using the details stored in its database.
Note: While Guardian recreates deleted objects, some links to those objects are not restored and may need to be manually assigned. For additional information or questions about how Cayosoft Guardian recovers deleted AD objects, reach out to us.
Unlike traditional Active Directory (AD) backup software, like bare-metal backups, system state backups, full backups, or incremental backups, Cayosoft Guardian continuously backs up your Active Directory and Entra ID in real time, allowing you to quickly and easily revert changes to any point in time. This not only reduces storage space required but eliminates the risk of reintroduction of ransomware, reinfection, and additional corruption that can occur with some legacy Windows server backup tools.
Cayosoft Guardian does not recover on-premises domain controllers, but Cayosoft Guardian Forest Recovery does. Learn more about Cayosoft Guardian Forest Recovery, including all the features of Cayosoft Guardian plus domain controller recovery and forest recovery.
Resources for Active Directory Recovery and Monitoring
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Unified, Instant AD Recovery and Change Monitoring Solutions
Cayosoft Guardian is the only solution to combine AD monitoring and backup across Microsoft environments. With Cayosoft Guardian, IT admins can quickly see, understand, and rollback mistakes or malicious changes to Active Directory objects, attributes, and settings.
Product Review
Review: Hybrid and Entra ID Recovery and Protection Solution
Microsoft MVP Nuno Mota reviewed Cayosoft Guardian, a comprehensive recovery solution for on-premises Active Directory (AD), Entra ID, and hybrid AD. After analysis, Moto gave Cayosoft Guardian a 4.6/5 rating, giving it a gold award with TechGenix.com.
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