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Cayosoft GuardianAudit & Restore

Catch threats early, roll back risky changes instantly, and stay audit-ready across AD and Entra ID—all from one secure console.
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Cayosoft Guardian Audit & Restore™

Protect What Matters Most

Your Hybrid Active Directory is your organization’s backbone. Cayosoft Guardian Audit & Restore secures hybrid environments with real-time detection and unified monitoring.

Threats Detected & Reversed

Cayosoft Guardian Audit & Restore spots and reverses malicious changes across hybrid AD, Entra ID, and Microsoft 365—before attackers can strike.

Why Cayosoft Guardian Audit & Restore

In hybrid environments, every second counts. Cayosoft gives you real-time visibility into identity changes, instant rollback to reverse risky actions, and complete control over Active Directory, Entra ID, Microsoft 365 and Intune.

Features & Benefits

  • Recover Instantly

  • Instant AD Object and Attribute Recovery

    Instant object and attribute recovery allows administrators to rapidly recover from mistakes or malicious changes. Using granular change history, quickly find and fix unwanted changes, including changes to group memberships, group policy objects (GPOs), account settings, Microsoft licensing, Microsoft Teams memberships, and accidental AD object deletions. Cayosoft Guardian Audit & Restore’s instant Active Directory recovery software enables you to recover fast and eliminate costly downtime caused by AD outages, without wasting time from the lengthy operations legacy file-based AD recovery tools require.

    Benefits:

    • Resolves outages fast, vastly reducing all associated costs
    • Easily identify & instantly reverse unwanted changes
    • Save lost productivity from common AD object deletions — keep operations running smoothly

  • Monitor for Changes

  • Continuous Change Monitoring and Alerting

    Continuous change monitoring and real-time alerting across Active Directory, Azure AD, Office 365, including other key Microsoft systems and cloud, allows administrators to quickly identify malicious changes or mistakes, like if an object gets accidentally deleted, and instantly recover from them. With Cayosoft Guardian Audit & Restore’s Active Directory (AD) auditing and monitoring software, receive notifications and track changes in real time, enabling you to stop hackers before they have a chance to act.

    Benefits:

    • Stop breaches, malicious changes, & mistakes that ultimately cause expensive outages or fines
    • Be proactive: alert administrators about important changes before they escalate into problems
    • Ensures security, compliance, & business continuity goals are met & costly outages are avoided

  • Track Hybrid Changes

  • Unified Change History

    Continuous and unified change history records up-to-the-minute changes across integrated Microsoft services, including on-premises Active Directory, hybrid Active Directory, Azure AD, Office 365, and other key Microsoft systems and cloud-based applications. Cayosoft Guardian Audit & Restore’s continuous, unified change history allows you to view and track changes made in and between Microsoft systems, an unachievable tasks when using event logs or legacy auditing tools. Built-in or custom queries show “who, what, when, and where” details needed to satisfy recovery, security, and compliance objectives.

    Benefits:

    • Complete view: see changes made across your entire hybrid Microsoft environment
    • Improve security & protect your critical Microsoft systems from unwanted changes
    • Ensure you meet compliance, legal, & regulatory goals

  • Detect Threats

  • Threat Detection and Response Guidance

    Like antivirus for Microsoft identities, Cayosoft Guardian Audit & Restore automatically identifies and reverses malicious changes made to your entire Active Directory (AD) environment, including hybrid AD, Azure AD, and other systems, before attackers can use them for exploit. With Cayosoft Guardian Audit & Restore’s threat detection and automatic response you can proactively monitor for known attack vectors, allowing you to uncover and resolve system misconfigurations, indicators of exposure (IOE), and indicators of compromise (IOC).

    Benefits:

    • Thwart AD attacks — take corrective actions before an attack takes place
    • Trigger automated responses to stop or slow down attacks
    • 360⁰ protection: on-premise AD, Azure AD, & Office 365 — one product, one screen

  • Enrich SIEM Tools

  • Event Log and Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Enrichment

    Threat actors often target event logs first during an attack so they can blind SIEM tools, like Microsoft Sentinel, and carry out their activities, costing businesses millions of dollars each year. Cayosoft Guardian Audit & Restore’s continuous change history records changes even when security logs or SIEM tools are compromised, including events that bypass event logs. Cayosoft Guardian Audit & Restore collects event logs from AD, Azure AD, Office 365, and more, to enhance the detail of changes that were made.

    Benefits:

    • Checks & balances: Cayosoft works even if an attacker compromises native logs
    • Single product for hybrid Microsoft environments — reduce multi-console drain
    • Reduce response & resolution times — real-time alerts get you ahead of the curve

  • Enhance Backup Solutions

  • Traditional Backup and Restore Solution Enhancement

    Traditional backup solutions are not able to cope with instant recovery of user accounts and groups that provide access. Cayosoft Guardian Audit & Restore improves traditional backup solutions by adding instant Active Directory recovery for objects and attributes, like user identities and group access, that are the first step to recovery. Working alongside your traditional backup solution, Cayosoft Guardian Audit & Restore allows you to bring back user identities and their access instantly, greatly reducing the recovery process and recovery times compared to other recovery tools and native methods.

    Benefits:

    • Perfect complement to your existing backup & recovery strategy
    • Ensure a clean restoration — eliminate chances of reintroducing compromised servers
    • Reduce time: At least 3X faster than traditional tools & solutions

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Instant AD Object and Attribute Recovery

Instant object and attribute recovery allows administrators to rapidly recover from mistakes or malicious changes. Using granular change history, quickly find and fix unwanted changes, including changes to group memberships, group policy objects (GPOs), account settings, Microsoft licensing, Microsoft Teams memberships, and accidental AD object deletions. Cayosoft Guardian Audit & Restore’s instant Active Directory recovery software enables you to recover fast and eliminate costly downtime caused by AD outages, without wasting time from the lengthy operations legacy file-based AD recovery tools require.

Benefits:

  • Resolves outages fast, vastly reducing all associated costs
  • Easily identify & instantly reverse unwanted changes
  • Save lost productivity from common AD object deletions — keep operations running smoothly

Continuous Change Monitoring and Alerting

Continuous change monitoring and real-time alerting across Active Directory, Azure AD, Office 365, including other key Microsoft systems and cloud, allows administrators to quickly identify malicious changes or mistakes, like if an object gets accidentally deleted, and instantly recover from them. With Cayosoft Guardian Audit & Restore’s Active Directory (AD) auditing and monitoring software, receive notifications and track changes in real time, enabling you to stop hackers before they have a chance to act.

Benefits:

  • Stop breaches, malicious changes, & mistakes that ultimately cause expensive outages or fines
  • Be proactive: alert administrators about important changes before they escalate into problems
  • Ensures security, compliance, & business continuity goals are met & costly outages are avoided

Unified Change History

Continuous and unified change history records up-to-the-minute changes across integrated Microsoft services, including on-premises Active Directory, hybrid Active Directory, Azure AD, Office 365, and other key Microsoft systems and cloud-based applications. Cayosoft Guardian Audit & Restore’s continuous, unified change history allows you to view and track changes made in and between Microsoft systems, an unachievable tasks when using event logs or legacy auditing tools. Built-in or custom queries show “who, what, when, and where” details needed to satisfy recovery, security, and compliance objectives.

Benefits:

  • Complete view: see changes made across your entire hybrid Microsoft environment
  • Improve security & protect your critical Microsoft systems from unwanted changes
  • Ensure you meet compliance, legal, & regulatory goals

Threat Detection and Response Guidance

Like antivirus for Microsoft identities, Cayosoft Guardian Audit & Restore automatically identifies and reverses malicious changes made to your entire Active Directory (AD) environment, including hybrid AD, Azure AD, and other systems, before attackers can use them for exploit. With Cayosoft Guardian Audit & Restore’s threat detection and automatic response you can proactively monitor for known attack vectors, allowing you to uncover and resolve system misconfigurations, indicators of exposure (IOE), and indicators of compromise (IOC).

Benefits:

  • Thwart AD attacks — take corrective actions before an attack takes place
  • Trigger automated responses to stop or slow down attacks
  • 360⁰ protection: on-premise AD, Azure AD, & Office 365 — one product, one screen

Event Log and Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Enrichment

Threat actors often target event logs first during an attack so they can blind SIEM tools, like Microsoft Sentinel, and carry out their activities, costing businesses millions of dollars each year. Cayosoft Guardian Audit & Restore’s continuous change history records changes even when security logs or SIEM tools are compromised, including events that bypass event logs. Cayosoft Guardian Audit & Restore collects event logs from AD, Azure AD, Office 365, and more, to enhance the detail of changes that were made.

Benefits:

  • Checks & balances: Cayosoft works even if an attacker compromises native logs
  • Single product for hybrid Microsoft environments — reduce multi-console drain
  • Reduce response & resolution times — real-time alerts get you ahead of the curve

Traditional Backup and Restore Solution Enhancement

Traditional backup solutions are not able to cope with instant recovery of user accounts and groups that provide access. Cayosoft Guardian Audit & Restore improves traditional backup solutions by adding instant Active Directory recovery for objects and attributes, like user identities and group access, that are the first step to recovery. Working alongside your traditional backup solution, Cayosoft Guardian Audit & Restore allows you to bring back user identities and their access instantly, greatly reducing the recovery process and recovery times compared to other recovery tools and native methods.

Benefits:

  • Perfect complement to your existing backup & recovery strategy
  • Ensure a clean restoration — eliminate chances of reintroducing compromised servers
  • Reduce time: At least 3X faster than traditional tools & solutions

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Cayosoft Guardian Audit & Restore™ FAQ

GENERAL OVERVIEW

Cayosoft is the leader in hybrid Microsoft identity management, trusted by enterprises worldwide. We deliver automation, security, and recovery for AD, Entra ID, and Microsoft 365—all from a single platform. With 99% customer retention, 100% hybrid focus, and 100% customer satisfaction, customers don’t just trust Cayosoft—they love us.

Cayosoft Guardian Audit & Restore is a real-time hybrid identity protection platform purpose-built for Active Directory (AD, Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD), Intune, and Teams. It delivers continuous monitoring, change auditing, and one-click rollback to reverse unauthorized changes before they become security incidents or compliance failures.
Cayosoft Guardian Audit & Restore is ideal for:
  • Identity and Access Management (IAM) teams
  • Security Operations Centers (SOCs)
  • Compliance and audit professionals
  • Hybrid identity architects and enterprise AD admins.
Capabilities and Functionality

Cayosoft Guardian Audit & Restore tracks changes across:

  • On-prem AD and Entra ID
  • Group memberships (e.g., Domain Admins)
  • User and group attributes
  • Conditional access policies
  • Group Policy Objects (GPOs)
  • Password policies
  • Object deletions, disables, and privilege escalations

It allows admins to instantly reverse unauthorized or mistaken changes, including bulk operations, without needing to restore outdated backups or relying on event logs. You can restore individual attributes, objects, or entire groups in seconds.

Yes. Cayosoft Guardian Audit & Restore is explicitly built for hybrid Microsoft environments and supports:

  • Multi-domain, multi-forest AD
  • Multiple Entra ID tenants
  • Cross-platform views of AD, Entra ID, and Microsoft 365 (Teams, Exchange, Intune)

No. Cayosoft Guardian Audit & Restore is agentless. It reads from native APIs and change logs to monitor identity systems securely and efficiently.

Security and Threat Detection

It continuously inspects your environment for:

  • Indicators of Exposure (IOEs): e.g., stale accounts, overprivileged users
  • Indicators of Compromise (IOCs): e.g., unauthorized privilege changes
  • Indicators of Attack (IOAs): e.g., lateral movement, suspicious deletes.

Yes. Cayosoft Guardian Audit & Restore integrates with:

  • Email and syslog for immediate alerting
  • SIEM and SOAR platforms like Splunk, Sentinel, or QRadar
  • Custom alert thresholds (e.g., domain admin changes, mass disables)

Absolutely. Cayosoft Guardian Audit & Restore helps enforce Zero Trust by:

  • Preventing standing admin privileges
  • Alerting on privilege escalations
  • Enabling least-privilege enforcement via integrated RBAC policies.
Compliance and Audit Readiness

Yes. Cayosoft Guardian Audit & Restore provides:

  • Immutable, centralized audit trails
  • Customizable reports by object, admin, time, or change type
  • Scheduled report delivery for internal or external auditors
  • Support for HIPAA, SOX, PCI-DSS, NIST, and GDPR compliance.

Yes. Cayosoft Guardian Audit & Restore monitors all identity changes—even those made through other tools, PowerShell, or native consoles—ensuring complete visibility and accountability.

Deployment and Operations
  • Installs on a Windows Server VM or physical box
  • Agentless—no software installed on domain controllers
  • Low system impact by using native APIs
  • Supports high availability configurations.

Most customers deploy and start monitoring within hours. There’s no need for scripting or domain controller changes, and Cayosoft provides onboarding assistance if needed.

Yes. Cayosoft Guardian Audit & Restore is designed to support:

  • 1M+ users
  • Dozens of domains or forests
  • Multiple Entra ID tenants
  • Multi-region, multi-tenant hybrid infrastructures.
How It Integrates

Yes. It complements:

  • SIEM solutions (e.g., Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk, QRadar)
  • SOAR platforms (e.g., Cortex XSOAR)
  • Endpoint detection tools (e.g., CrowdStrike, Microsoft Defender)

Cayosoft Guardian Audit & Restore fills the gap between endpoint security and identity layer protection.

Yes. Cayosoft Guardian Audit & Restore is part of the Cayosoft Enterprise suite. When paired with Cayosoft Administrator and Cayosoft Guardian Instant Forest Recovery, you get a complete lifecycle end-to-end management tool for Microsoft environments.

Why Cayosoft Guardian Audit & Restore Over Other Tools?
FeatureCayosoft Guardian Audit & RestoreLegacy/SIEM/EDR Tools
Hybrid AD + Entra ID CoverageFull native supportPartial or none
Real-Time Change MonitoringSecond-level trackingEvent log dependent
One-Click RollbackYesManual recovery only
Agentless ArchitectureYesOften agent-based
SIEM/SOAR IntegrationBuilt-inRequires customization
Immutable, Auditable LoggingYesMay need external setup
Compliance ReportingTemplates + deliveryManual export required
Designed for Hybrid Identity SecurityPurpose-builtInfrastructure/endpoint-focused

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