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Cayosoft Delivers Superior Results for Hybrid IT Management and Recovery
Why Teams Replace Semperis with Cayosoft
US State’s IT Department Replaces Semperis with Cayosoft After Active Directory Recovery Failure
“Cayosoft was easier to install, faster to recover, and required no agents. The confidence we now have in our AD recovery plan is unmatched.”
— Procurement Lead, U.S. State IT Department
Cayosoft vs. Semperis
| Feature / Capability | Cayosoft | Semperis |
|---|---|---|
| Hybrid Identity Governance Management |
Single console to manage on-premises AD, Azure AD, Office 365, Intune & Teams regardless of seeking roles, rules, automation, change monitoring, or AD recovery:
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No administration product that allows day-to-day administrators to change identities with roles and rules protection for Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) |
| AD Forest Recovery | Instant AD forest recovery: patented ability to recover your AD within minutes of a mistake, attack, or disaster! | Does not have Cayosoft’s patented Instant Forest Recovery process |
| Efficiency |
Cayosoft is built for enterprises that expect their hybrid environments to grow. Cayosoft ensures:
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Semperis offers separate products for recovery:
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| POCs In Production Versus Lab Environments |
Cayosoft has no fear of operating in live production environments
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Deeper Look Into the Technology
True Hybrid Administration
For complete hybrid administration across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid Microsoft environments, native Microsoft tools force up to 20+ separate consoles and simply fall short. Cayosoft Administrator™ enables you to operate your Microsoft services more efficiently because of a unified, single console, solution across on-premises AD, Azure/Entra ID AD, Office 365, and Teams.
Benefits:
- Shrink the time required to manage your Microsoft services
- Not ready for cloud yet? Future-proof with a single solution covering hybrid environments
- Eliminate licensing a product per Microsoft service; Cayosoft = 1 product, 1 console
Continuous Change Monitoring and Alerting
Cayosoft Guardian™ provides continuous change monitoring and instant rollback of changes before they become a problem. It provides real-time alerting across Active Directory, Azure AD, Office 365, Intune, and Teams, enabling administrators to quickly identify malicious changes or mistakes.
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
Instant AD Forest Recovery
Benefits:
- Require less admin time & remove human errors, when/if forest recovery is needed
- Automate forest recovery & resume operations 10X faster than native or 3rd party recovery
- One-click forest recovery includes 35+ operations recommended by Microsoft
Cayosoft vs. Semperis
Frequently Asked Questions
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A: Yes. Many organizations have moved to Cayosoft Guardian Forest Recovery after experiencing slow or failed recoveries with other tools. Cayosoft uses patented instant forest recovery technology to restore an entire Active Directory forest in minutes, not hours or days, even under ransomware conditions. Customers report cutting recovery times by 90% or more while simplifying operations.
A: Cayosoft was explicitly built for hybrid identity environments. It simultaneously protects and recovers on-premises AD, Entra ID (Azure AD), and Microsoft 365 services, such as Exchange Online and Teams. This unified approach means you don’t need separate tools or manual processes to recover both cloud and on-premises identities simultaneously.
A: Cayosoft natively supports multi-domain and multi-forest recovery with automated orchestration. State and government agencies with 25+ domains have successfully used Cayosoft to recover complex environments quickly and without custom scripting or staging hardware.
A: Yes. Cayosoft is the only patented instant forest recovery platform. It maintains a continuously tested, isolated standby environment that can be activated in under an hour, ensuring minimal downtime for critical systems and services.
A: Cayosoft uses immutable, ransomware-proof backups stored in Azure or AWS. Every backup undergoes daily integrity checks and malware scans, ensuring you restore a clean environment every time, not a compromised system state.
A: Cayosoft integrates directly with SIEM and SOAR platforms to share real-time alerts and enable automated response workflows. This provides your security operations team with deeper visibility into identity-layer events and reduces the time to contain threats.
A: Cayosoft is agentless and deploys in hours. It doesn’t require agents on every domain controller or complex PowerShell scripts. This reduces attack surface, simplifies maintenance, and shortens time to value.
A: Yes. Customers often see a 30–60% lower total cost of ownership after replacing Semperis with Cayosoft. By consolidating multiple recovery and monitoring tools into a single platform, you reduce licensing costs, simplify management, and eliminate the need for additional staff or contractors.
A: Cayosoft includes audit-ready reporting and immutable logs across AD, Entra ID, and Microsoft 365. It supports regulatory frameworks like HIPAA, SOX, and NIST by providing detailed change histories, compliance templates, and exportable reports.
A: Yes. For example, a large U.S. state’s IT department replaced Semperis after a failed recovery. With Cayosoft, they restored their AD in under an hour and now run regular recovery tests with confidence.
A: Cayosoft supports isolated virtual lab testing. You can run full recovery simulations in a sandbox environment, validate your readiness, and meet audit requirements without touching production systems.
A: Migration to Cayosoft is straightforward. It can be deployed alongside your existing solution for parallel testing. Many organizations fully transition within days, not months, and often cancel their legacy contracts early after validating Cayosoft’s performance.
Cayosoft Guardian Forest Recovery uses
to restore full AD forests—including domain controllers, DNS, SYSVOL, and FSMO roles—in
. Unlike Semperis, Cayosoft’s recovery process is
, and validated daily so that you can trust your backups without fear of reinfection.
Cayosoft is purpose-built for hybrid Microsoft identity environments, unifying on-prem AD, Microsoft Entra ID, and Microsoft 365 under a single management and recovery console. Semperis is primarily AD-focused, leaving gaps in Entra ID monitoring, license management, and group governance.
Yes. A state IT department reported that Semperis failed to recover their AD after 8+ hours of support calls, while Cayosoft restored their entire forest in under one hour and allowed dependent systems to resume operations immediately.
Cayosoft reduces Recovery Time Objective (RTO) to minutes and ensures near-zero Recovery Point Objective (RPO) by continuously capturing changes with immutable backups. This level of ITDR+R performance isn’t achievable with legacy or Semperis tools.
No. Cayosoft’s architecture is agentless and hardware‑agnostic. Recovery can target Hyper‑V, VMware, Azure, or AWS, without the need for pre-staged servers or identical hardware.
Cayosoft provides audit-ready reporting, immutable change logs, and continuous validation to meet HIPAA, SOX, NIST, and GDPR mandates. Administrators can produce compliance evidence instantly, while Semperis often requires additional tools or manual audits.
Cayosoft Guardian continuously monitors Indicators of Exposure (IOEs) and Indicators of Attack (IOAs)across AD, Entra ID, and Microsoft 365. If a risky change is detected—like a rogue Domain Admin addition—you can perform a one-click rollback at the object or attribute level in seconds.
Yes. Cayosoft integrates with platforms like Splunk, Sentinel, and Microsoft Defender to enhance identity‑layer visibility and automate response workflows—capabilities that fill gaps left by endpoint-only solutions and legacy AD recovery vendors.
Cayosoft installs in hours, not weeks, with no agents or extra sync engines required. Customers have reported replacing Semperis mid-contract and protecting their hybrid identity environment within days.
Yes. Cayosoft’s all-in-one architecture eliminates the need for multiple products (recovery, monitoring, administration) and reduces software spend by 30–60%. Semperis often requires pairing with other tools, which increases complexity and costs.