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    Automate Policy & Audit Controls

    Optimize M365 Licenses

    Monitor

    Track Every AD Change Automatically

    Automate Identity Threat Detection for AD and Entra ID

    Stop Privilege Escalation

    Secure, Monitor, and Rollback Intune Changes

    Recover

    Recover Clean AD in Minutes

    Plan for Zero-Downtime Recovery

    Control Identity Risk Proactively

    Rollback and Granular Recovery

    Featured Industries

    Cayosoft serves organizations across SMB to mid-enterprise industries where identity resilience, operational continuity, and hybrid Microsoft security matter most. Featured industries represent just a sample of the organizations relying on Cayosoft.

    industry-federal
    Federal
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    This is the only solution for Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID continuous change monitoring, immediate object and attribute recovery, partition recovery, domain controller recovery, and automated, immediate full forest recovery.

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    Cayosoft Administrator

    Control hybrid identity with policy-driven 
automation, secure delegation, and no scripts 
or standing privilege.

    Cayosoft Guardian Platform

    Unified identity resilience platform to monitor and recover across the entire Microsoft hybrid identity stack.

    Instant Forest Recovery
    Recover AD forests in minutes with a continuously validated, clean standby environment.
    Audit & Restore

    Track every identity change and roll back unwanted or malicious modifications.

    Protector

    ALWAYS FREE: Continuously detect identity threats and stop privilege abuse in real time.

  • Use Cases
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    Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR)

    Identity Governance and Administration (IGA)
    Microsoft Intune
    Who We Serve
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    Federal
    industry-medical
    Healthcare
    industry-education
    Education
    • Use Cases
    • Manage

      Automate Group Membership at Scale

      Automate Onboarding from Day One

      Automate Policy & Audit Controls

      Optimize M365 Licenses

      Monitor

      Track Every AD Change Automatically

      Automate Identity Threat Detection for AD and Entra ID

      Stop Privilege Escalation

      Secure, Monitor, and Rollback Intune Changes

      Recover

      Recover Clean AD in Minutes

      Plan for Zero-Downtime Recovery

      Control Identity Risk Proactively

      Rollback and Granular Recovery

    • Industries
    • Featured Industries

      Cayosoft serves organizations across SMB to mid-enterprise industries where identity resilience, operational continuity, and hybrid Microsoft security matter most. Featured industries represent just a sample of the organizations relying on Cayosoft.

      industry-federal
      Federal
      industry-medical
      Healthcare
      industry-education
      Education
      This is the only solution for Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID continuous change monitoring, immediate object and attribute recovery, partition recovery, domain controller recovery, and automated, immediate full forest recovery.

      text:

      • hello
      • hello
      • hello
    Manage

    Automate Group Membership at Scale

    Automate Onboarding from Day One

    Automate Policy & Audit Controls

    Optimize M365 Licenses

    Monitor

    Track Every AD Change Automatically

    Automate Identity Threat Detection for AD and Entra ID

    Stop Privilege Escalation

    Secure, Monitor, and Rollback Intune Changes

    Recover

    Recover Clean AD in Minutes

    Plan for Zero-Downtime Recovery

    Control Identity Risk Proactively

    Rollback and Granular Recovery

    Featured Industries

    Cayosoft serves organizations across SMB to mid-enterprise industries where identity resilience, operational continuity, and hybrid Microsoft security matter most. Featured industries represent just a sample of the organizations relying on Cayosoft.

    industry-federal
    Federal
    industry-medical
    Healthcare
    industry-education
    Education
    This is the only solution for Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID continuous change monitoring, immediate object and attribute recovery, partition recovery, domain controller recovery, and automated, immediate full forest recovery.

    text:

    • hello
    • hello
    • hello
  • Why Cayosoft
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    Independent validation of Cayosoft’s leadership 
in hybrid identity management, security, and recovery 
across the Microsoft ecosystem.

    Customer Stories

    See how enterprises and government organizations 
achieve identity resilience, reduce risk, and recover 
faster with Cayosoft.

    The Auto Club Group (AAA)

    Citrus Health

    State’s IT Department
    Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
    Competitor Replacement

    Why organizations replace legacy tools with 
Cayosoft for stronger security, faster recovery, 
and unified hybrid identity control.

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    Rubrik
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Threat Attack Tactic: Privilege Escalation

Regular AD object with Migrate SID history permission

Active Directory

Attackers can migrate high-privilege SIDs into their own accounts via a regular AD object with Migrate SID history permission, gaining elevated access and privileges.

Rejected PIM role membership request from Microsoft Entra user

Active Directory

Unauthorized privilege escalation attempts via rejected PIM role membership requests from Microsoft Entra users may indicate a compromised account, exposing attack paths for persistence and reconnaissance.

Active Directory SMB signing not enforced on domain controller

Active Directory SMB signing not enforced on domain controllers exposes SMB traffic to tampering and relay-style attacks, enabling attackers to bypass authentication and access sensitive data.

Constrained delegation with protocol transition to the krbtgt account

Constrained delegation with protocol transition to the krbtgt account enables attackers to compromise the trusted krbtgt account, impersonate users, and access network resources through Kerberos authentication mechanisms.

Conditional Access policy in Entra ID missing Continuous Access Evaluation (CAE)

Conditional Access policy in Entra ID missing Continuous Access Evaluation (CAE) exposes users to extended session duration after privilege elevation or credential compromise, enabling attackers to maintain access to sensitive resources for an extended period.

Insecure ACLs on Service Connection Points in Active Directory

Insecure ACLs on Service Connection Points in Active Directory expose sensitive data and enable man-in-the-middle attacks through unauthorized attribute modifications.

Entra privileged account password reset

Unauthorized Entra ID account password resets can indicate exposure to attack paths, persistence, and reconnaissance opportunities.

Microsoft Intune Multi Admin Approval access policies not configured

Intune tenant without Multi Admin Approval access policies exposes sensitive actions to unauthorized administrators, enabling attackers to perform malicious activities with ease.

Suspicious Global Administrator sign-in in Entra ID

A sign-in from a Global Administrator account in Entra ID indicates potential credential compromise or malicious reconnaissance, warranting immediate investigation.

Microsoft Entra Organizational Messages Writer and Approver roles assigned to the same user or group

A user with both Entra ID organizational message writer and approver roles can create and approve messages without oversight, exposing an attack path due to compromised dual control.

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