Installing Gold Finger in under 2-Minutes

Folks,

Gold Finger is built for use by IT admins, Security Analysts, IT Managers, IT Executives and corporate employees who might have a need to generate Active Directory based IT security and access reports for identity and access management.

We thus designed it as a simple client-side Windows executable that can be downloaded, and installed on any domain-joined machine in under 2 mintues, and without requiring any domain administrative credentials.

Here's a quick overview of how you can instantly install the Gold Finger -

1. Download the Gold Finger installation package from our website.


2. Save the installation package in any folder on your local hard-drive.


3. Extract the installer (MSI) by unzipping the installation package.


4. Double-click the Gold Finger MSI to start installation.

5. The Gold Finger setup screen should be visible.

6. Click Next. Then the Setup Wizard screen should be visible.

7. Click Next. Then the License Agreement screen should appear. Take a moment to review the license.

8. Select I Agree, then Click Next. Then the Customer Information screen should be visible.

9. Enter your name and your organization's name and click Next. Then the Installation Folder screen should appear.

10. Click Next. You should then see the Confirm Installation screen.

11. Click Next. You should then momentarily see the Installing Gold Finger screen.

12. Upon successful completion, you will have installed Gold Finger.

13. Click Close.

That's it!

To launch Gold Finger, begin by clicking the Start Menu, then navigate to Programs, the locate the Paramount Defenses folder, and finally click on the Gold Finger link.

In the next few posts, we'll cover how to use Gold Finger to generate security and access reports and to use its inbuilt search capabilities.

Best wishes,
- PD Staff

An Overview of the Gold Finger

Gold Finger is an innovative IT security and access analysis and reporting solution for Microsoft Windows Server based IT infrasructures powered by Active Directory.

Architected by former Microsoft Program Manager for Active Directory Security, it was designed to help organizations accurately determine who is delegated what administrative authority (the proverbial "keys to the kingdom") for IT management in their Active Directory deployments.

It delivers on a paramount security need, which is the need to know who is delegated what powerful administrative authority, because a single unauthorized delegated access grant is all that someone needs to completely compromise organizational security.

Its powerful, Microsoft-endorsed, patent-pending access assessment capabilities let organizations instantly and accurately find out who is delegated what administrative tasks in their Active Directory, such as revealing who all can reset the CEO's account's password today.

It also lets organizations fulfill all their essential Active Directory based security reporting needs for identity and access management.

At the touch of a button, it can instantly generate 100s of accurate IT security and access reports that are essential for assessing and locking down access, analyzing and maintaining security, performing internal security audits and demonstrating regulatory compliance.

In posts to follow, we will share helpful tips and insight on its powerful capabilities and features and on how organizations can benefit from it to fulfill all their security and access reporting needs.

Thank you and best wishes,

PD Staff

Introducing the Gold Finger Blog

Hi Folks,

I'm Sanjay, CEO of Paramount Defenses (PD), and formerly Program Manager for Active Directory Security on the Windows Server Dev Team at Microsoft.

At PD, a valued Microsoft security partner, we develop innovative security solutions that solve mission-critical yet very difficult security problems.

Our first solution, the Gold Finger, powered by innovative patent-pending technology, is the world's first & only accurate access assessment solution for Microsoft Active Directory.

It helps organizations solve the paramount security problem of determining who has what administrative (God-like) privileges within the organization.

It is my privilege to commission this blog, via which we intend to share insights that could help IT personnel worldwide fulfil their Active Directory related IT security and access reporting, audit and compliance needs, trustworthily.

Over the next few weeks, our specialist team will share valuable and helpful information via this blog, and you can expect to gain helpful, objective and insightful information on the paramount aspect of IT security.

I wish you all the best.

Kind Regards,
Sanjay Tandon


Chief Executive Officer,
Paramount Defenses Inc