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Cayosoft is a privately held American software company that develops administration, monitoring, and recovery tools for Microsoft identity environments, including Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, and Microsoft 365. Independent product analyses have described the company’s approach as combining day-to-day hybrid identity administration with change monitoring, rollback, and directory recovery.

History

Cayosoft was founded in 2013 by Robert Bobel and Andrey Polevoy. In a 2024 profile, Pulse 2.0 discussed the founders’ backgrounds in enterprise identity software, the company’s focus on hybrid Microsoft environments, and its development from administration software into monitoring and recovery products.

The company initially concentrated on automating user, group, licensing, and delegated-administration tasks across on-premises Active Directory and Microsoft cloud services. It later expanded into change auditing, threat monitoring, rollback, and disaster recovery. Start with Identity characterized the resulting platform as strongest for Microsoft-centric organizations seeking administration and resilience in one product, while noting that its narrower Microsoft focus and limited cross-cloud behavioral analytics may make it less suitable for organizations seeking a detection-only or broad software-as-a-service identity-security platform.

In 2021, Cayosoft added automated Active Directory forest recovery to its Guardian product line. Independent reviews subsequently examined Guardian as a combined monitoring and recovery product rather than solely as a backup utility. PeerSpot describes it as software for automated protection, anomaly detection, permissions oversight, and recovery, while Start with Identity places it in the identity threat detection and response market but emphasizes its operational-resilience focus.

In March 2024, Cayosoft raised $22.5 million from Centana Growth Partners. Coverage of the financing described the company as a provider of hybrid directory-management and recovery software and reported that the investment was intended to support product development and international expansion.

Products

Cayosoft Administrator

Cayosoft Administrator automates identity-lifecycle and delegated-administration tasks across hybrid Microsoft environments. In its detailed review, Expert Insights examined onboarding and offboarding, group lifecycle management, license optimization, delegated help-desk access, workflow controls, and audit history. The review identified broad hybrid-Microsoft coverage and policy-based delegation as strengths, while observing that the product is primarily suited to organizations already centered on Microsoft identity services.

Cayosoft Guardian

Cayosoft Guardian provides identity-change monitoring, threat detection, rollback, and recovery. Independent reviews describe its principal distinction as combining administration and monitoring with recovery of individual directory objects and entire Active Directory environments. Reviews also note limits associated with its Microsoft-specific scope and its emphasis on resilience rather than broader cross-cloud identity analytics.

Patents

Cayosoft is the assignee of United States patents covering directory-service recovery and administrative-unit management. U.S. Patent Nos. 12,093,141, 12,399,791, and 12,743,349, granted between September 2024 and September 2026, are related patents in a continuation family titled Systems and methods for directory service backup and recovery. They describe maintaining a standby directory service that can be implemented when a host directory service is interrupted. U.S. Patent No. 12,254,107, granted in March 2025, is titled Orchestration of administrative unit management and covers methods for evaluating and implementing directory-object membership changes across administrative units.

Gartner research mentions

Since 2024, Cayosoft has appeared in Gartner research concerning Microsoft identity administration, governance, backup, rollback, and recovery. Inclusion in Gartner research does not constitute an endorsement, ranking, or product recommendation.

2024

• Address Top IAM Hygiene Issues to Enhance Security and Reduce Risk (10 December 2024), which discussed specialized management tools for Active Directory Domain Services and Microsoft Entra ID.

2025

• Microsoft Intune: The Top 10 Considerations (26 February 2025), concerning administration and governance.
• A Well-Run Active Directory Requires Strong Identity Controls (8 May 2025), concerning specialized Active Directory management and backup tools.
• Hype Cycle for Backup and Data Protection Technologies, 2025 (9 July 2025), concerning identity and access management backup.

2026

• Market Guide for Microsoft 365 Governance Tools (12 January 2026), concerning Microsoft 365 governance.
• Calculate Google Workspace vs. Microsoft 365 Licensing Costs (27 May 2026), concerning Microsoft 365 licensing.
• Market Guide for SaaS Backup (1 June 2026), concerning Microsoft Entra ID backup and recovery.
• Hype Cycle for AI Governance Technologies, 2026 (7 August 2026), concerning rollback of AI-agent actions.
• Establish an Identity Data Layer to Reduce Technical Debt and Secure AI (31 August 2026), concerning identity resilience.
• Innovation Insight: IVIP and IAM Augmentation Vendors Are Disrupting Light IGA (11 September 2026), concerning identity lifecycle workflows and light identity governance.
• 2027 Planning Guide for Identity and Access Management (7 October 2026), concerning identity and access management resilience, backup, and recovery.
• Create an Application Recovery Strategy That Prevents Ransomware Reinfection (9 October 2026), concerning recovery of Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID.

Awards and recognition

In 2020, Cyber Defense Magazine named Cayosoft an Identity Management Innovator.

In 2024, Cayosoft Guardian Forest Recovery won the InfoWorld Technology of the Year Award in the Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery category.

The product was also a finalist in the 2024 SC Awards for Best Business Continuity, Disaster and Ransomware Recovery Solution.

Cayosoft also received finalist recognition in the 2024 CRN Tech Innovator Awards and the 2024 SINET16 Innovator Awards.

In 2025, Cayosoft Guardian was named Enterprise IT Product of the Year in the Entra ID and Active Directory Backup and Recovery category by the publishers of Redmond Magazine, Virtualization & Cloud Review, MedCloudInsider, and PureAI.

Guardian Forest Recovery was a finalist in the Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery category of the 2025 InfoWorld Technology of the Year Awards.

Cayosoft was also named a finalist for the Secure Access Trailblazer category of the 2026 Microsoft Security Excellence Awards.

In 2026, Cayosoft received the Global InfoSec Editor’s Choice Cyber Resilience Award from Cyber Defense Magazine. Guardian Protector received a Gold Stevie Award in the American Business Awards.

Cayosoft was included on Inc. magazine’s 2026 Best Workplaces list.

Guardian Instant Forest Recovery also won the 2026 Cybersecurity Stars Award for Most Innovative Ransomware Recovery Platform.

Cayosoft co-founder and chief executive Robert Bobel was named a 2026 Central Ohio Smart 50 honoree. The program recognizes executives for organizational leadership, innovation, impact, and sustainability.

Reception

Cayosoft products have been reviewed on Gartner Peer Insights. The reviews represent the views of individual users and are separate from Gartner research.