Cayosoft Inc. is a global independent software vendor focused on management, monitoring, and recovery for Microsoft environments. Its portfolio is built for organizations running on-premises, hybrid, and cloud deployments, with a strong emphasis on Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft 365, Exchange, Teams, Intune, SharePoint, and OneDrive.
The company centers its value on operational resilience for hybrid Microsoft identity. Cayosoft Inc. helps customers automate administration, control privileged access, detect risky changes, recover from outages, and reduce the complexity that comes with moving from traditional AD to hybrid and cloud operating models. Its portfolio spans day-to-day administration, real-time change visibility, rollback, forest-level disaster recovery, SaaS delivery, and migration services.
Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations
Cayosoft Inc. delivers Microsoft-focused identity and operations capabilities that combine administration, governance, monitoring, and recovery. Its offerings support policy-driven provisioning and deprovisioning, least-privilege delegation, workflow automation, self-service, reporting, and license management across hybrid Microsoft estates.
For security and continuity teams, Cayosoft Inc. adds continuous change monitoring, threat detection, audit-ready visibility, rollback, and disaster recovery orchestration. The company supports both software and SaaS deployment models and extends recovery workflows into cloud infrastructure, including Microsoft Azure and AWS, for backup storage and recovery-site automation.
Products and Services
- Cayosoft Administrator: Hybrid Microsoft administration platform for Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft 365, Exchange, Teams, and Intune, with automation, delegation, provisioning, self-service, reporting, and policy control.
- Cayosoft Guardian Audit & Restore: Hybrid identity monitoring and recovery offering that provides real-time change visibility, audit history, and instant rollback across Active Directory, Entra ID, Microsoft 365, and related Microsoft services.
- Cayosoft Guardian Instant Forest Recovery: Active Directory disaster recovery offering that maintains a clean standby forest for rapid cutover and automates full forest recovery workflows.
- Cayosoft Guardian Protector: Free, agentless monitoring and threat detection tier for Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, and key Microsoft 365 services.
- Management & Protection Suite: Bundled offering that combines Cayosoft Administrator and Cayosoft Guardian Audit & Restore for unified management, monitoring, and protection of Microsoft environments.
- Cayosoft Guardian SaaS: SaaS deployment of the Cayosoft Guardian platform that delivers continuous hybrid change monitoring, one-click rollback, and managed resilience capabilities without customer-managed infrastructure.
- Cayosoft Microsoft Migration Services: Professional services offering for end-to-end migrations across Active Directory, Microsoft 365, Exchange, SharePoint, Teams, and related identity infrastructure.
Target Customers
Cayosoft Inc. targets IT administrators, identity engineers, security teams, and infrastructure leaders responsible for Microsoft-centric environments. Its strongest fit is organizations managing hybrid estates that span on-premises Active Directory and Microsoft cloud services, especially where manual scripts, fragmented tools, or compliance demands create operational risk.
The company serves organizations from SMB to mid-enterprise and has visible relevance in federal, healthcare, and education environments. Cayosoft Inc. also supports channel-driven delivery through licensing and partner programs for managed service providers, cloud service providers, and system integrators.
Cloud Integrations and Marketplace
- Azure Marketplace: Cayosoft Administrator is listed in Azure Marketplace, and Cayosoft Guardian supports Azure-based recovery-site deployment and Azure storage workflows for forest recovery.
- AWS: Cayosoft Guardian supports automated recovery-site deployment on AWS and backup workflows that use Amazon S3 storage.
Key People
- Robert Bobel: Founder & CEO
- Andrei Polevoi: Founder & CTO
- Dmitry Sotnikov: Chief Product Officer
- Jeremy Manly: Chief Financial Officer
- Joe Dillon: Chief Revenue Officer
- Larry Kraft: SVP, Global Partnerships
- Jarrod Roark: SVP of Technical Services
- Jo Ann Scavina: SVP of Human Resources
- Jennifer LuPiba: VP of Marketing
- Mandy Myers: VP of Customer Success
Key Facts
- Headquarters: Westerville, Ohio, USA
- Employees: 80+
- Annual Revenue: $10M-$12M
- Parent Company: None
- Subsidiaries: Petri Media LLC; Cayosoft subsidiary lab in Yerevan, Armenia
- Publicly Listed: Privately held
Analyst Recognitions
- Gartner: 2026 Gartner Market Guide for Microsoft 365 Governance Tools – Representative Vendor. 2025 Gartner Enhance Cybersecurity and Resiliency by Extending the Discipline of ITDR – Representative Vendor for ITDR, Rollback and Recovery. 2025 Gartner Reduce Your IAM Attack Surface Using Visibility, Observability, and Remediation – Representative Vendor for Resilience Capabilities. 2025 Gartner Hype Cycle for Backup and Data Protection Technologies – Representative Vendor for IAM Backup. 2025 Gartner A Well-Run Active Directory Requires Strong Identity Controls – Representative Vendor for Specialized AD Management and AD Backup Tools. 2025 Gartner Microsoft Intune: The Top 10 Considerations – Representative Vendor for Administration and Governance. 2024 Gartner Address Top IAM Hygiene Issues to Enhance Security and Reduce Risk – Representative Vendor for Specialized Management Tools for Active Directory and Entra ID.
