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  • Articles about Permission Analyzer have been published in several magazines and online news sites, see the article from Mark Gibbs on NetworkWorld, or one of the largest (hard-copy) magazines in The Netherlands, Computable (published in their hard-copy magazine as well), or the Editor’s review on DownloadsCenter saying Permission Analyzer will surprise you with its power and capabilities!

  • Looking for the best tool to analyze NTFS permissions? While we have full confidence in our own solution, we want to help you make an informed decision. Check out our blog post comparing the top NTFS tools on the market and exploring their role in Data Access Governance.

  • See Digital Guardian, a few months ago, in which 47 data security experts share their vision when it comes to protecting data and how the greatest risks come from within the organization.

  • Feel free to use the following white paper:


    pdf icon    White paper: Data Access Governance with NTFS Permissions - Using Perdemia's Permission Analyzer.pdf


  • Or share the press release below in your magazine or news feed:


Filter and Analyze NTFS Permissions with Perdemia’s Permission Analyzer


Perdemia has released Permission Analyzer 2.3, a Windows application that lets network administrators manage NTFS permissions. The software eliminates the mystery – and the dangers – of adding permissions that allow contractors and users to access the proper data stores.

Recent news stories about Hillary Clinton’s email server and the breach of the Pentagon’s servers might lead network managers to believe that most security threats are external. Security experts tell us, however, that most data breaches happen because of activity within an organization. Permission Analyzer provides the tools that business people need to keep their servers safe and secure. By running Permission Analyzer regularly, the management team can effectively control employee access to company data.

Unlike other programs that help manage permissions on a network, Permission Analyzer scans an entire network and builds a database that can then be used by network administrators, chief information officers (CIOs), systems auditors, or any authorized employees who need to manage the network. Multiple users can use the database to perform queries and to show results in seconds, without scanning the network for every overview that is being built by a user. This design eliminates unnecessary network traffic, and dramatically reduces network load.

Permission Analyzer can scan an entire network, or focus on specific computers and directories. You can even analyze nested group information by selecting LDAP organizational units to scan. Once the database has been updated with the current information, users can run reports or query the database by creating filters that include or exclude members, permissions, files, or folders.

A unique feature of Permission Analyzer’s design is its ability to work with all of the members from an Active Directory group or Organizational Unit. With competitors’ software, if a user wants to ensure that nobody in the Consultants group had access to the Personnel Department’s folder, it would be necessary to inspect every member in the Consultants group individually. With Permission Analyzer, the user could use a single query to ensure that no members of the Consultants group has access to the Personnel information. In just a few minutes, network administrators could ensure that only the proper people have access to personnel folders, the legal department’s confidential information, top management’s planning directories, and other sensitive data.

It is easy to save selections of filters, exports, and policies and run them automatically using Windows Scheduler. Many network administrators, for example, schedule a daily network scan as well as HTML/CSV exports and policies that will send an email notification when unwanted permissions are found.

The software lets you drill down into the database and trace the origin of any group of permissions. Unusual permissions could be inherited from a direct or indirect group membership or from a parent folder. Or such permissions may be indicators of a security breach.

Permission Analyzer’s internal database can support the largest networks that an enterprise might run. In addition, the Enterprise and Consultant Editions of the software work with Oracle, DB2, MS SQL, MySQL, and other popular databases.

Whether you’re a network administrator who needs to manage NTFS permissions, a security officer who needs to be sure that every employee and consultant has the proper access and permissions, or a line manager who wants to streamline and automate permissions information, Permission Analyzer has the tools that you need.

Perdemia’s Permission Analyzer runs under Windows Vista or higher. Prices for the Basic Edition begin at $149(US), with affordable Standard, Advanced, and Enterprise Editions available. A trial version is available online, as well as time-limited versions of each of the Permission Analyzer editions.

For more information, visit https://www.PermissionAnalyzer.com. Perdemia, Het Achtkant 64, 1906 GE Limmen, The Netherlands.