
Acquisition adds to the company’s product portfolio to unlock the value of Active Directory as the authoritative identity store
CARLSBAD, Calif. – December 12, 2012 – BeyondTrust, the security industry’s only provider of Context-Aware Security Intelligence, today announced the acquisition of Blackbird Group, a leader in Windows system management. With this addition, BeyondTrust furthers its vision to simplify IT security operations management, while providing customers much-needed context to improve decision-making to protect against both internal and external security threats.
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November 21, 2012, New York, NY – Blackbird Group, Inc. today announced that its Blackbird Management Suite received a third consecutive gold award from Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro® magazine. Blackbird won the “Editor’s Best Award 2012” in the Best Auditing/Compliance Product category, its second win for this category. In 2011, Blackbird won the gold award in the Best Active Directory and Group Policy Product category.
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New York, NY, October 8, 2012 – Blackbird Group, a world leader in Windows system management, announced outstanding results today for the third quarter of 2012. Continuing its history of profitability, innovation and customer focus, the company achieved more than 80 percent revenue growth compared to the same period last year. Blackbird also saw a significant increase in its customer base and the number of seats under management for the quarter.
NEW YORK, NY, June 27, 2012 – Today the Blackbird Group announced exciting new additions to its award-winning portfolio of Windows auditing, compliance, automation and reporting products. Blackbird Privilege Identity Auditor is a free community offering that provides central user authentication auditing across the Windows environment including logins, failed logins and last logons. Blackbird Last Logon Reporter, also a free community application, installs in minutes and enables administrators to calculate the true last logon of users and computers as required by many compliance mandates.
ORLANDO, Florida, June 11, 2012 -- Today at Microsoft TechEd North America 2012, the Blackbird Group announced two new free community products that extend its reach into the cloud: Blackbird Auditor for Office 365and Blackbird Auditor for Google Apps. They will be available soon for download and provide a central audit database for reporting and alerting on all configuration changes and user activity within these cloud-based applications.
New York, NY, February 13, 2012 – Blackbird Group, Inc. today announced that its Blackbird Management Suite received a strongly positive review from renowned industry expert, Craig Burton. Writing in a recent Product Research Note for KuppingerCole, Burton praised it as a “formidable set of tools for administrators dealing with Microsoft-centric technologies.” Furthermore, he “strongly recommends the use of the Blackbird Management Suite for Microsoft-centric IT environments.”