Avecto Blog

It surprises me how few vendors use Active Directory Group Policy as a mechanism to centrally manage and deploy policy settings for their Windows based products, and instead build their own backend infrastructure for this purpose. I could rattle off a long list of benefits, including hierarchical management, a strong security model that includes delegated administration, built-in replication, stability and scalability, to name but a few.

Even if you could build your own deployment mechanism that matched or even surpassed the features in Active Directory Group Policy, there would still be one over-riding reason not to do so … most organizations already have an Active Directory in place, and they have carefully designed and built an infrastructure that is suitable for their environment. So why provide them with a proprietary system for your product that requires additional servers and all of the dedicated training, management and support time that is required to set up and maintain this new infrastructure. Click here to read more »

As a new software release leaves the building, it seemed an opportune time to start blogging, not to plug the release of course, click here. Alright, I’m allowed one shameless plug in my first blog given the team have worked so hard on this release. But seriously, I’m hoping that my blog will become a balance between sharing my experience in the system management space, with a bias towards least privilege, and providing valuable insights into the Privilege Guard product.

I’ve never made the time to blog, but I’m going to make a special effort now, so I suppose we’ll see how it goes. I took the plunge with twitter a few months ago, and although I started well, my tweets fell off as the self-imposed pressures of a new software release mounted. Anyway, enough of the excuses and on with my first blog, and of course there will be a twitter link to this blog, so my tweets will be reborn too! Click here to read more »