Monday, February 06, 2012
Avecto Launch Privilege Guard 3.0 with Enterprise Reporting
The Windows Privilege Management Solution of Choice for the Enterprise
Manchester (UK) and Boston (USA)
Avecto - the leader in Windows privilege management, has now
unveiled the latest version of its award-winning Privilege Guard
technology. Developed to enable organizations to give all
users the privileges they need to remain productive, Privilege
Guard empowers them to perform their role without impacting the
security posture of systems and networks.
Privilege Guard 3.0 now combines application elevation,
application control, end user messaging and a complete auditing and
reporting framework for all your Windows based systems.
"Working with our global customer base, we've made Privilege
Guard 3.0 even more intuitive to configure, with full search
capabilities, summary views and a new message designer," explains
Mark Austin, Avecto's co-founder and chief technology officer. "As
you explore beyond the obvious visual enhancements, you'll find a
host of new features. There's a new delegated user capability,
which caters for help desk staff and over-the-shoulder departmental
administration. We've also extended the application validation
rules and included the ability for users to unlock shared
workstations, ensuring Privilege Guard continues to be the most
powerful and flexible privilege management solution on the market
today."
"With Windows enterprise privilege management serving as the
company's point of departure, Avecto has developed a distinctive
approach that encompasses tools to iteratively improve the
efficiency of IT administrative operations as well as engineer a
balance in policy management between autonomy and centralization",
comments Steve Coplan, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Security
Practice, 451 Research. "Avecto's release of Privilege Guard
3.0 reinforces the set of capabilities available to deliver a
policy-enablement framework for managing user privileges through
the operations and policy management lifecycle - from gathering
user requirements, deploying and enforcing policy, enabling user
feedback as well as a complete auditing and reporting
capability".
Privilege Guard 3.0 introduces two new optional add-on packs,
which provide enterprise reporting capabilities based on Microsoft
SQL Server and integration with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator
(ePO).
The Enterprise Reporting Pack is built on Windows Event
Forwarding and SQL Server, and includes a rich set of preconfigured
dashboards and reports for elevated, executed, discovered and
blocked applications. The dashboards and reports all utilize SQL
Reporting Services, which allows secure access to the reports from
a web browser.
McAfee ePO enables customers to connect industry leading
security solutions to their enterprise infrastructure to increase
visibility, gain efficiencies, and strengthen protection. The
Avecto Privilege Guard ePO Integration Pack includes elevated,
executed, discovered and blocked applications. Additionally,
deployment times can be reduced and implementation simplified by
deploying the Privilege Guard Client directly from ePO.
Mark concludes, "We're continually looking for ways to improve
the flexibility, usability and security capabilities of Privilege
Guard and we believe version 3.0 ticks all of these boxes. Beyond
the core product enhancements, the new enterprise reporting
capabilities and McAfee ePO integration introduce a greater level
of visibility across the enterprise, enabling the creation of
compliance reports and the fine tuning of Privilege Guard
policies."
About Avecto
Avecto is the leader in Windows privilege management, helping
organizations to deploy secure and compliant desktops and servers.
With its award winning Privilege Guard technology, organizations
can now empower all Windows based desktop and server users with the
privileges they require to perform their roles, without
compromising the integrity and security of their systems.
Customers of all sizes rely on Avecto to reduce operating expenses
and strengthen security across their Windows based environments.
Our mission is to enable our customers to lower operating costs and
improve system security by implementing least privilege. Avecto is
building a worldwide channel of partners and system integrators and
is headquartered in Manchester, UK with key regional offices in
Andover, MA.
Contact:
Donna Shaw
donna.shaw@avecto.com
Regine Hartmann
Regine@eskenzipr.com
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