Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Avecto Launches Privilege Guard 2.8 – Significant Security and Flexibility Enhancements for Windows Users
As more and more organizations migrate to Windows 7, balancing improved security with end-user expectations is now a key challenge.
Boston, MA and Manchester UK
Avecto Ltd, the leader in Windows privilege management, today
announced the latest feature enhancements to its award winning
Privilege Guard technology.
"With Privilege Guard 2.8, we have added a number of security
enhancements, such as the ability to digitally sign policies and an
intelligent anti-tamper mechanism that can distinguish between
elevated processes and true system administrators," said Mark
Austin, CTO at Avecto. "These security enhancements, together with
a number of usability improvements, demonstrate Avecto's continued
leadership in the Windows Privilege Management space. Privilege
Guard is trusted by many of world's largest and most demanding
organizations, especially in respect to system security."
This latest version of Privilege Guard enables organizations to
implement a greater degree of control and flexibility into managing
system security and end user expectations.
Key enchancements include:
- Ability to sign Privilege Guard policies with digital
certificates, ensuring the integrity of deployed policies across
the enterprise.
- An intelligent anti-tamper mechanism that can distinguish
between elevated processes and real system administrators.
- Extended custom access tokens with configurable process access
rights and token ownership.
- Enhanced end user messaging, which can now include a custom
hyperlink to provide additional support or help desk
integration.
- Improved application group management, with inline search and
filtering.
- Optimizations to the reporting console to provide fast load
times when handling millions of events.
"Customers who choose Privilege Guard to help them improve their
Windows desktop security will quickly see efficiency gains across
their business. For us, implementing Avecto's Privilege Guard
solution was seamless and completely transparent, and it has given
my team a greater degree of control over our desktop users," says
Gavin Wilson, Senior Support Analyst at Oxford University
Press.
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. For more information, visit www.avecto.com
Contact:
Donna Shaw, Avecto
donna.shaw@avecto.com
Regine Hartmann
regine@eskenzipr.com
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