Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Avecto Unveils Privilege Guard 3.5 at Microsoft TechEd North America
Manchester (UK) and Boston (US)
Avecto, the leader in Windows privilege management, today
launched the latest version of their award winning Privilege Guard
solution.
"At its core, Privilege Guard helps organizations resolve three
key challenges - it strengthens their security posture, reduces
operational costs and helps them achieve compliance," explains Mark
Austin, Avecto's co-founder and chief technology officer. "The
workforce's ability to function effectively has a direct impact on
an organization's productivity, yet users' actions directly affect
enterprise security. Too restrictive and support costs spiral, too
lax and support is of least concern. The functionality we've
introduced in Privilege Guard 3.5 makes it even easier for
organizations to strike that perfect balance."
With Privilege Guard all users operate under a standard user
account and privileges are assigned directly to the applications
that require them. Privilege Guard 3.5 introduces a number of
unique features, which now make it even easier for organizations to
introduce scalable, adaptive privilege management, with an
unparalleled end user experience and enterprise class
reporting.
"Compliance requirements and security concerns remain the
primary impetuses for the expanding implementation of Windows
privilege management. As organizations begin to apply a set of
policies to how privileges are controlled and distributed in order
to facilitate normal business processes, the platform coverage of
those policies as well as the degree to which they are automated
emerge as governance and operational issues. Alongside
reporting tools that allow organizations to better quantify and
benchmark privileged accounts under management, Avecto has
developed deeper hooks into the Windows operating system, and built
a set of filters to apply policies in a more automated fashion."
Says Steve Coplan, Research Manager at 451 Research.
From a commercial perspective, Andy Bristow, World Wide Director
of HP Enterprise Security Services, says "Avecto's Privilege Guard
is an important part of the HP ESS Identity and Access Management
security portfolio. Privilege Guard is used by our customers to
bolster the security of Windows based systems, achieve compliance
and improve operational effectiveness. The latest enhancements in
v3.5 have raised the bar in terms of managing both external and
insider threats, delivering enterprises the ability to implement
more intuitive and flexible security measures. Avecto listened and
responded to customer requirements and this latest version really
sets their technology apart from other offerings available in the
market today. Combined with HP ESS implementation and support
services, we are able to deliver solutions globally that enables
customers to implement a least privilege, least risk and least cost
environment. "
What's new in Privilege Guard 3.5:
New Enterprise Reporting Health Dashboard
Privilege Guard Enterprise Reporting now includes a new health
dashboard which reports on all privileged logons across the
enterprise. Trend analysis reports help to track the migration of
all users to least privilege over time, with the ability to switch
quickly between daily, weekly, monthly or yearly dashboards.
New Smart Card Authentication
With its new Smartcard Authentication, Privilege Guard 3.5
introduces support for two factor authentication. Integrated
seamlessly with existing smart card infrastructures, this new
feature can be configured to enforce a specific type of
authentication based on policy.
New COM Class Application Type
Privilege Guard is the first privilege management solution to
provide granular control over COM Classes and includes a complete
set of templates to simplify policy creation. Windows relies on COM
extensively to seamlessly embed more than 120 privileged tasks
within the explorer shell, including:
- Device installations and power options
- Language, region and display settings
- Network, sharing and synchronization settings
- Windows Updates and Language Packs
- File, folder and drive settings
- 3rd Party software, such as the Apple Software
Updater
New WMI Filter
The introduction of the WMI Filter in Privilege Guard 3.5
leverages the wealth of information accessible through Windows
Management Instrumentation, to enable the targeting of policies
based on a wide variety of conditions, including operating system,
hardware and software settings.
Deeper Audit & Reporting Integration
Following on from the success of its McAfee ePO integration in
Privilege Guard 3.0, Avecto has opened up Privilege Guard 3.5 to
allow administrators to script their own integrations with other
third party products or proprietary reporting and ticketing
systems.
For more information about all of the new features in Privilege
Guard 3.5 visit /whats-new
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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