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Secure Your Systems for the Next Series of Compliance Mandates

This whitepaper looks at a series of new mandates, and how you can prepare your PCs and servers using existing and 3rd-party solutions, including configuration and information assurance (IA) controls applicable to Windows servers and PCs. The best practices outlined in this paper can be used as the foundation for creating baseline security configurations that will be effective at protecting your environment, help with meeting compliance regulations and put you one step ahead of the competition.

Best Practices For Removing End-User Admin Rights On Windows

Featured speaker, Gartner’s Neil MacDonald discusses best practices for effectively managing end user privileges.

Removing administrator rights from end users is one of the single most-effective ways to improve overall security posture, but it must be well-planned to avoid common pitfalls and a failed project.

During this session, Neil outlines the best practices to understand why removing administrator rights from end users is one of the single most-effective ways to improve overall security posture. During the session, Neil will also offer best practice guidelines to make sure doing so is well-planned if common pitfalls and a failed project are to be avoided.

Centralizing Windows Events with Event Forwarding

This document provides guidance on how to centralize Privilege Guard events to a central server using Windows Event Forwarding. Event Forwarding is provided by Windows Remote Management (WinRM) which is Microsoft’s implementation of WS-Management Protocol, a SOAP based, firewall-friendly protocol, which provides a common way for systems to access and exchange management information across an IT infrastructure.

United States Government Baseline Configuration (USGCB)

This whitepaper outlines some of the challenges faced by federal agencies or private organizations implementing USGCB, and solutions to effectively overcome them.

Privilege Guard Getting Started Guide

If you are looking to evaluate Privilege Guard but don’t know where to start then our Getting Started Guide can help you..

Problem Applications Tutorial

A short 2 minute video that briefly demonstrates how to run OS functions and third party apps that require admin rights from as stand user account.

ActiveX Tutorial

Take a look at how a standard user can self-serve ActiveX installation with Privilege Guard a short 1 minute video.