On Demand Webinars

Compliance in Finance

Leveraging Least Privilege to Tick the Box

Have you achieved compliance with the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s Technology Risk Management (TRM) compliance framework yet? Global financial institutions are now racing against the clock to ensure they are in a position to meet its requirement that excessive access rights must be removed.

Viewed internationally as a well-respected & stringent mandate, the latest iteration of MAS views the insider as posing a significant threat to information security and decrees that system privileges should be assigned and audited according to the job role of individual staff members.

Using Least Privilege to Aid Compliance

Using Least Privilege to Aid Compliance Presented by Andrew Avanessian - VP Professional Services

Whether you’re at the mercy of internal mandates or you’re within an industry that’s driven by security legislation, compliance is a fact of life for every organization. What’s more, sophisticated security threats and Zero-day attacks can lead to frustration as the bulls-eye of compliance is a continually moving target.

Join Andrew Avanessian, Avecto’s VP of Professional Services, in this educational webinar, discussing the very latest updates to regulatory compliance mandates and what these mean for organizations with users running with admin rights or elevated privileges.

Controlling the Techie

Controlling the Techie Presented by Andrew Avanessian - VP Professional Services

Traditionally, the Techie’s within any organisation have held the keys to the kingdom. And in many instances this was right and just. However with the growth of inside threat from those with excessive administration privileges, the time has come to take stock and review just what the real needs of this group are as opposed to fulfilling or letting them fulfil their every administrative desire.

Hosted by Andrew Avanessian, Avecto’s Vice President of Professional Services, this 30 minute session discusses the challenges that arise when the technical team have more access and more privileges than they really need to do their jobs. Andrew discusses how without knowing it, windows of security vulnerability are left wide open by the very people who should know better. Using real life illustrations and product demonstration Andrew will illustrate how least privilege can help control the Techie by enhancing security, aiding compliance and improving operational effectiveness.

Maintaining Your Gold Standard Desktop

Maintaining Your Gold Standard Desktop Presented by Andrew Avanessian - VP Professional Services

When you have taken time, resource and money to agree and build your gold standard desktop, the last thing you want is to lose control. Whether the build was via desktop refresh or an OS migration, letting users have rights and privileges they don’t require can disseminate the build leaving it vulnerable to malware attack, compliance breaches and licensing concerns.

This 30 minute session hosted by Andrew Avanessian, Avecto’s Vice President of Professional Services, discusses the challenges organisations face in trying to maintain their gold standard desktops amid the requirements of a remote and mobile workforce, privilege creepers and continual onslaught of inbound and internal security threats. Using real life illustrations and product demonstration Andrew will illustrate how least privilege can help maintain the gold standard desktop, enhance security, aid compliance and improve operational effectiveness.

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.

10 Logical Reasons to Implement 'Least Privilege'
Presented by Russell Smith - Windows Security Expert

If you’re responsible for IT security or user efficiency across your network – then this is a webinar you should not miss.

Why? Because it’s an opportunity for you to learn why organizations migrating to Windows 7, are using ‘Least Privilege’ to deliver the ‘Least Risk Windows 7’ environment.

In this one hour educational on-demand webinar, Windows Security Expert Russell Smith (author of ‘Least Privilege Security for Windows 7, Vista and XP’), gives you ten logical reasons to adopt a policy of ‘Least Privilege’

Understanding Active Directory
Presented by Jeremy Moskowitz - Group Policy MVP

Join Jeremy in this hour long, on-demand webinar and gain some great insights into 'Understanding Active Directory'.

Active Directory is a critical part of every Microsoft network, but many new and seasoned administrators have misunderstandings of how it works, its moving parts and how it keeps your network secure.

In this informative webinar, learn or get refreshed on what “is” Active Directory and the ways it can be designed to make your world more optimal and more secure.

Jeremy Moskowitz is a Group Policy MVP and Chief Propeller-Head for Moskowitz, inc. and GPanswers.com. GPanswers.com was ranked as one of “The 20 most useful Microsoft sites for IT professionals” by ComputerWorld magazine.

He is one of less than a dozen Microsoft MVPs in Group Policy and has performed Active Directory and Group Policy planning and implementations for some of the nation's largest organizations. His latest book is Group Policy Fundamentals, Security, and the Managed Desktop (WILEY, 2010).

Least Privilege Security for Windows 7, Vista and XP
Presented by Russell Smith - Windows Security Expert

This on demand webinar from Windows security guru – Russell Smith will help you learn more about the principle of least privilege

Least Privilege Security for Windows 7, Vista and XP hosted by Russell Smith

During the webinar, Russell discusses the challenges organizations face when trying to deal with the issue of “privilege creep” within the enterprise. He highlights how by adopting a policy of least privilege organizations of every size can benefit.