In an article featured on InfoTech Spotlight titled “Viewfinity Provides Holistic View for Privilege Management,” Senior Editor, Peter Bernstein said “The subject that few enterprises like to talk about in public, but which is top of mind when IT professionals gather, is security.”

Viewfinity takes IT security seriously.  Being the leader in the privilege management space, Viewfinity hosted a webinar on March 13, 2012 to educate IT professionals about Using Group Policy to Manage Administrator Accounts.  Alex Shoykhet, VP of Product Management at Viewfinity discussed in detail the security risks and vulnerabilities that exist when end users are granted with full administrator rights.  A crucial fundamental step in securing the endpoint is removing these administrator rights and managing them with a privilege management solution. Alex demonstrated Viewfinity’s method for leveraging Group Policy to elevate privileges for standard users, how to block applications and toolbars, and custom configure security messages to end users.

Previous chapters in the Moving to a Least Privileges Environment eBook series highlight the feature and functional values that an organization sees when using a privilege management product. The new chapter (Chapter 7) ties in the final puzzle piece that explains in detail the business benefits derived by utilizing a privilege management solution to manage administrative privileges for standard and privileged users.  The chapter makes the business case for ROI when deploying a privilege management solution.

Chapter 7 and the entire eBook series can be downloaded here.

Do the terms “hacker” or “cyber attack” catch your attention?  They should and if they don’t then you should definitely read “Experts to business owners: Beware of hackers” by Charles McChesney of The Post-Standard. While there are endless attempts from cyber criminals to compromise your network, there are ways to significantly mitigate these attempts. 

A fundamental approach and best practice is implementing and enforcing the “principle of least privilege” at your company.  Employees will be limited to only parts of the network and to applications they need to perform their daily work functions.  This means employees cannot install suspicious software or manipulate system settings.  This reduces the risks of viruses entering your network such as “crimeware” that captures keystrokes similar to what happened to the Central New York Business owner in the article. 

Be proactive, remove administrator rights from your end users and manage the permissions standard users require through automated policies. 

Viewfinity is a silver sponsor at the SC Congress NY show at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York City being held on November 16, 2011. SC Congress is a targeted event that brings together IT security experts to talk about current IT trends, IT security breaches, vulnerabilities in mobile and cloud security, and IT security solutions that are overall helping companies secure their network.

Viewfinity Privilege Management will be demonstrated at Booth #312.

Click here to register for a demo session

We look forward to seeing you at SC Congress New York.