In every organization there exists a somewhat buried but very dangerous loophole: the presence of local administrator accounts. Local administrator accounts are often times created directly by users and are hidden from the IT manager’s standard tracked list of administrative accounts managed by Active Directory. These accounts can be used by malware to install malicious software on local computers through the administrator account. Further penetration into the IT environment is then accessible through this loophole.  

Bob Gourley, editor of CTOvision.com and founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Crucial Point LLC, will present the layers of endpoint protection necessary to ensure IT security and operations managers have a method for mitigating critical IT security risk. He will explain how each tool protects the endpoint, and how they work together to prevent breaches.

Next, Viewfinity will demonstrate a method for removing admin rights and managing privileges for standard users through policies, including how to:

• Discover user accounts that have local administrative rights
• Remove users or suspicious groups from the administrators group
• Control user permissions/privilege elevation via granular level policies

Join Lieberman Software and Viewfinity for a live demonstration detailing how the two products work together to protect companies from IT security threats. First, Lieberman Software will demonstrate its fully automated password management and privileged account auditing.  Next, Viewfinity will demonstrate how to elevate privileges for standard users or to reduce permissions for privileged users on specific applications and tasks in a least privilege environment.

Wednesday, February 15, 2012 2:00PM EST/11:00AM PST 

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Four-part Webcast Series to Focus on Least Privilege Management as a Fundamental Layer of IT Security Protection

The first webinar in the series, "Top 10 tips for Removing Administrator Rights," will be held on Thursday January 26, 2012 at 11 a.m. Pacific / 2 p.m. ET.   This webcast will prevent tips for removing administrator rights on endpoints without impacting user productivity.  The tips will be followed by an actual use case presentation by Monique Sendze, associate director of Information Technology for Douglas County (State), who will share the proactive steps they have taken to secure their computers by removing admin rights and managing privileges for standard users via automated policies.

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In every organization there exists a somewhat buried but very dangerous keyhole, that is the presence of administrative accounts which are not part of the Domain Users. Those accounts are actually hidden from the IT manager’s standard tracked list of domain administrative accounts and can be used by malware to install malicious software on local computers through the “local” administrator account.  Further penetration into the IT environment is then accessible by capturing passwords, including passwords for access to critical data.   It is essential that IT security and operations managers have a method for mitigating this risk.

Sign-up today for our 35 minute live demo session featuring our free tool Local Admin Discovery that allows you to discover user accounts and groups that are members of the local “Administrators” built-in user group on computers in your Windows domain.

Reserve your seat today by signing up here.

Wednesday January 4th, 2012 9:30AM EST

Viewfinity’s customer, Monique Sendze, Associate Director of Information Technology for Douglas County, discusses how Viewfinity is used in their environment on this webcast presented via Federal Computer Week and GCN earlier this week.  Douglas County removed administrator rights from end users and moved to a least privileges environment to adhere to FDCC compliance and they needed a method to elevate privileges for end users to complete software deployment and upgrades without sacrificing security, end user productivity or exhausting IT resources. Douglas County saved $180,000+ in IT costs within 6 months of implementing the software.

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Last week Microsoft & Viewfinity presented a joint webinar entitled:  Windows 7 Migration is the Opportunity to Lockdown Desktops & Manage Standard User Privileges.  During this webinar, Alex Shteynberg, Technology Architect in the New York City Microsoft Technology Center discussed reasons why the desktop refresh fits perfectly into a Windows 7 migration project for securing and managing endpoints.

Next, Alex Shoykhet, VP of Product Management for Viewfinity, discussed how Viewfinity Privilege Management allows IT professionals to remove administrative rights and manage privileges for standard users with zero impact on user productivity. He demonstrated Viewfinity's non-disruptive, automated method for transitioning to a least privileges environment, which is an end-to-end approach that automates the analysis required to determine user needs and prepare your environment.

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