In this video, Shtilman sits with SC Magazine reporter, Danielle Walker, to discuss privileged management and ways organizations can secure corporate accounts.

"An effective security strategy should include adequate privileged management security practices. Certain applications should be whitelisted, others blacklisted, and those that fall between the lines are graylisted. According to Leonid Shtilman, CEO of Viewfinity, graylisted applications are the ones that need to be monitored closely. They need to put under restrictive modes that won't allow the application to access corporate data, thus limiting the amount of damage that can be done if an intruder happens to gain privileged access to an employees account."

Read more:  http://www.scmagazine.com/video-privileged-access-in-the-enterprise/article/288300/ 

A Fine Line

Doug Barney of Redmond Magazine published an article "Cloud Conversions: Software Vendors Transforming into Service Providers".  In this article he discusses how "the cloud is putting pressure on traditional software companies to redefine their focus to a service-oriented business model" and reviews several vendors that are transitioning their traditional software to embrace the cloud model.  Viewfinity was featured as one of the vendors who has made cloud-based delivery of its software part of it's portifolio.  

Read the full article here:   http://redmondmag.com/articles/2012/10/01/cloud-conversions.aspx 

 

Viewfinity has entered into a technology and marketing partnership with Centrify Corporation to integrate Centrify’s DirectControl for Mac OS X solution with the Viewfinity Privilege Management product.  This is critical to enterprises today as Mac devices need to be secured at the same level as other endpoint devices.

This partnership allows Viewfinity to offer Centrify’s DirectControl for Mac solution to enable administrators to utilize Active Directory-based authentication and Windows Group Policy for centralized application control policies on Mac systems in the workplace.  While IT desktop support personnel can centrally configure privilege policies for application and desktop tasks for Windows-based endpoints, administrators are challenged because Macs are still often managed on a standalone basis.  With this joint solution, IT administrators can easily lock down and manage their entire desktop environment because policies for Mac systems are easily integrated to the most complex environments using the same processes, people and infrastructure as are used for Windows systems.

 

Viewfinity Privilege Management 4.0 was honored with a Stevie® Award in the New Product or Service of the Year - Software - Security Solution category in The 10^th Annual American Business Awards.  Viewfinity stands out as the only privilege management vendor to be awarded the Stevie Award in 2012.  More than 3,000 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted this year for consideration in a wide range of categories. Stevie Award winners were selected by more than 270 executives nationwide who participated in the judging process this year. 

"The Stevie Award reflects our dedication to developing and delivering the industry's most advanced and reliable privilege management solution,” said Leonid Shtilman, CEO, Viewfinity. “It’s an honor to have won this distinction out of an extensive list of nominees, and we are equally as proud to have this recognition come alongside established, proven products from RSA, HP, GFI, SecureAuth and Threatmetrix.”

Be sure to cast your vote for Viewfinity in these four categories:

• Category #1 Best Activie Directory & Group Policy Product
• Category #5 Best Cloud Computing Product or Service
• Category #22 Best Security Product
• Category #30 Best Vendor Tech Support 

Vote here:   http://www.windowsitpro.com/awards/community-choice.  Winners will be announced in December. 

 

Thank you!

Enterprise Systems Journal interviews Steve Welgoss of Movado, during which he discusses how Movado resolved its challenges related to the daily influx of support calls on issues that affected PC performance and reliability. 

Q&A: Setting the Proper Security Rights (Case Study)

Getting just the right mix of security and user friendliness at Movado.
By James Powell,  08/27/2012

http://esj.com/articles/2012/08/27/Setting-Security-Rights.aspx

If you missed the popular webinar with Group Policy Guy and Microsoft Group Policy MVP, Darren Mar-Elia and Viewfinity on Windows 7 Security and Managing UAC Prompts, then you can catch the recording here.

As part of the Windows 7 desktop refresh, many companies have removed local administrative rights on the endpoint and are using the Windows 7 built-in security features.  Darren Mar-Elia walks you through the components of the Windows built-in security features and in which situations they work best.  Darren also introduces other methods for enhancing endpoint security within Windows 7 as related to managing UAC dialog boxes and best practices for managing administrator rights.

Have you used the same password more than once at your workplace? If you answered yes, then you are definitely not alone and should continue reading.

 

In a recent security breach at Dropbox as reported by Richard Adhikari of TechNewsWorld, hackers found their way into Dropbox  by trying stolen passwords from other sites on Dropbox and were successful in compromising many accounts including that of an employee.  Dropbox says “reused passwords are to blame for a wave of spam that's hitting subscribers to the service.”  The company’s response to the security breach was to introduce two-factor password authentication.

Is Password Management the solution? 

The reality is this issue cannot be solved through password management alone. The problem is not Dropbox, the problem is that a policy of password-only security is outdated.  You can change passwords frequently, you can use software that will intelligently look at suspicious behavior, etc., but the only way to confirm a person’s identity is to add biometric facial recognition. For example, in the EU they’re not using their passport they are looking at the camera and the camera authorizes their entry.   

A camera for facial recognition plus passwords will solve 99% of the problems. Cameras are very prevalent on today’s desktop PCs and laptops so it is fairly easy to do. Today’s facial recognition technology is very advanced so even less sophisticated software would be enough. It’s a small database storage investment for an excellent solution.