Viewfinity will be exhibiting in booth 610 at the 2012 Microsoft Management Summit next week! We will be showing live demos of our Privilege Management solution.  We hope to see you there!

To schedule a one-on-one demo at MMS 2012, click here.

FierceGovernmentIT reported that Government Core Baseline (GCB), formerly known as FDCC, violations were found at a large energy company, along with other least privilege violations.  The company responded swiftly and remediation tactics underway, but are they enough to become compliant and reduce exposure to security risks?  They've started with the layered approach with patch management and password controls however our Energy & Utility clients have completely removed administrative privileges and are using Viewfinity Privilege Management to elevate privileges on the application level, closing down the loophole presented when users have administrator accounts. 

"The report also criticizes the power administration for not following the Government Configuration Baseline (formerly known as the Federal Desktop Core Configuration) on only two of its four server operating systems.

Are you attending next week’s Infosec World Conference or the DoDIIS Worldwide Conference?  If so, make sure to pre-register with Viewfinity for a one-on-one demonstration of our Privilege Management solution using the links below for each show. 

Viewfinity will be exhibiting in the Carahsoft Pavilion at the DoDIIS show in booth 425 and will be exhibiting in booth 213 at the Infosec show.

Pre-register for a demo at InfoSec

Pre-register for a demo at DoDIIS

At the recent RSA Conference in San Francisco, David Larson of NetHawk TV interviewed Gil Rapaport on how careful control of administrator rights is the very foundation of IT security because when users have widespread administrator rights; this opens the network to a variety of security risks.  Where antivirus solutions will stop known threats, least privilege -- through the removal of administrative privileges -- can help to combat risks that are presently unknown to antivirus software.  Users do not need to have full administrator rights to accomplish daily tasks, and privileged users should have restricted access to tasks related to their role/responsibilities only.  Viewfinity Privilege Management solution controls end user and privileged user rights for applications and systems which require elevated permissions and helps solve these organizational challenges.

The number one challenge is that people are not really aware that there is the option to make endpoints more secure while at the same time keeping end-users happy and productive. Everyone is aware of the problem that you don't want to give admin rights to end-users, but at the same time IT is afraid to take away those rights. With Viewfinity you can balance between security and operational needs.

Watch the full discussion by following the link: RSA 2012 – Viewfinity’s Gil Rapaport On End User Application Management Driven By Productivity