“If you're not careful, hackers could cost you the money you were trying to save in the first place.” – Dal Gemmell of entrepreneur.com

In an entrepreneur.com article titled “How to Protect Remote Employees' PCs from Security Threats”, Dal Gemmell addresses the issues that exist when employees work remotely. 

The first issue being: Less protection equals more vulnerability.   

Less protection equals more vulnerability- not only is this true but it is the one of the main reasons many organizations experience a security breach.  Security threats have become increasingly  sophisticated.  More and more employees are working remotely so the need to secure its mobile workforce should be on the top of every company’s IT security priority list.  There are plenty of solutions that can help to protect employees working remotely but one solution that tops the list to securing mobile endpoints is moving to a least privileges environment.  In a least privilege environment, administrator rights are removed from end users and IT administrators manage user permissions through policies that elevate privileges at the application level.  

Viewfinity understands the nuances associated with managing your mobile and remote endpoints, which is why Viewfinity’s privilege management solution is specifically architected to support mobile workers. Here are two case studies that demonstrate how companies are using Viewfinity Privilege Management for application control for remote workers: 

Kilgore College came to Viewfinity for a solution that would help to solve their problems with virus attacks and malware partly due to the fact that most of its staff and faculty have administrator rights. The IT team supports approximately 1100 desktops and 200 laptops with a user base spread out over the main campus in Kilgore and its second campus in Longview Texas. Kilgore College had a dilemma on how to support faculty on and off campus, especially during the summer months when classes are not in session, but faculty is still working.  Kilgor College implemented Viewfinity’s Privilege Management solution and Luke Saintignan, System Administrator for Kilgore College was pleases to say “Viewfinity was the only product that did exactly what I wanted -- I had problems getting the other two products that I evaluated to do what I needed. The fact that Viewfinity works in tandem with Active Directory but not directly reliant on it, was huge to me. If Active Directory goes down, I still have least privilege and policies that actively manage my machines.”   Read the Kilgore College Case Study. 

EagleMed, LLC is a Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Services (CAMTS) accredited critical care transport service needed a solution to solving the time consuming, difficult problem they were experiencing when providing hands-on support to the remote bases in order to resolve security issues due to malware and viruses, keeping the machines patched to a consistent level (the individual bases determined which updates they would and would not apply) and deploying software.  With the implementation of Viewfinity’s Privilege Management solution, EagleMed’s IT Team is able to more efficiently support the vast remote user base without traveling the location and response times are faster and when a request comes in for software upgrades, users do not have to wait to get a copy in the mail or for IT to drive it out to base.  In most cases, end user requests are resolved the same day, usually within 15-30 minutes.   “Viewfinity was instrumental in helping us solve our challenges related to managing off-domain machines. Since Viewfinity works in tandem with Active Directory but does not require laptops or desktops to be part of the Active Directory domain or to be directly connected to the corporate network, we are now able to easily and quickly resolve issues on any off-network device,” Ryan Kane, Systems Engineer for EagleMed.  Read the EagleMed Case Study.

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