For Immediate Release
83% OF ORGANIZATIONS LOOKING AT DESKTOP LOCKDOWN NEW RESEARCH SHOWS
-Newsletter from Viewfinity featuring Leading Industry Analyst Firm Details Effective PC Lockdown - Beyond the All or Nothing Approach-
Waltham, MA — May 24, 2010 — Viewfinity (www.viewfinity.com), the innovator of systems and privilege management, today released market research on recent trends showing how organizations are revisiting PC control policies and increasing desktop lockdown, featuring Gartner.
Effective PC Lockdown: Beyond the All or Nothing Approach
http://www.gartner.com/technology/media-products/newsletters/viewfinity/issue1/index.html
“A definite relationship exists between IT support costs and PC lockdown. Organizations implement a least privileges policy to better control and protect the distributed desktop environment and reduce system vulnerability,” said Terrence Cosgrove, Senior Research Analyst with Gartner. “To avoid merely shifting support calls related to unstable PCs to a high frequency of incidental type calls, companies should consider privilege management tools that will allow them to manage by user type or role, which helps extend the value of lock down beyond the all or nothing approach.”
Newsletter Content
Often a politically charged decision, Gartner research shows that 52% of organizations will increase the number of desktops they lock down, while 31% will continue an existing policy. This newsletter provides insight through Gartner’s research as well as other key industry findings including:
· Organizations Are Increasing PC Lockdown, Terrence Cosgrove, Ronni J. Colville
· Best Practices for PC Lockdown and Control Policies, Dwain Kinghorn, former CTO of Altiris
· Case Study by Lathrop & Gage: Moving Desktop Environment Toward Least Privileges Operation
· Viewfinity Privilege Management Information and Resources
Better Operations Control through Privilege Management
“In theory, operating a least privileges environment offers more control over endpoints, which should lead to a decrease in IT support costs,” said Leonid Shtilman, CEO of Viewfinity. “However, all too often the support calls merely shift from being related to unstable PCs to end users who cannot perform basic business functions. The end result is that true savings has not been achieved. Fortunately, Viewfinity Privilege Management offers a strategy for managing administrator rights within a least privileges operating environment beyond the typical all–or-nothing approach.”
Viewfinity Privilege Management offers IT Administrators a flexible approach for controlling its corporate desktop and laptop environment. With tighter, yet flexible control over the types of applications and privileges your distributed workforce are allowed, the more stable your desktop environment becomes. With this enhanced control over managing your environment, the number of end user support calls to the help desk are reduced.
About Viewfinity
Viewfinity offers privilege and systems management solutions to manage, support and control desktops, laptops and Windows servers. Viewfinity is a single platform to support on-network and mobile users that allows IT administrators to manage and control any computer over the WAN regardless of worker location.
Viewfinity introduces granularity to privilege management by offering enhanced flexibility and control for managing administrator rights for locked down computers.
With its web-hosted model, Viewfinity solves IT’s greatest headache--management of mobile workers—by providing true native remote systems management capabilities and absolute network independence. For more information, visit
www.viewfinity.com.
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