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- A Process Approach to Protecting Privileged Accounts & Meeting Regulatory Compliance
- This white paper outlines a sound process-based approach in protecting critical privileged accounts that are found in virtually every application, database and infrastructure device throughout enterprises. This paper will present BeyondTrust PowerKeeper as a solution to secure passwords for privileged accounts in heterogeneous IT environments. Through features such as automated...
- Tags: Account, Password, BeyondTrust, Regulatory Compliance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures
- White papers 2009-10-14
- Privileged Access Lifecycle Management: How PALM Refines Strategy for Enterprise IT
- Strengthening security, maintaining compliance, and achieving efficiencies and economies of scale are top-of-mind issues for enterprise IT executives. In this paper, IDC analysts examine the role of identity and access management IAM solutions in addressing these needs and specifically looks at the role privileged access lifecycle management PALM can play...
- Tags: Strategy, Microsoft Access, Lifecycle Management, Information Technology, Palm Inc., Access Management, BeyondTrust, Security Administration, Security
- White papers 2009-10-14
- Improving Efficiency in IT Administration by Implementing Policy Automation
- Privileged access is critical for smooth ongoing administration of IT assets. At the same time, this access exposes an organization to security risks, especially regarding insiders. The right solution will provide centralized visibility into policies as well as actions taken related to privileged access control. This will ensure that there...
- Tags: IT Administration, Information Technology, Automation, BeyondTrust, Strategy, Security, Management
- White papers 2009-10-14
- Root Access Risk Control for the Enterprise
- Compliance efforts and security concerns have driven businesses to make substantial investments in threat control. Too often, however, these efforts pay far too little heed to the risks posed by poorly controlled access to administrative privilege in IT, which can have a hugely disproportionate impact on the business. In...
- Tags: Microsoft Access, Enterprise, BeyondTrust, Security, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2009-10-14
- From Trust to Process: Closing the Risk Gap in Privileged Access Control
- In this whitepaper, Enterprise Management Associates EMA examines this critical issue in IT security administration in light of the BeyondTrust approach to helping businesses move from a trust-based system to a secure, auditable process in order to provide a higher standard of control and better support for regulatory compliance.
- Tags: Access Control, BeyondTrust, Regulatory Compliance, Workforce Management, Security Administration, Security, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures
- White papers 2009-10-14
- The Pursuit of a Standardized Solution for Secure Enterprise RBAC
- Each RBAC implementation varies in its capabilities and method of management. In a multi-platform environment, these differences introduce higher administration hours and costs because the various RBAC models are not consistent in administration and operation methodology. The differences among these implementations also increase the potential for misconfiguration and related security...
- Tags: Role-based Access Control, BeyondTrust, Security Administration, Security
- White papers 2009-10-14
- Preventing Data Breaches in Privileged Accounts Using Access Control
- It is critical that organizations are proactive in their approach to mitigating insider threats. Week-after week there are disturbing, déjà vu-like stories of significant data breaches, arrests connected to insider attacks, or investigation reports emphasizing the necessity to control privileged accounts that hold highly sensitive data. This white paper explores...
- Tags: Cost Savings, Access Control, BeyondTrust, Security Administration, Security
- White papers 2009-10-14
- PCI DSS Compliance in the UNIX/Linux Datacenter Environment
- This document explains how BeyondTrust PowerBroker supports the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard PCI DSS by limiting and tracking authorization to execute commands and programs that access servers and applications storing and using proprietary cardholder. BeyondTrust PowerBroker provides an auditable process that controls, monitors and records that access.
- Tags: Data Center, Unix, BeyondTrust, BeyondTrust PowerBroker, PCI, Data Centers, Linux, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Software
- White papers 2009-10-14
- BeyondTrust Case Study: DSM
- DSM was working on an internal project to migrate 18,000 desktops from Windows NT4 to Windows XP. A new group was created to design the XP desktop environment to be as secure as possible. In order to retain leadership position in many different fields, DSM knew that productivity could not...
- Tags: Environment, BeyondTrust, DSM, Desktop Environment, BeyondTrust Privilege Manager, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software
- Case studies 2007-09-04
- Is getting rid of Vista's UAC prompts worth $30 to you?
- BeyondTrust has unveiled software that will, for $30 a seat, make Vista's UAC prompts disappear.Privilege Manager 3.5 allows companies to run Vista systems with UAC on but eliminate all UAC prompts. It works by applying policies before a UAC dialogue box appears if UAC is on. If UAC is off, policies will...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, BeyondTrust, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2007-08-24
Additional Resources
- Microsoft patches 31 Windows, IE, Office security holes
- Microsoft patches 31 Windows, IE, Office security holesWhat this article doesn't mention...How many of these 31 "security holes" are mitigated by configuring your server the way Microsoft recommends? Beyond trust released a good report based on last year?s stats on Microsoft Vulnerabilities and what percent of vulnerabilities are mitigated...
- Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Patches, security, Print Spooler
- Discussion threads 2009-06-09
- Report: 92% of critical Microsoft vulnerabilities mitigated by Least Privilege accounts
- A recently released report by BeyondTrust entitled "Reducing the Threat from Microsoft Vulnerabilities" indicates that that according to the company's analysis of all the security bulletins Microsoft published in 2008, 92% of the critical vulnerabilities could have been mitigated by the principle of the least privilege. Despite...
- Tags: Web, Administrator, Vulnerability, Malware, Microsoft Corp., Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And Worms, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-02-10
- Evil tech administrators
- Evil tech administratorsEvil Tech Admin'sI've work at a few places where some of the Admin's I worked with were a bit on the sneeky side. So As a admin I made sure there was a back door incase one fo these admins tried to pull the same stunt. Its happened...
- Tags: NETWORKING, Recruitment & Selection, administrator, network
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- Is getting rid of Vista's UAC prompts worth $30 to you?
- Is getting rid of Vista's UAC prompts worth $30 to you?What a great solution......after you have paid $hundreds for your shiney new Vista machine, you find that in order to make it work you need to spend $30 more actually to be able to use it.What were they thinking at...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, UAC, UAC Prompts, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-08-24
- BeyondTrust makes standard user usable in Windows
- BeyondTrust makes standard user usable in WindowsSounds like a similar concept to ...... Novells' AppAmour which can define acceptable behaviour for an application and who to email if someone tries/manages to circumvent it.In other words, in the year 2000 Windows was already archaicOu writes: "The simple reason for this is...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, group policy, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 2000, software
- Discussion threads 2007-03-08
- BeyondTrust makes standard user usable in Windows
- Its a well known fact that almost all IT organizations run their client Windows (typically 2000 or XP) computers in full administrative mode which violates the fundamental security model of least privilege. The simple reason for this is that running Windows 2000 and XP in standard user mode is...
- Tags: Desktop, Infrastructure, Vista, Security
- Blog posts 2007-03-08
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