Manchester (UK) and Boston (US): Avecto, the leader in Windows privilege management, this week launched the latest version of their award winning Privilege Guard solution.
“At its core, Privilege Guard helps organizations resolve three key challenges - it strengthens their security posture, reduces operational costs and helps them achieve compliance,”
explains Mark Austin, Avecto’s co-founder and chief technology officer. “The workforce’s ability to function effectively has a direct impact on an organization’s productivity, yet users’ actions directly affect enterprise security. Too restrictive and support costs spiral, too lax and support is of least concern. The functionality we’ve introduced in Privilege Guard 3.5 makes it even easier for organizations to strike that perfect balance.”
With Privilege Guard all users operate under a standard user account and privileges are assigned directly to the applications that require them. Privilege Guard 3.5 introduces a number of unique features, which now make it even easier for organizations to introduce scalable, adaptive privilege management, with an unparalleled end user experience and enterprise class reporting.
“Compliance requirements and security concerns remain the primary impetuses for the expanding implementation of Windows privilege management. As organizations begin to apply a set of policies to how privileges are controlled and distributed in order to facilitate normal business processes, the platform coverage of those policies as well as the degree to which they are automated emerge as governance and operational issues. Alongside reporting tools that allow organizations to better quantify and benchmark privileged accounts under management, Avecto has developed deeper hooks into the Windows operating system, and built a set of filters to apply policies in a more automated fashion.” Says Steve Coplan, Research Manager at 451 Research.
From a commercial perspective, Andy Bristow, World Wide Director of HP Enterprise Security Services, says "Avecto’s Privilege Guard is an important part of the HP ESS Identity and Access Management security portfolio. Privilege Guard is used by our customers to bolster the security of Windows based systems, achieve compliance and improve operational effectiveness. The latest enhancements in v3.5 have raised the bar in terms of managing both external and insider threats, delivering enterprises the ability to implement more intuitive and flexible security measures. Avecto listened and responded to customer requirements and this latest version really sets their technology apart from other offerings available in the market today. Combined with HP ESS implementation and support services, we are able to deliver solutions globally that enables customers to implement a least privilege, least risk and least cost environment.