As more and more organizations migrate to Windows 7, balancing improved security with end-user expectations is now a key challenge.
Avecto Ltd, the leader in Windows privilege management, today announced the latest feature enhancements to its award winning Privilege Guard technology.
“With Privilege Guard 2.8, we have added a number of security enhancements, such as the ability to digitally sign policies and an intelligent anti-tamper mechanism that can distinguish between elevated processes and true system administrators,” said Mark Austin, CTO at Avecto. “These security enhancements, together with a number of usability improvements, demonstrate Avecto’s continued leadership in the Windows Privilege Management space. Privilege Guard is trusted by many of world’s largest and most demanding organizations, especially in respect to system security.”
This latest version of Privilege Guard enables organizations to implement a greater degree of control and flexibility into managing system security and end user expectations.
Key enchancements include:
- Ability to sign Privilege Guard policies with digital certificates, ensuring the integrity of deployed policies across the enterprise.
- An intelligent anti-tamper mechanism that can distinguish between elevated processes and real system administrators.
- Extended custom access tokens with configurable process access rights and token ownership.
- Enhanced end user messaging, which can now include a custom hyperlink to provide additional support or help desk integration.
- Improved application group management, with inline search and filtering.
- Optimizations to the reporting console to provide fast load times when handling millions of events.
“Customers who choose Privilege Guard to help them improve their Windows desktop security will quickly see efficiency gains across their business. For us, implementing Avecto’s Privilege Guard solution was seamless and completely transparent, and it has given my team a greater degree of control over our desktop users,” says Gavin Wilson, Senior Support Analyst at Oxford University Press.