This white paper discusses how Endpoint security is now redefined to include privilege management, application whitelisting, and data protection. These are essential components that must be added to the AV and firewall solutions for every endpoint.
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AppLocker, which was introduced in Windows 7, provides powerful technology for controlling application execution for enterprises. By implementing AppLocker policy, organizations can better control what applications can install and run on desktops via White Lists and Black Lists, improving security and reducing the risk that malware poses.
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In this whitepaper, Microsoft Group Policy MVP, Darren Mar-Elia, expertly discusses the capabilities of Group Policy with respect to security configuration, including a number of new features introduced in Windows 7 & Server 2008-R2; how policy gets delivered and the tattooing nature of security settings; the free Microsoft Security Compliance Manager tool and how it can help you define security baselines based on best-practice templates that can be exported to live GPOs; the challenges of using Group Policy as a security compliance solution, including some best practices; and how 3rd parties are leveraging and extending Group Policy as a tool for delivering new Windows security features.
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Virtually every organization is being compelled to improve client security. Auditors, regulators and business unit owners all recognize the threat unsecured desktops pose, and understand the need to comply with the myriad of regulatory and governance issues that make today’s headlines. While removing administrator rights from end users may be the Holy Grail of desktop security, doing so can have an impact on the everyday activities an end user needs to do for their job. Read this white paper to discover powerful strategies to effectively remove administrator rights and improve desktop security.
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There’s a problem with the widespread distribution of administrator rights in your organization, and it has nothing to do with security. That problem is compliance: Compliance with the industry, governmental, and regulatory statutes that define certain configurations within your IT infrastructure. Although many of those configurations are mandated to enforce a greater level of security control, your job as IT professional is to ensure their fulfillment.
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This white paper discusses the goals and challenges of creating a privileged access management program for your Windows desktops and servers in an enterprise environment. Privileged access is a key issue these days, especially on desktops, for which an over-privileged user can be a weapon of destruction on your internal network if they inadvertently download and install malware.
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In an effort to improve business security, compliance and productivity, privilege authorization policies must be redesigned and user permissions for more granularly managed. Yet Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions have remained largely unchanged. Traditional solutions account for a significant part of the total cost of IAM, a staggering amount when you consider that these solutions fail to control superuser access to critical servers and fail to enable desktop users to effectively perform their job.
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When users login to their computers with local administrator privileges, they greatly increase the risk of security breaches by viruses, malware and malicious users. By removing administrative privileges and implementing the security best practice of Least Privilege, these threats can be avoided and network security increased. However, when managing a least privilege computing environment systems must not only be locked down, but also still allow end users to perform all necessary tasks for their jobs. This paper presents several least privilege implementation options.
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This BeyondTrust Report investigates all vulnerabilities published in Microsoft’s 2008 Security Bulletins and reports on vulnerabilities that are mitigated by configuring users to operate without administrator rights. The results show that companies can reduce the threat from Microsoft vulnerabilities, experience greater protection from zero-day threats and reduce risk by removing administrator rights.
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This paper will provide information on what you need to know to make decisions on why and how to create secure desktops by implementing the security best practice of least privilege.
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This paper will give you an overview of the new technologies built into Windows 7 and how those technologies can help you in your migration. We will also surface some of the confusion around what those technologies mean from a security perspective, especially when removing administrative privileges from your users.
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This BeyondTrust report investigates all vulnerabilities published in Microsoft’s 2010 Security Bulletins, as well as all of the published Windows 7 vulnerabilities to date. It reports on vulnerabilities that are mitigated by configuring users to operate without administrator rights and examines the latest major Microsoft releases, including Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8.
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These seemingly incongruous needs often come to a head on the Windows desktop, which is the main entry point for the user into an enterprise network. In this whitepaper, I’ll examine this age-old struggle and help you understand how you can find the right balance with something I call “Best Privilege.”
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This white paper discusses the best practice strategies enterprises can use to move a user to a least privilege environment, where they do not have local administrative privileges. By implementing least privilege, your enterprise can save money in many different ways, not to mention downtime, helpdesk cycles, and loss of money due to incorrect desktop configurations performed by the user. In fact, implementing a least privilege desktop environment for every user in your organization can save more than $1200 per desktop per year!
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Curious about how least privilege applies to you and your organization? Let Goldie Locks show you in this new eBook written by Microsoft MVP Derek Melber. In the story, Goldie Locks plays the role of a recent college graduate, with degrees in marketing and multimedia communications, who is just starting her position in marketing for a mid-sized IT company.
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This IDC Vendor Profile profiles BeyondTrust, a market leader in the Privileged Identity Management (PIM) space. In this Vendor Profile, IDC defines the market drivers for PIM technology and outlines the BeyondTrust approach to solving this issue for both enterprise and government entities.
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