White Papers

  • Cloud Computing

    • A Data Centers Journey into the Cloud

      This white paper discusses the drivers for data centers moving to the cloud, the role of virtualization in both public and private cloud infrastructures and outlines the security and compliance implications of cloud computing - providing insight into the protection of sensitive data in the cloud via administrative access and privileged delegation.
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    • Securing Privilege Delegation in Public and Private Cloud Computing Infrastructures

      This white paper discusses the drivers for data centers moving to the cloud, the role of virtualization in both public and private cloud infrastructures and outlines the security and compliance implications of cloud computing - providing insight into the protection of sensitive data in the cloud via administrative access and privileged delegation.
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  • Privilege Identity Management (PIM)

    • IDC Vendor Profile Profiles BeyondTrust

      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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    • Challenges of Managing Privileged Access

      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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    • Compelling Reasons for Least Privilege

      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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    • Privilege. Made Simple - Privilege Identity Management (PIM) Demystified

      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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    • Privileged Access Life-Cycle Management How PALM Enables Security, Compliance, and Efficiency 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 examines the role of Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions in addressing these needs and specifically looks at the role Privileged Access Life-Cycle Management (PALM) can play in helping heterogeneous organizations proactively refine their strategies regarding privileged access management controls, cross-platform monitoring, and automated workflow capabilities. This paper also examines the role that BeyondTrust, formerly Symark International, has in the market for PALM solutions.
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  • PowerBroker Servers

    • Achieve True Principle of Least Privilege for Server Administration in Microsoft Environments

      As Windows grew to fill roles in larger networks, both the OS and the server products built upon it did not always evolve to include more granular permission structures for administrators. The result has been an industry that, in general, relies on fully-privileged administrator accounts to accomplish even minor administrative tasks. We know it is a poor practice, but what else can we do? This white paper explores several different events and technologies which are converging to provide an exciting new opportunity for enterprises to meet least privilege.
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    • Improving Efficiency in IT Administration via Automated Policy Workflows in UNIX/Linux

      This white paper highlights recommended steps to successfully implement automated policy management processes within UNIX/Linux systems using the privileged access lifecycle management framework. Lastly, we will focus on PSMC, the unifying platform solution to centralize policies, reporting and workflow engines, and deliver higher manageability, security and compliance capabilities.
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    • BeyondTrust 2010 sudo Vulnerability Analysis

      This BeyondTrust report investigates all vulnerabilities published by The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) sudo Security Bulletins. It reports on vulnerabilities that are mitigated by configuring users to operate without the root password to UNIX and Linux operating systems. The results show that despite unpredictable and evolving attacks, companies can greatly reduce risks and threats from a myriad of security vulnerabilities by withholding root access from IT staff.
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    • How PowerBroker Password Safe® Supports HIPAA Compliance

      This document explains how PowerBroker Password Safe, a hardened appliance that provides secure storage and access for administrative passwords and encryption keys and certificates can help organizations comply with the HIPAA Final Security Rule.
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    • How Secure is your sudo

      This white paper will illustrate certain positive situations where open source solutions like sudo often work in smaller scale enterprises. However, this white paper will also spotlight red flags that relate to larger companies or companies experiencing significant IT growth.
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    • BeyondTrust PowerBroker 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. Without putting more effective controls on high-privilege access such as UNIX or Linux root account, enterprises not only expose the most business-critical IT assets to the most fundamental level of risk, they also expose trustworthy administrators to the consequences of privilege abuse by others. Commodity tools such as sudo often have gaps in the level of control, scalability and support the enterprise realistically needs. In this paper, ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES® (EMA™) analysts examine BeyondTrust PowerBroker, a more comprehensive solution designed to close these gaps for the enterprise with provable control.
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    • The Pursuit of a Standardized Solution for Secure Enterprise RBAC

      Using PowerBroker Servers to implement role-based access control allows an organization to efficiently deploy key security and compliance requirements not always found in operating system (OS) RBAC implementations, including separation of duties and audit trails.
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    • 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.
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    • Meeting the Access Security Requirements Of Sec 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in a Heterogeneous UNIX/Linux Environment

      This document addresses how an organization can use BeyondTrust’s Identity and Access Management solutions (IAM) for UNIX/Linux to meet and demonstrate compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Sec 404 requirements for effectiveness of internal controls and financial reporting requirements.
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    • Passing UNIX/Linux Audits and Meeting Regulatory Compliance

      This white paper explains why the design of UNIX and Linux systems prevents them from passing today's security and compliance audits, and how BeyondTrust PowerBroker can bring these systems into compliance with multiple mandates, such as PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard), the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and the Gramm-Leach Bliley Act (GLBA).
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    • Using PowerBroker Servers for Compliance with the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act

      This paper explains how PowerBroker Servers supports compliance with the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999 (GLBA), protecting consumers' non-public personal information (NPI) on Unix and Linux systems.
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    • sudo Security Risk - sudo Security Issues - Unix/Linux Security Issues

      Though not publicized or romanticized by the Information Technology community, Unix/Linux OS users have passionately embraced either implementing open source privileged identity management solutions (i.e., sudo), commercial solutions that are more user friendly, or not implementing anything at all. Though highly disputed, the fact of the matter is that both solution-types do work and both bring high-value depending upon the IT environment that it is managing.
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    • Successfully Securing the Open Source Enterprise Privileged User Management in Linux Environments

      Linux mastermind Sander van Vugt gives an overview of the current options that are available in the Linux operating system and discusses some features that can cause potential problems in modern enterprise environments. He gives his perspective on Linux and how it has evolved through the years and discusses performing administrative tasks at length, including the benefits and disadvantages of using su, policykit and sudo for admin delegation.
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  • PowerBroker Desktops

    • Endpoint Security Redefined

      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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    • The Intelligent Data Loss Prevention

      Insiders, employees and contractors who have authorized access to confidential data are liable for 70 percent of total data leaks. The importance of data security has evolved several IT product categories, particularly Data Loss Prevention (DLP).
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    • Windows Endpoint Security is Least Privilege and Data Loss Prevention

      Derek Melber (MCSE, MVP)
      The network that we manage and work in today is much different from the network we worked with even 10 years ago. Technology, hardware, and software have become more advanced. Unfortunately, so have viruses, malware, spyware, and end-users. With the influx of successful attacks on corporate networks, not to mention the theft and publication of intellectual property, the need for endpoint security is now at an all time high. The old school philosophy of protecting the endpoint with a perimeter firewall and written security policy is no longer valid. To protect endpoints for the typical corporate network today you need to have a more sophisticated approach.
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    • AppLocker and PBWD

      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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    • Extending the Value of Group Policy Securely & Effectively

      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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    • Reducing the Threat from Microsoft Vulnerabilities

      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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    • Goldie Locks and the Three Least Privileged Desktops eBook

      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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    • From Least Privilege to Best Privilege on your Windows® Desktops

      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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    • Building a Secure and Compliant Windows Desktop

      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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    • Least Privilege Application Compatibility for Windows 7 Migrations

      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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    • Applying the Principle of Least Privilege Across the Enterprise

      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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    • Fulfilling Compliance by Eliminating Admin Rights

      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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    • BeyondTrust 2010 Microsoft Vulnerability Analysis

      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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