BeyondTrust Application Rights Auditor makes it easy for companies to identify the Windows applications that require users to have administrative rights in order to run. Once those applications are identified, enterprises can develop informed plans to remove users’ administrative rights without any application downtime, creating a more secure and compliant environment, and lowering the cost of administering Windows computers.
Allowing employees to operate computers with elevated privileges makes companies more susceptible to malicious users and viruses, and prevents compliance with regulatory mandates, such as the Federal Desktop Core Configuration, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and HIPAA. Administrative rights also allow users to circumvent security policies, install unauthorized applications and make unauthorized modifications to a standard desktop configuration.
Discover Which Applications Require Admin Privileges
Until Application Rights Auditor, the only way to determine which applications required users to have administrative rights was to take the rights away from every user and see which applications broke, or to examine every installed application one at a time.
Application Rights Auditor consists of a Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in and a desktop component. The desktop component is installed on multiple computers to transparently examine applications during execution and to send encrypted log files to a secure server. All application executions are automatically monitored. Centralized reports are configured and viewed within the MMC.
Key Benefits of BeyondTrust Application Rights Auditor:
- Discover the applications that require users to have administrative rights
- Determine the scope of a project to remove administrative rights
- Easy to install – requires no new infrastructure & view reports in MMC
- The product is available for free
System Requirements
BeyondTrust Application Rights Auditor supports Windows 2000, XP, and Vista, Windows Server 2003 and 2008, and 64-bit
Windows platforms.
