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Passwordless Administration Explained

Passwordless administration refers to the ability to perform administrative functions on an endpoint without the need for privileged or administrator credentials. Passwordless administration is a simple concept with huge ramifications for securing an organization. The primary goal is to remove administrative rights from any and all users, while still allowing them to execute necessary operating system tasks and use applications that require administrative rights.

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IT Support Tips to Improve Service Experience & Reduce Costs

​IT service desks have more technologies at their disposal than ever to help IT support teams achieve all three of “better, faster, cheaper.” This blog highlights the most powerful feature categories that you should consider adding to your service or help desk to improve performance and realize cross-platform synergies, while minimizing administrative overhead and other costs.

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Picking up Where Microsoft Leaves off with Modern Management, Endpoint & Application Security

With the launch of Windows 10 almost five years ago, Microsoft touted modern management as an approach that drives improved security and nimble IT operations, resulting in happy users and lower cost for organizations. Yet, fully realizing the promised benefits of modern management still remains elusive for most organizations. Simply put, it requires more than Microsoft can deliver.

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New Privileged Attack Vectors Book: Q&A with Author Morey Haber

Today, we are announcing the release of the 2nd edition of the Privileged Attack Vectors book. This completely revised and expanded second edition reflects the significantly changing world of Privileged Access Management (PAM). Read on for a summary of what is covered in the latest edition of the book, followed by an insightful Q&A on the book, cybersecurity and PAM trends, and more with the author himself!

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How Trusted Application Protection Builds on Application Control & Endpoint Privilege Management

Trusted Application Protection (TAP) is a powerful capability of BeyondTrust’s Privilege Management for Windows product. TAP enhances security against malware—including ransomware--and phishing attacks by adding context that stops attack chain tools that may exploit commonly used and legitimate applications. Working together, the BeyondTrust privilege management product’s least privilege, application control, and application protection capabilities give organizations a powerful way to secure users, sessions, and endpoints against a broad array of common and sophisticated attacks to drastically reduce the enterprise threat surface, while always optimizing for end-user productivity. In this blog, I’ll briefly cover how the Trusted Application Protection capability evolved and how it works, and I will also provide some examples, including a short video.

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Living Our Values at BeyondTrust: Turning Words Into Action

The death of George Floyd and resulting protests have recently compelled us to have some very real, very tough conversations about racism in the United States and around the world. At BeyondTrust, we have always stood steadfastly and categorically against any and all forms of discrimination or injustice, and we are absolutely committed to ongoing efforts to affect positive change in our culture, our company, and our communities.

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How to Successfully Adjust to Working from Home (WFH) Full-Time: Top Tips from a Seasoned Remote Worker & Road Warrior

​I have been a remote, home worker for over 20 years and a road warrior for even longer. In fact, prior to the COVID-19 virus outbreak, I averaged around 200 hotel nights per year. My time on the road easily outstripped my time at home. In this blog, I will share my simple, best, broadly applicable recommendations to help those relatively new to working from home so they can be successful too.

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Raising the Bar on Government Endpoint Security

The sudden transition to telework has caused many agency IT managers to rethink how to secure networks, as they implement policies and tools to protect employees working from home. Recently, we explored the remote access security and technology challenges brought to the forefront by COVID-19 in our blog, Remote Access for the Public Sector: Agencies Must Get this Right. In this blog, we’re going to focus on a need that is only getting more urgent with the growing number and diversity of devices connecting to public sector networks—the management of endpoint privileges, which is a central piece of modern endpoint security.

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BeyondTrust Wins SBR Excellence Award for Cloud Vault Innovation that Enhances Remote Access Security

​We are thrilled to announce that BeyondTrust’s Cloud Vault has been recognized as a Winner of the Singapore Business Review Technology Excellence Awards 2020 . This prestigious awards program, coordinated by the SBR, annually recognizes the most highly innovative companies leading the technological revolution across Singapore and helping to boost the nation’s fast-growing economy.

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June 2020 Patch Tuesday

This month Microsoft patched 129 vulnerabilities, 12 of which are rated “Critical” by Microsoft. None of the vulnerabilities have been exploited in the wild. Adobe has also released a patch for Adobe Flash Player to fix a “Critical” rated remote code execution vulnerability.

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Reused Security Questions can Pose a High Risk: Learn Tips & Tricks to Mitigate the Threat

​Every individual who has online accounts to access services or applications invariably has had to establish answers to security questions. The purpose of these questions is to periodically re-affirm our identity, or to regain access if we forget our password, by providing our answers. The problem with these security questions (and with our answers) is that they become a liability when the results are leaked online, such as through a data breach, or become public knowledge. Why? Because many (in fact, thousands) of sites potentially use identical security questions.

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