Avecto, the leader in Windows privilege management, today
revealed details of two key customers using Privilege Guard to
reduce management costs and improve security. Demonstrating the
benefits that Avecto provides to enterprises, these organizations
are leveraging Privilege Guard to simplify Windows desktop
migrations and overcome diverse user requirements and problem
applications to improve desktop security.
Supporting Desktop Upgrade and Future-Proofing Windows 7
Roll-out
Shop Direct Group is the UK's leading online and home shopping
retailer, with an estimated five million customers and annual sales
of around £1.7 billion. Shop Direct's IT team embarked on a major
multi-year project to migrate all of its desktops from Windows 2000
to Windows Vista, with a medium-term plan to transition to Windows
7. As part of this initiative, Shop Direct determined that removing
admin rights from Windows users using Privilege Guard would
catapult their business forward to achieving a more effective and
efficient desktop structure.
The ultimate objective is to migrate to Windows 7 and knowing
Privilege Guard supports the latest Windows desktop operating
system was very reassuring for them. "The overall IT infrastructure
of our business is now future-proofed," says Shop Direct. As a
result of removing admin rights, the group is already seeing
positive changes as staff embrace the new desktop, which is
expected to help grow the business further. The IT team is also
better able to solve desktop user problems quickly and easily and
the manageability of their remote users has improved
substantially.
Addressing Diverse User Requirements and Problem Applications
to Enable Least Privilege
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in
the world. They recognized that because of the large number of
users who required elevated permissions to perform specific tasks,
user admin rights posed a real risk to their business as it left
their desktops vulnerable to malware and unauthorized configuration
changes.
OUP was updating desktop operating systems from Windows XP to
Vista and are now transitioning to Windows 7. As part of this
process, OUP realized that it could mitigate security
vulnerabilities and improve overall desktop management by removing
admin rights from all users with Privilege Guard.
"Implementing the Privilege Guard solution was seamless and
completely transparent and has given my team a greater degree of
control over our desktop users," said Gavin Wilson, senior support
analyst at OUP. "Avecto have provided us with excellent support,
not just for the product, but they have gone beyond implementation
and given us some of the best advice we have ever experienced. We
are confident we made the right decision in choosing them to help
roll out our least privilege strategy."
OUP efficiently completed the strategic task of reducing malware
threats to its business by leveraging Privilege Guard to implement
a policy of least privilege. As a result, the organization has now
streamlined desktop infrastructure support and improved the overall
end-user experience.
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"Organizations across industries are recognizing the benefits of
enterprise privilege management on their Windows systems," said
Tony Bolland, CEO of Avecto. "Avecto provides these businesses with
the solution they need to empower their Windows desktop and server
users to perform their job functions without compromising the
integrity and security of the systems. We are committed to helping
organizations worldwide realize the value of least privilege
through the industry's most comprehensive solution."
