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White Papers
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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. In this paper, EMA analysts examine BeyondTrust PowerBroker, a comprehensive solution designed to close these gaps for the enterprise with provable control.
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Building a Secure and Compliant Windows Desktop
This white paper presents the benefits of removing administrator rights from end users, the combination of technologies needed for effective implementation of this level of security, and how to best remove the local Administrator account, while maintaining the users’ access to all applications.
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Controlling, Delegating, Logging and Auditing Unix-Linux Root Actions
This white paper discusses the use of PowerBroker software to address some of the security and audit problems inherent in native Unix and Linux operating systems. It will demonstrate the value of PowerBroker as a tool for eliminating or reducing risk in environments where information security and risk avoidance are considered important.
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From Trust to Process: Closing the Risk Gap in Privileged Access Control
In this whitepaper, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) examines this critical issue in IT security administration in light of the BeyondTrust approach to helping businesses move from a trust-based system to a secure, auditable process in order to provide a higher standard of control and better support for regulatory compliance.
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Fulfilling Compliance by Eliminating Administrator Rights
The widespread distribution of administrator rights in an IT infrastructure can be the source of major findings during a company’s regular compliance audit. Due to the issues with application design and intra-office politics, many IT organizations find themselves forced to distribute administrator rights to non-administrative personnel. Yet, this expansion of privileges can result in a drain on resources, an increased level of problems, and ultimately a less secure environment.
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Research Reports
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BeyondTrust 2009 Microsoft Vulnerability Analysis
This BeyondTrust study reports on all vulnerabilities published in Microsoft’s 2009 Security Bulletins that are mitigated by configuring users to operate without administrator rights. It also examines the latest major Microsoft releases—Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8. The results show that companies can greatly reduce risk, experience greater protection from zero-day threats and reduce the threat from vulnerabilities by removing administrator rights.
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