Avecto allows adhering to PoLP, while allowing our users to manage most common tasks and applications. It allows our users the flexibility needed to perform their daily duties without calling the helpdesk, while ensuring compliance with security standards.

Avecto is a company that specializes in privilege management. For instance, its remote PowerShell Control feature provides system administrators secure management over remote desktops and servers, while ensuring that admins are restricted to running only authorized remote administration tasks.

BeyondTrust Privilege Management elevates privileges to known, trusted applications that require them, controls application usage, and logs and reports on privileged activities using security tools already in place. Provide users enough endpoint privileges to complete their tasks, but nothing more.

Endpoint privilege management is the process of allowing your employees enough access to remain productive in their roles, without giving them full administrator rights over your IT system. With EPM, organizations can remove local admin access with minimal impact on end users.

CyberArk Endpoint Privilege Manager (EPM) helps to remove the barriers to enforcing least privilege and allows organizations to block and contain attacks at the endpoint, reducing the risk of information being stolen or encrypted and held for ransom.

Privilege Manager for Windows is a ‘sudo for Windows’ solution that fortifies control and security of admin accounts on Windows systems. This enables you to control the elevated permissions for desktop users as part of your organization’s endpoint privilege management program.

The Privilege Guard solution provides organizations with a fully auditable environment, where users log on with standard user accounts, and privileges are only assigned to the applications that actually require them, based on policy settings.

CrowdStrike is an agent-based sensor that can be installed on Windows, Mac, or Linux operating systems for desktop or server platforms. These platforms rely on a cloud-hosted SaaS Solution, to manage policies, control reporting data, manage, and respond to threats.

The Viewfinity solution operates with a single agent on the endpoint that handles privilege management and application control, using a kernel-based architecture that provides deep forensics and detection capabilities.

Viewfinity is a suite of integrated management tools that simplify the processes involved in privilege management, enabling administrators to more effectively protect PCs from unauthorized use and providing granular control over who can do what on servers and endpoints across the enterprise.

With Viewfinity, you can grant temporary privileges to the application, allowing access to the normally locked-down ActiveX control, so the application can function properly, while the level of security remains high.

Viewfinity uses a client/server approach to policy distribution and control. The Viewfinity operations and management engine runs on a central server, while managed endpoints use a small client application to communicate with the server and receive policy updates to control privileges.

I tested the version of the Viewfinity software that’s based in the public cloud. Once you’ve established yourself with Viewfinity, the next step is to download the first agent onto a Windows computer. Viewfinity supports both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows.