Control Access and Reduce Risk
In my last blog I discussed bringing the NOC and SOC closer together, providing IT Operations with tools that improve security. This week I’ll go into more specifics of the solution and show how PowerBroker for Windows is used by both IT Operations and Security Operations teams. The Challenge Supporting a security principle such as…
Think You’re Safe from Internal Threats? The NSA Breach Will Make You Think Twice.
When reading a recent article in the USA Today about how Edward Snowden, a former Booz Allen Hamilton employee and NSA contractor, was able to steal sensitive data via non-specific vectors, I was reminded of the illusion that threats are predominately external to organizations. Even though we might not know exactly how Snowden was able to…
June 2013 Patch Tuesday
It’s halfway through the year and we are seeing the total bulletin count creep just past fifty. This month, Microsoft is providing patches for Internet Explorer, the Windows kernel (and kernel-mode drivers), Windows print spooler components, and Microsoft Office. There are five bulletins in total, comprised of 1 critical (Internet Explorer) bulletin and the remaining…
Our Newest Product Release: PowerBroker for Windows 6.0
We’re very excited to announce the release of PowerBroker for Windows 6.0, the industry’s first identity management solution able to leverage least privilege and vulnerability data scanned by the award winning Retina CS Threat Management Console. This allows our customers to take a system’s overall risk into context when deciding what level of privileges a user or…
Advanced Architectures with the Retina Protection Agent
One of the extended features of Retina CS is the Retina Protection Agent. This component is licensed with Retina and allows for users to assess hosts for vulnerabilities using a local scanning agent verses a network scan. This forgoes the need of a traditional SaaS or on-premise vulnerability assessment solution to perform a scan outside…
PowerBroker for Windows Policy Through Retina CS Web Services
PowerBroker for Windows has traditionally relied on Active Directory Group Policy to populate assets with the latest rules and policies. The technology also contains a utility for managing off-line systems called PBDeploy and has met the challenges for many organizations when a domain is not available for authentication. With the growing number of portable Windows…
Did you know? – Native tool integration
Did you know about the native tool integration feature in the PowerBroker Management Suite? PowerBroker solution functionality is available through the native Microsoft administration tools referred to as Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT). These are the tools that administrators use on a day to day basis to manage their environment. What is it? – It’s…
Do you want to do this the “hard” way?
Too often I see people working on what they can fix, what is easy. It’s like when I exercise, if I see progress I keep working at it but the problem areas (there are a lot of them) can wait until tomorrow. Over the past several years I see organizations doing a better job with…
The Integrity of Files and Privileged Identity Management
The concept of privilege identity management allows for the elevation of applications and operating system functions to authoritative users based on rules and policies. While the basic context of the user does not have permissions to perform these tasks, the rules and policies in place provide a vehicle for them to operate in a privileged…
Session Monitoring Provides Context Aware Security for Windows
The Windows world is about to get a long overdue lesson from Unix. Privilege Identity Management does not stop at just logging that an application gets launched with elevated privileges; administrators need to know what the user does with that application, as well. Did they use the program within the guidelines of company policy or…
