Posts Tagged ‘windows’
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…
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…
Tech Tip: PowerBroker for Windows 6.0 Sneak Peek
Have you ever wanted to see what activities someone has performed inside one of your line-of-business apps for troubleshooting purposes? Maybe you just want to monitor what activities a network administrator performed on your Exchange Server to track down a configuration change. Well, we’ve got an exciting new feature in the upcoming release of PowerBroker…
Creating a Gold Image SCAP Template for Windows
One of the challenges of Benchmark Configuration management is creating or modifying SCAP OVAL content to match your business policies and requirements. The following procedure is recommended to create custom Windows benchmarks for the Retina Network Security Scanner and Retina CS via local system policy, Local GPO, and Microsoft Security and Compliance Manager. For starters,…
Media Coverage Roundup | BeyondTrust Acquires Blackbird Group
Today we announced the acquisition of Blackbird Group, a leader in Windows system management. With this addition, BeyondTrust furthers our vision to simplify IT security operations management, while providing customers much-needed context to improve decision-making to protect against both internal and external security threats. We’re happy to welcome the Blackbird Group! Read the official announcement now….
PowerBroker for Windows, Best Known Secrets – Collections
One of the best-known secrets about PowerBroker for Windows is the ability to logically group rules into Collections. This Best Practice allows you to organize rules based on almost any criteria and treat multiple rules as a single entity. This feature is most useful when: Rules require the same item-level targeting Organizing rules into physical…
Mmm, Smells Like 0day
Just when you thought we were out of the woods, Internet Explorer 0day shows up, in the wild. Here’s what you need to know about the vulnerability: Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8, and 9 are vulnerable (UPDATE: Out-of-band patch available now!) Use-after-free when the CMshtmlEd object is deleted and then the same area in memory…
