Introduction

It becomes a challenge when trying to implement least privilege access for employee workstations. Employees may have too much admin control over their workstations having unintended consequences. Examples of this can result in removing security protections, application having unnecessary privileged access, or malicious actors impersonating your users. 

Understanding how to administer which applications can run as a local admin without giving the users local admin rights can be challenging. With Elevation Control you can implement a least-privileged approach to your cybersecurity strategy.

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What is Elevation Control?

Elevation Control allows a standard user to run specific applications with local admin privileges without ever having that unnecessary privilege as the user. Elevation Control gives you the ability to review all applications and set privilege controls for each application. With the policy controls in place, a user can run the software as a local admin without providing admin credentials. Users can on request be granted elevate of application permissions if required. Elevation Control allows IT administrators to perform administrative tasks on workstations, without the need to enter administrative credentials. This eliminates the possibility of admin credential theft and used against your network.

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Why is Elevation Control Important?

Elevation Control is vital to your cyber security strategy in more ways than one. When users have local admin privileges, they have the power to do almost anything they want on their workstation. Local admin privileges give a user complete control over their workstation, installing and running any application with unnecessary privileges. They can even undo any security protections that IT administrators have put in place. An attacker who has gained access to a user’s workstation with local admin privileges can impersonate other logged-on users, or use tool to exploit their access into the entire network. By removing excessive privileges, you reduce your risk of any vulnerabilities being exploited, users will not have sufficient privileges that can be exploited.All of this adds an extra layer of security while maintaining productivity int he workplace.

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Conclusion

Elevation Control is one of the components to a layer of security that is required, to strengthen your defences and remotely control applications permissions. Mitigate the risk of admin credential theft, implement a solution to elevate application access in a controlled secure manner.

Personos can help you implement Elevation Control as part of the Endpoint Privilege and Application Control management solution , please contact us for more information.

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