BeyondTrust Announces PowerBroker Servers Windows Edition

A major player in privilege authorization management, access control and security solutions, BeyondTrust has introduced the industry's first privileged identity management solution for Microsoft (News - Alert) Windows-based servers.

The newly announced PowerBroker Servers Windows Edition will offer full protection from potential misuse or abuse outside the job responsibilities and specified tasks of users.

In a press release, John Mutch, CEO at BeyondTrust, said: "Historically, Microsoft has delivered closed user interfaces and complex management protocols making it incredibly challenging for enterprises to implement the least privilege approach. PowerBroker Servers Windows Edition helps organizations overcome this obstacle by providing effective least privilege capabilities for Microsoft environments to minimize the risk of rogue administrators and to fulfill compliance driven auditing requirements."

Leveraging Microsoft PowerShell, the emerging standard for contemporary Windows server administration, PowerBroker Servers Windows Edition will help improve both security and auditing within organizations.

Officials said that PowerBroker Servers Windows Edition introduces a rich-feature set that enables policy controls to minimize the risk of rogue administrators by delivering the fine-grain controls companies need to get the most from the PowerShell technology. Additionally, it also offers augmented event logs, logging all actions that were performed with elevated privilege as well as by whom they were performed.

The audit trial together with the safe partitioning of full administrative privilege will provide an extremely secure means of controlling administrative access to Microsoft-based servers and applications, meeting compliance driven auditing requirements for regulated industries.

Don Jones, one of the world's leading experts on the Microsoft business technology platform, said: "By intercepting all PowerShell traffic, BeyondTrust becomes a security gate. The solution can be configured with detailed Windows server and application permissions and it also creates the most detailed-possible log of all administrative activity."