Viewfinity Achieves High Ratings in In-Depth Review of Its Privilege Management Product

October 25, 2010

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Viewfinity Privilege Management a Must Have for Regulatory Compliance While Removing Complexity

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Viewfinity (www.viewfinity.com), the innovator of privilege management solutions, today announced that its Privilege Management solution achieved high ratings in an independent product review of its solution that provides privilege management and role-based account access control for desktops, laptops and Windows servers.

In his in-depth review of Viewfinity Privilege Management, Frank Ohlhorst stated, “I took Viewfinity through its paces to see if the product offers real value to the corporate IT security manager and I was not disappointed. Viewfinity offers all of the key elements that are needed to successfully control privileges across endpoints on a network.” “…Viewfinity offers a plethora of policy controls that can be combined, grouped and assigned in multiple fashions. That level of flexibility allows administrators to create complex policies that span several administrative privileges on a PC. That bodes well for those trying to meet regulatory compliance requirements, such as HIPAA, FDCC, PCI or the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which encompass access controls and the control of sensitive information.”

“Frank Ohlhorst is a well-known and highly reputable technology reviewer and is known for running one of the most comprehensive testing programs in the industry,” said Leonid Shtilman, Co-founder and CEO of Viewfinity. “The results from the thorough testing that Frank performed on our Privilege Management solution prove our commitment to offer solid technology that provide answers to the very real problems that businesses face today around compliance, security, auditing and reporting.”

Tailored specifically for managing least privilege environments, Viewfinity Privilege Management offers IT Administrators a flexible approach for controlling its corporate desktop, laptop and server environments. Select highlights from the review include:

“I found that Viewfinity offers an easy-to-use, Web-based management console, which is laid out in dashboard fashion. …if I wanted to control administrative privileges for a group of PCs or users, I could simply select from the 'Policies' menu and then select 'Create policy,' which would offer me some choices, such as 'Elevate privileges,' 'Application policy' or 'Computer policy.'”
“The rule selection can get very granular, allowing administrators to fine-tune access and control policies.”
“Let's say it is an application that uses an ActiveX control—normally, you may want to lock down access to that control to prevent a breach. 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 also offers comprehensive auditing reporting, which lets administrators create full audit reports identifying who has what privileges. Auditing goes one step further to record activity, access attempts and dependencies required by applications and processes."
“For administrators, leaving things open may be easier, but it is an invitation to a security breach. Therein lies the biggest value of Viewfinity, which offers an effective methodology for locking down PCs and servers, without creating an administrative nightmare.”

For the complete product review, please visit http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Viewfinity-Takes-the-Pain-out-of-Privilege-Management-720233/. Also be sure to attend one of Viewfinity’s live webcasts on Windows 7 Migrations and PC Lockdown with Privilege Management and other topics (registration may be carried out on the company's Web site at http://www.viewfinity.com/Resources/Webcasts.aspx).

About Viewfinity

Viewfinity provides privilege management and role-based account access control for desktops, laptops and Windows servers. We empower enterprises to meet compliance mandates, reduce security risks, and lower IT costs. Viewfinity introduces granularity to desktop permissions and privileged access management by offering solutions to manage and control least management rights based upon segregation of responsibilities.

Viewfinity provides IT security and operations with identity access and intelligence via compliance validation reporting and privileged account activity auditing. Viewfinity solves IT’s greatest headache—management of mobile workers—through its web-hosted model by providing absolute network independence, eliminating reliance on corporate network connectivity or VPN. For more information, visit www.viewfinity.com.