Nobody likes to be restricted in their use of a computer, or think they are being limited because they don’t have administrator rights. Most users do not NEED administrator privileges, they just WANT them. So why do users want administrator privileges? Here are the top 5 reasons:
The reasons listed above may or may not be good reasons for the desire of users to keep administrator rights. However, administrator rights are a huge threat to IT security. Users may think that if they lose administrator privileges that their lives will become harder, but this is not the case. If privilege management is implemented the right way, users will be able to continue to work as before and will most likely not even notice the change. So how do you implement privilege management successfully? It’s really a two-step process, requiring knowledge of what applications will need administrator rights to work correctly and which users have administrator rights. After that knowledge is obtained companies create application privilege management policies for applications that need admin rights. Then companies remove administrator privileges from their users by using user privilege management software. It’s that easy. Arellia Application Control Solution and Local Security Solution assist businesses concerned with security protect their assets from security threats, mitigate zero-day vulnerabilities, control system stability, and enforce software compliance by using application and user privilege management capabilities.