Local Administrator Management

Reduce the amount of local administrators in your organisation and ensure compliance with the ScriptingIT Local Administrator Management solution.

Benefits include:

• detailed auditing and reporting
• centralised management
• granular security control

In 2011, the Australian DSD released it's top 35 cyber security mitigation strategies, of which securing local administrator accounts was listed as #3.

"At least 85% of the targeted cyber intrusions that the Defence Signals Directorate (DSD) responded to in 2010 could have been prevented by following the first four mitigation strategies listed in our Top 35 Mitigation Strategies:

• patch applications such as PDF readers, Microsoft Office, Java, Flash Player and web browsers
• patch operating system vulnerabilities
• minimise the number of users with administrative privileges
• use application whitelisting to help prevent malicious software and other unapproved programs from running."

Source: http://www.dsd.gov.au/infosec/top-mitigations/top35mitigationstrategies-list.htm

The New Zealand Information Security Manual, published by the GCSB, makes the following statements regarding administrative access:

• ensure that the use of privileged accounts is controlled and accountable
• keep privileged accounts to a minimum

The full GCSB report is available here (Section 9.3, privileged access, page 91): http://www.gcsb.govt.nz/newsroom/nzism/NZISM_2011_Version_1.01.pdf

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