Banking Technology reports
BGC Partners, has adopted BeyondTrust Privilege Manager to enforce least privilege security and compliance in their global network, encompassing 6,000 desktops in 20 offices worldwide serving over 1400 brokers and approximately 2400 employees.
"Our current environment allows users full administrative privileges on their PCs and we have limited control on what the end user can install and change on a desktop." said Paulo Pina, global desktop services manager BGC Partners. "We have limited awareness of changes being made and in most cases it's too late if a user installs malware and adware, leaving our desktop resources left fire-fighting problems."
"As the Global Desktop Services Manager at BGC, Beyond Trust's Privilege Manager, gives me the assurance that my environment is more secure from unwanted software, while also allowing me to proactively control which applications or processes users have access too, without giving them full administrators rights, and the problems that come with allowing such access, yet without hampering their day to day job function." Pina added.
Lack of controlled privileged access to critical IT resources carries security risks from the intentional, accidental or indirect misuse of those privileges, while also making compliance objectives difficult to meet.
Pina said: "Beyond Trust's Privilege Manager architecture allows changes to be made if required to a system or application policy quite quickly and effortlessly, and most importantly, if we wish, allow us to configure users to run an application in "logging mode", which will notify us that an application or system process is being used and whether we need to address its privileges."