Viewfinity Privilege Management Use Cases
While IT needs vary from company to company, the use cases below depict universal business and technology challenges.
1. Elevate Privileges / Least Privileges Admin Rights on Desktops
- Business Need
I need to allow standard users to run applications that require admin privileges, but I don't want to grant administrator rights to end-users.- Viewfinity Capability
- Viewfinity Elevate Privileges functionality allows IT Administrators to manage and assign administrative privilege permissions to specific applications per desktop or group of users without granting full administrative rights to the desktop/users. Other than applications identified and flagged for elevated privileges, the desktop operates within the least privileges mode.
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2. White List Only
- Business Need
Is it possible to setup and manage white listed only applications versus having to maintain a list and block all unapproved software?- Viewfinity Capability
- Viewfinity can be configured to support a "white list only" model so that when an end user logs in, his/her desktop is configured to only present and run the applications that are required for them to work. Other standard desktop applications are not available — no games, IM, iTunes, etc. are visible.
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3. Minimize changes that users make to application configuration settings
- Business Need
We need to reduce the number of IT support calls that are related to changes that an end user has accidentally made to his desktop or application configuration.- Viewfinity Capability
- Application Lockdown provides the ability to customize application settings and, once configured, an application can be locked down. If an end user accidentally removes a toolbar or deletes a printer, his standard configuration can easily be reset.
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4. Stolen Laptops: Protecting Corporate Applications
- Business Need
I need to be able to protect a stolen laptop so that sensitive corporate applications cannot be used by malicious and unauthorized users.- Viewfinity Capability
- Viewfinity Block Application has the ability to automatically prevent application usage if a laptop is reported stolen. The ability to completely block an application is possible because of our desktop virtualization and encapsulation architecture. Block works even when the laptop is outside the corporate network (note, any policy can be applied as long the PC is connected to the Internet).
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