BeyondTrust Announces New Reporting Capabilities and End-User Experience Enhancements in PowerBroker Desktops 5.1

BeyondTrust, the leading provider of privilege delegation and authorization management solutions, today announced the release of PowerBroker® Desktops, Windows Edition v5.1. This release features enhanced, standalone reporting capabilities providing network administrators unprecedented visibility into how elevated privileges are used on desktops. By leveraging native Microsoft research, including Event Forwarding and any SQL database, PowerBroker desktops can provide reporting data on who is using elevated privileges, what applications require administrator privileges to run, and even Microsoft User Account Control usage across the enterprise. The release as well includes improvements to end-user messaging, allowing organizations to display customized message boxes based on various conditions on the desktop.

PowerBroker Desktops Reporting Console replaces the popular Automatic Rule Generation utility that before provided the fastest, easiest and most cost-effective path to least privilege. With the new reporting console, removing administrator privileges is even faster and easier than in previous versions of PowerBroker Desktops. The reporting console leverages native Windows technologies, eliminating the need for additional hardware or infrastructure, which is a requirement for many competing products. Charts and graphs are automatically generated so that network administrators can have snapshot views of the environment as it pertains to privileged operations. These charts and graphs are also in the extreme valuable to executives and risk management personnel to show effective security policy and return on investment. Dashboard reports include:

PowerBroker Desktops 5.1 as well includes improved end user messaging customizations, providing network administrators the ability to display custom messages to end users based on various conditions. Examples include displaying of customized message boxes when applications require administrator privileges, replacements for User Account Control dialogs, On-Demand elevation prompting and more. The enhanced message box capabilities provide end users with a smooth transition to least privilege.

Founded in 1985, BeyondTrust is the global leader in privilege authorization management, access control and security solutions for physical, virtual, cloud and infrastructure computing environments. The company's products mitigate insider threats and secure the perimeter within across the enterprise, empowering IT governance to strengthen security, improve productivity, drive compliance and reduce expense.