The new Altiris Local Security Solution should help IT shops stay on top of all the Windows passwords they issue by exerting tighter controls over user and group permissions to restrict access of unauthorized users to sensitive systems.
Customers tell us that are looking for better ways of managing the large estate of system passwords they have to manage, said John Botting, director EMEA sales for Altiris Security Management. This system will discover who has administrator rights and who has which account privileges, and then help enforce a policy that is both secure and consistent.
Notably, the system is intended to close the hole that can appear when managing locally defined user accounts and group memberships, and should put a stop to the habit of issuing a single, static password for use across groups workstations or servers. It will randomize passwords and then change them according a predetermined schedule so that they remain secure.
The $22-per-node software requires deployment of the Altiris Notification Server, a system that is used to manage client-side agents and monitor inventory activity across a network.