Introduction to Privilege Manager

Privilege Manager is an endpoint least privilege and application control solution for Windows and macOS, capable of supporting enterprises and fast-growing organizations at scale. Mitigate malware and modern security threats from exploiting applications by removing local administrative rights from endpoints. The two major components are Local Security and Application Control.

Using Privilege Manager discovery, administrators can automatically discover local administrator privileges and enforce the principle of least privilege through policy-driven actions. Those policy-driven actions include:

• blocking, elevating, monitoring, allowing
• application quarantine, sandbox, and isolation,
• application privilege elevation, and
• endpoint monitoring

All this is seamless for users, reduce IT/desktop support workload, and support compliance obligations.

Privilege Manager does not require Secret Server or any other Delinea product to run. Secret Server's vaulting and workflow capabilities can be extended to privileged endpoint accounts when the two products are used together.

The typical user is part of an IT team that is tasked with implementing and overseeing a company's security business requirements and framework. In the product, this role is known as the Privilege Manager Administrator. Although there are a few other kinds of user roles that may use Privilege Manager now and then for minor tasks, the Privilege Manager Administrator is the main user of Privilege Manager.

It is useful (although not necessary) for Privilege Manager Administrators to be familiar with the basics of IT administration, such as the Group Policy feature from Microsoft.