83% Of Organizations Looking at Desktop Lockdown New Research Shows

WALTHAM, Mass.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Viewfinity (www.viewfinity.com), the innovator of systems and privilege management, today released market research on recent trends showing how organizations are revisiting PC control policies and increasing desktop lockdown, featuring Gartner.

“A definite relationship exists between IT support costs and PC lockdown. Organizations implement a least privileges policy to better control and protect the distributed desktop environment and reduce system vulnerability”

Effective PC Lockdown: Beyond the All or Nothing Approach

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“A definite relationship exists between IT support costs and PC lockdown. Organizations implement a least privileges policy to better control and protect the distributed desktop environment and reduce system vulnerability,” said Terrence Cosgrove, Senior Research Analyst with Gartner. “To avoid merely shifting support calls related to unstable PCs to a high frequency of incidental type calls, companies should consider privilege management tools that will allow them to manage by user type or role, which helps extend the value of lock down beyond the all or nothing approach.”

Newsletter Content

Often a politically charged decision, Gartner research shows that 52% of organizations will increase the number of desktops they lock down, while 31% will continue an existing policy. This newsletter provides insight through Gartner’s research as well as other key industry findings including:

Organizations Are Increasing PC Lockdown, Terrence Cosgrove, Ronni J. Colville
Best Practices for PC Lockdown and Control Policies, Dwain Kinghorn, former CTO of Altiris
Case Study by Lathrop & Gage: Moving Desktop Environment Toward Least Privileges Operation
Viewfinity Privilege Management Information and Resources

Better Operations Control through Privilege Management

“In theory, operating a least privileges environment offers more control over endpoints, which should lead to a decrease in IT support costs,” said Leonid Shtilman, CEO of Viewfinity. “However, all too often the support calls merely shift from being related to unstable PCs to end users who cannot perform basic business functions. The end result is that true savings has not been achieved. Fortunately, Viewfinity Privilege Management offers a strategy for managing administrator rights within a least privileges operating environment beyond the typical all–or-nothing approach.”

Viewfinity Privilege Management offers IT administrators a flexible approach for controlling its corporate desktop and laptop environment. With tighter, yet flexible control over the types of applications and privileges your distributed workforce are allowed, the more stable your desktop environment becomes. With this enhanced control over managing your environment, the number of end user support calls to the help desk are reduced.

About Viewfinity

Viewfinity is the innovator of systems and privilege management via cloud-computing, allowing IT professionals to focus on managing systems and not the platform's infrastructure. With the cloud model, IT can be up and running quickly to provide management, support and control for desktops, servers and laptops. This makes it extremely cost effective and easy for IT to support local as well as mobile workers.

Viewfinity uses virtualization technology as the foundation to simplify and automate deployment and management of applications, licenses and assets. Viewfinity also complements traditional systems management by offering compliance adherence to flexibly manage privileges for locked down computers. Viewfinity's cloud approach delivers immediate and long-term value, scales with business need, and eliminates the equipment, training, and substantially higher costs of on-premise implementations. Based in Waltham, Mass., information on Viewfinity systems management solutions can be found at www.viewfinity.com.