How to manage the risk of your high-risk users

Imagine if you have a diverse user groups in your company that has remote access to critical systems and devices. Or vendors and contractors that needs to access your critical infrastructure in order to provide remote administration and support for their internal applications and equipment. What about employees that needs to access central records database offsite?

Even if such users have no intention of doing harm, do you have a way to monitor and report what they are doing in order to be compliant with PCI, HIPAA and SOX?

Anyone with broad access to the IT infrastructure and sensitive data with high degree of technical knowledge are called "high-risk" users which is very typical on every organization. The Xceedium Gatekeeper is a hardened appliance that enables companies to remotely manage the activities of high-risk users from inside or outside the organization without leaving a footprint. This allows them to perform their job functions without having the ability to "stray" and do more that they should.

Xceedium can capture the raw RDP protocol instead of video streams for easy search of activities, incidents and controls. With policy enforcement capabilities, GateKeeper can terminate an action if a user tries to do something he doesn’t have privileges for. It will then logged it s a violation and trigger an alert.

Xceedium GateKeeper is a low-overhead and cost-effective all-in-one security solution created to fulfill the need for operational efficiency without compromising compliance and security requirements. To know more about on how to manage the risk of your high-risk users download the article from Network World or visit Xceedium at www.Xceedium.com.

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