Delinea has announced new features for Privilege Manager, its solution for managing privileged access on Windows and Mac workstations. Updates in this release include improvements to the native MacOS agent, ensuring that the same authorisation controls can be applied in a timely manner to newer Macs with M1 processors as well as older Intel-based Macs.
The latest update to the native MacOS agent for Privilege Manager provides controls equivalent to those of the .Net agent used on Intel-based Macs and optimises Delinea’s ability to rapidly respond when Apple makes changes or publishes updates to MacOS. Privilege Manager administrators can continue to create and enforce policies consistently against Windows and Mac workstations while users can remain confident that updates are quickly applied when OS changes are made.
These enhancements help organisations reduce risk from malware and ransomware, while limiting the productivity impact on users and decreasing the workload on IT and security teams charged with managing privileged access policies.
Across both Windows and Mac workstations, administrators can use the Delinea Policy Framework to automatically create the most common privileged access policies. Privilege Manager can remove local administrator privileges from workstation users. Policies can also granularly elevate privileges to specific actions based on observed normal behaviours as well as allow specific applications to operate with semi-elevated privileges when needed. IT and security teams can automate up to 99 per cent of application controls while observing behaviour and analytics to set policies for the remaining one per cent of unknown applications.
“Our focus on extending Privileged Access Management across all identities in the enterprise includes strengthening our customers’ ability to apply authorisation controls to accounts and applications on workstations,” commented Jon Kuhn, SVP of Product Management at Delinea. “This includes supporting Intel-based and M1 Macs as well as Windows workstations so that we can quickly reduce the risk from that attack vector with rapid updates.”
Additional updates in this release include enhancements to the user interface and tool tips for specific functionality that improve ease of use.
