Altiris® Local Security Solution™

Altiris® Local Security Solution™ software provides centralized management that quickly and easily provisions and manages local administrative users and groups within the environment. Local Security Solution’s automated policy enforcement of group membership and randomization of administrative passwords across systems secures the corporate network from malicious attacks on an organization's information assets.

Centralized Management of Local Group Memberships and Passwords

As critical information assets become increasingly distributed across servers, desktops and notebooks, an important aspect of audit-ready security includes the management of local users and groups with administrative access. Because administrative accounts provide extensive permissions and power, they are on one hand an essential element of securing and administering corporate systems and on the other hand a potentially dangerous avenue of attack.

Improving the security around local administrative accounts is a necessity for organizations looking to secure their network assets. Common methods include enforcing strong passwords, periodically changing the administrative password, and regularly auditing accounts to validate proper controls. While organizations implement these security methods through Active Directory and Group Policy Administration, these solutions only cover domain-controlled accounts and provide no centralized control over local account memberships built into each computer. Organizations may try to use utilities, customized scripts and manual methods, but the only sure way to gain visibility and control is through a solution designed specifically for local user and group management.

Local Security Solution is the only solution that provides capabilities in local user and group account provisioning, local group membership enforcement, managed account password randomization, and user and group account compliance reporting in a platform-integrated solution. You can protect your organizations most valuable information assets through proper implementation of local security policies that not only prevent unknowledgeable or malicious employees from exploiting weak security, but also satisfy requirements of many regulations, including Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, FISMA, and Gramm-Leach-Bliley.

Key Features & Benefits

• Gain visibility and control over local users and groups
• Enforce consistent local account memberships
• Randomize passwords based on strong password criteria
• Cycle passwords on administrator-defined schedules
• Detect and resolve compliance anomalies

Screen Shots

	Randomize passwords using strong password criteria, such as specified password length and character complexity.
	Create, delete, and/or modify local accounts, including descriptions and user account flags.