Users or apps with admin or root privileges have access to sensitive data/operating systems. Under a least privilege model, admin accounts with elevated privileges are given only to people who really need them. All others operate as standard users with an appropriate set of privileges.

You must know which privileges you need to manage. Find out which endpoints and local users have admin or root credentials, identify which apps are in use and if they require admin rights to run and understand your risk level for service accounts and apps with an elevated set of privileges.

Yes! To comply with least privilege policies, user rights should never be elevated to execute applications because this opens a window for hackers to exploit. Instead, the necessary applications should be elevated directly.

Creating a trusted or allowed application is the practice of specifying an index of approved software applications that are permitted to be present and active on a computer system. The goal is to protect computers and networks from potentially harmful applications.

Proactively manage and monitor all the applications running on your endpoints with policy-driven controls such as trusted/allowed lists and elevation policies, real-time application analysis and admin approval workflows.

Endpoint security refers to a methodology of protecting the corporate network when accessed via remote devices such as laptops or other wireless and mobile devices. Each device with a remote connecting to the network creates a potential entry point for security threats.

On a computer, an administrator is a local account or a local security group that has complete access to create, delete, and modify files, folders, and settings on that computer. This is in contrast to other user accounts that have only been granted specific permissions and levels of access.

The Privilege Manager agent elevates processes with a new SID (security identifier) from the Windows Local Security Authority. By replacing the SID and not the LUID (log in identifier), the process runs as the user who initially launched it but with higher access rights requested by the agent.

Administrative credentials are privileged accounts typically in a Windows environment. Root credentials are privileged accounts in Unix/Linux.