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Service Account Controller for
Windows, Enterprise Edition is a
powerful security and
compliance tool for the
management of Windows Services.
Feature Highlights
After surveying thousands of organizations, five goals were
distilled and turned into a tightly focused solution:
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Risk Abatement:
Risk can be measured, minimized and hedged – giving your
organization the means to achieve ultimate security and
prevent massive potential losses.
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Protect Servers:
Service Account passwords can quickly be changed across a
distributed network – allowing you to implement the most
secure password policies and close this gapping security
hole in your network.
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Minimize Setup Time:
Properties of a service can be CLONED and propagated to
other servers – making the setup process (and future
changes) quick / flawless; driving costs down to the
floor.
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Network-Wide Reporting:
Robust real-time network-wide reporting across the entire
network – makes monitoring and making changes a snap.
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Zero Effort Reporting:
Reporting can be fully automated and scheduled – making
ongoing maintenance and reporting as simple as receiving an
email.
Overview
Risk Abatement
Everyday storage professionals are peppered with a hail of
security warnings about imminent threats. Organizations
don’t know what to work on first, and no one knows how
secure they “REALLY” are until their security has been
breached; by then it’s too late. It is almost impossible to
quantify how secure your Network is.
What is needed is a Metric, something that can measure the
relative vulnerability of your entire network against a
benchmark you create. A consistent measuring stick empowers
your organization to measure both its successes and its
failures.
Most importantly, measuring against a standard allows your
organization to continually minimize its risk by empowered
incremental process improvements over time.
Service Account Controller through its “Risk Index” provides
both the metric and the means by which to measure.
Protect Servers
Windows Service accounts enjoy the same level of authority
as a Super Administrator would; namely, absolute control.
Since Windows service passwords can only be changed manually
on each individual server, the implementation and
maintenance of a secure password policy across
a distributed network is challenging, at best.
Although the passwords should be changed regularly, up until
now there hasn’t been a cost effective way to execute
network-wide password changes across a distributed network.
In practice, Windows Server passwords are changed
infrequently, and generally these changes DO NOT occur even
when they are obviously necessary.
Every time a Network Administrator leaves your company, he
or she leaves with the passwords to the most powerful
accounts on your network, and an intimate knowledge of its
architecture. To compound this risk, recent legislation
clearly places the fiscal responsibility to end users on the
shoulders of companies protecting data.
Service Account Controller allows you to change the
passwords on all servers across a distributed network.
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