The Privilege Management Conspiracy: The secret war over elevated user privilege

There are things you want your users to be able to do – like changing the time zone on their laptops or installing a corporate ActiveX control – that by default require local administrator privileges. You don’t really want to incur the security risks of making everyone a local admin, but you can’t afford having your helpdesk keep getting calls every time a user needs to do something that requires elevated privileges. This white paper explores this problem and offers a better way to manage elevated privileges.