About ARCON | EPM
Excessive end-user privileges pose significant security risks, leading to unauthorized access and potential breaches. Many of the most notorious security incidents—ranging from data theft and insider attacks to cyber-espionage and application misuse—stem from uncontrolled endpoint privilege access.
The shift to cloud and hybrid work environments has further intensified these risks, as employees increasingly access critical applications remotely from personal devices. This expanded attack surface, with multiple layers of applications and devices, makes business-critical assets more vulnerable to cyber threats.
ARCON’s Endpoint Privilege Management (EPM) solution helps organizations enforce least privilege access on endpoints. It prevents unauthorized privilege escalations, mitigates insider threats, and reduces the risk of malware attacks by granting users only the necessary privileges required for their tasks. ARCON EPM provides centralized control, real-time monitoring, and policy enforcement to ensure secure endpoint management while enhancing operational efficiency and compliance.
In addition to the above, recently ARCON has added three unique features to the solution that can address multiple industry use cases and fulfill requirements from the IT Risk management teams. Let us delve deeper and check out the three features.
Offline Elevation
Use Case: When network engineers or client servicing staff need to access critical applications or process any service/ task remotely, especially from a non-internet or poor internet zone. They can raise an offline elevation request for time-based and need-based access/ permission to the admin. After the admin (or any designated authority) receives an offline elevation request, analyzes its importance, and gives permission for time-bound access/ elevated access to the staff to accomplish the desired task with the help of ARCON | EPM.
Benefit: Offline elevation addresses a key business need by enabling request elevation in environments where internet access is unavailable/ poor.
Outside PAM/ CI Monitoring/ Restriction
Use Case: When users try to access critical applications outside PAM or Converged Identity (CI), malicious processes/ intentions could be involved. ARCON | EPM helps admins verify whether any user is onboarded in PAM or CI. If the user is not onboarded, then all the activities are automatically monitored and logged by EPM.
Benefit: With this feature, admins can track and restrict activities outside PAM on Windows/ Linux/ Mac.
Centralized Process Inventory
Use Case: During endpoint activity monitoring/ assessment/ evaluation in a large IT environment, if the admins find any old software version/ unpatched software posing a security risk, they update/ uninstall the anomalous software to circumvent any catastrophic situation. With ARCON | EPM, admins can verify that all applications are incorporated and configured with the appropriate tools to keep the software applications up to date. Moreover, it helps the admins to view this list of applications and avoid purchasing a new license for the requested software put forward by the end-user using this module.
Moreover, with the help of the ‘Centralized Process Inventory’ feature, EPM can generate a “Central Inventory Report,” a comprehensive document that offers detailed information on all inventory items within an organization. Users can uninstall applications with admin approval, ensuring organizational policies and control over software management align with operational needs and prevent unauthorized modifications.
Benefit: ARCON | EPM helps maintain a centralized repository of all processes running on endpoints, where admins can uninstall or update software applications if anything malicious or anomalous is found.
Conclusion
With the three new features added to the ARCON | Endpoint Privilege Management (EPM) solution after testing and approval, the solution is stronger now and offers additional benefits both from an end-user and administrative perspective.
