Securden Privilege Manager product review, breakdown, and analysis

Organizations are handling a hybrid environment with few employees working from home and others from office. These complex scenarios need more robust security practices to keep the end users and their data, safe and secured.

Privilege escalation and threats that leverage unnecessary user privileges have always been a problem for organizations while handling user devices and the applications associated with them, which is why IT departments and MSPs will need a solution to manage these privileges and ensure the data is safe with their network.

In this article we will look at Securden Privilege Manager, which will allow organizations to achieve least privilege across their network and applications without affecting user experience.

Securden Privilege Manager comes with an array of features and capabilities, we’ll look at them one by one. The below image will depict why SMBs and enterprises prefer Securden,

Features of Securden Privilege Manager

• Inventory of Devices
• Discovery of applications
• Application control
• Admin monitoring and analysis
• Support for policy-based management
• Support for offline scenarios
• Managing admin privileges
• Temporary elevated privileges
• Temporary admin access
• Automation workflows
• Reporting and trend analysis

Securden Privilege Manager Architecture

Securden Privilege Manager is a agent and server based solution that has a central server with PostgresSQL as database and connects with AD and GPO as any other endpoint management solution. To start managing the applications and the user privileges associated with them, you need to deploy a light weighted application called ‘agent’ to your  target device and then this agent will establish communication with the Securden Privilege Manager server via HTTPS 5151 port and with SSL authentication.

Discovery and installation of agents

Securden server once set up will be able to fetch the computers and device details from the Active Directory if one exists already. All you have to do is fill in the domain credentials and IP address FQDN details with SSL authentication.

As the discovery of the devices is made, you can go ahead and start deploying the agents manually or automatically as per your network capabilities. If you already own a endpoint management tool like SCCM, this can be automated else install them manually using the ‘Install agent’ option. It can be also automated using GPO policies.

Once the agents are deployed, that device will start communicating with your server and the applications associated with them will be ready for privilege management.

Application Control and Management

With the agents on the machines, you can take a look at all the applications associated with those devices as Securden Privilege Manager agent will automatically pickup the applications that is installed on the machine. The technician will be able to sort applications based on the devices.

You can also manually add new applications with their names, descriptions, type (MSI, EXE, VBS, BAT,  Powershell Scipt, MSC etc) and attributes.

As you fill in the required details, it can be saved and the new application will be added to the list of your managed applications. All this fall under the Application tab of the Securden Privilege Manager.

Privilege Management

Applications can be added with control policies by defining the right elevation privileges including the local admin privilege, whitelist, and blacklist for individual applications.  Also, the excess rights for users including the admin rights can be removed for all users or specific users/groups based on the domains and work groups. This can also be applied at device level and is not restricted only to users.

At the user end, users can look at the Securden Privilege Manager tray icon, and request access for a specific application. Alternatively, this can be done by right clicking on the application and selecting the ‘Run with Securden Privilege Manager’ option, which will open a dialogue box as shown below,

As you click request admin access, another dialogue box pops up asking for a reason and duration to gain elevated privileges. This can be application specific or full admin access as per the demand and approval policies of your network.

If the application is blacklisted it will be mentioned in the pop dialogue box.

Securden Advanced Dashboards

Adding to its robust application control and management features, Securden provides powerful and advanced dashboard to have a bird’s view on the endpoints, servers, Securden agents, applications, users, app policies, local admins, most elevated apps in last 30 days, application type and distribution, and more details for your network. Also, it does allows you customize things for your flexibility.

Securden Privilege Manager and its extra options

Securden also provides High Availability of its services by facilitating the primary and secondary server set up which will come useful during a failover scenario and fix the downtime challenges.

Also to secure your backups, Securden Privilege Manager also supports MySQL along with PostgreSQL for backing up your network data.

Furthermore, Securden provides two factor authentication via Mail OTP, Google/Microsoft/OTP authenticator, RADIUS authentication, Email to SMS gateway and Yubikey authentication, and all of its data are with AES 256 encryption.

If you’re organization is looking for an effective way to manage your network applications and control their privileges, Securden Privilege Manager is a must look at. Privilege and Access Management is a critical section of cybersecurity, and this domain is of equal importance with SIEM and Endpoint Protection domains. And, did I mention Securden also facilitates your integration with SIEM tools for a unified log and audit management.

Securden pricing

The price is based on licensing for endpoints and servers, comes with Privilege Management and Application Control and has no limit on the number of apps that can be monitored and controlled. You can use the product for 30 days and demand refund without any questions asked, and Securden does offer special discount to education, non-profit,  and government agencies. Give a try on Securden Privilege Manager and share your thoughts with us in the comment section.

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