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Endpoint Privilege Management (EPM) - Targeted Control of Local Administrator Rights and Enhanced Endpoint Security

With Endpoint Privilege Management, we reduce unnecessary administrator rights on endpoints and create the foundation for a modern Zero Trust strategy.

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Enhanced Security for Workstations and Endpoints

In many organizations, employees have permanent local administrator rights. While this makes it easy to install applications or configure systems, it also significantly increases the risk posed by malware, misconfigurations, or unintended changes.

Endpoint Privilege Management enables administrator rights to be provided in a targeted and controlled manner. Users receive elevated privileges only when they are actually required — in a traceable, time-limited manner and based on defined policies.

40 %

of all Microsoft vulnerabilities fall into the category of “Elevation of Privilege.” Attackers specifically target accounts with administrator rights to move laterally across the network.

0 %

permanent administrator rights thanks to the Just-in-Time (JIT) principle: privileges are granted only for individual applications for a few minutes and then automatically expire.

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What Is Endpoint Privilege Management?

Endpoint Privilege Management (EPM) controls and monitors privileged permissions on endpoints such as Windows and macOS systems. The goal is to avoid permanent local administrator rights and instead provide permissions only for defined applications or tasks. Typical functions include:

  • Management of local administrator rights
  • Just-in-Time privileges
  • Application approvals
  • Policies for privileged processes
  • Logging of administrative actions
  • Integration with existing IAM and security solutions

Challenges in Practice

Local administrator rights are often granted for practical reasons. Applications need to be installed, drivers updated, or systems configured. However, if these permissions are granted permanently, they create an unnecessarily large attack surface.

At the same time, employees expect a smooth day-to-day experience without having to contact IT for every installation. Organizations therefore face the challenge of combining security with ease of use.

What We Can Do for You

  • Analysis of existing privilege concepts
  • Reduction of local administrator rights
  • Implementation of Endpoint Privilege Management
  • Implementation of least-privilege concepts
  • Policies for privileged applications
  • Integration with existing IAM and endpoint management solutions
  • Support for hybrid work environments
  • Consulting on Zero Trust and compliance

Your Benefits

Professional Endpoint Privilege Management improves endpoint security while reducing the workload for IT.

  • Fewer permanent administrator rights
  • Reduced attack surface
  • Controlled privilege assignment
  • Greater transparency
  • Support for compliance requirements
  • Secure operation of workstations
  • Improved user experience through automated approvals

Why OEDIV SecuSys?

Endpoint Privilege Management is an important component of modern identity and security strategies. What matters is not only implementing a solution, but also integrating it into existing processes and privilege concepts.OEDIV SecuSys supports organizations in planning, implementing, and further developing EPM solutions. Together, we create a privilege concept that combines security and productivity in a meaningful way.

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What Is Endpoint Privilege Management?
Endpoint Privilege Management (EPM) removes permanent local administrator rights from workstations and provides elevated privileges only when specifically required: for individual applications, installations, or system changes, based on a policy or approval, for a limited period of time, and with full logging. Users work as standard users without compromising productivity.
With local administrator rights, malware accidentally launched by a user can disable security software, establish persistence on the system, and extract credentials. Without these rights, most attack chains involving ransomware are stopped at the endpoint. The attack surface on the endpoint can be reduced by up to 95 percent. At the same time, ISO 27001, the BSI IT-Grundschutz framework, and cyber insurers require organizations to demonstrate that standard users do not have administrator privileges, while helpdesk tickets for software installations are significantly reduced.
Approved software is installed based on policy, drivers and printers are explicitly authorized, and users can request a temporary privilege elevation with a justification for exceptions. Application control blocks unknown executables. Developers and administrators receive differentiated profiles instead of full access. We start with a learning phase in which the solution only logs activity and use the results to derive the policies. This ensures that nothing users actually need is blocked on day one.
Privileged Access Management (PAM) protects privileged accounts and access to servers, databases, networks, and cloud environments through vaulting, session recording, and time-limited privilege assignment. Endpoint Privilege Management (EPM) controls elevated privileges on endpoints such as Windows and macOS clients without requiring privileged accounts. Many vendors offer both capabilities on a single platform. From a technical perspective, EPM implements the principle of least privilege at the workplace. We generally recommend starting EPM in parallel with the first PAM rollout because it delivers results quickly and has few dependencies.
EPM is available for Windows clients and servers, macOS, and common Linux distributions. On Windows, Endpoint Privilege Management integrates with User Account Control; on macOS, it integrates with privilege management; on Linux, it replaces uncontrolled administrator access with policy-based authorization. We implement EPM with protection against credential theft and application control and integrate it with your existing Privileged Access Management solution.
Endpoint Privilege Management is relevant for any organization where employees currently have local administrator rights, which is still the case for the majority of companies. It is particularly relevant for organizations with large or distributed workforces, remote work environments, developer workstations, and anywhere auditors, cyber insurers, or NIS2 require evidence that the principle of least privilege is being applied. We can implement a pilot with one department within a few weeks.