Least-Privilege Management for Mac OS X BeyondTrust PowerBroker for Mac reduces the risk of privilege misuse by enabling standard users on Mac OS to perform administrative tasks successfully without entering elevated credentials. With PowerBroker for Mac, IT organizations simplify the enforcement of least-privilege policies, close security gaps, improve operational efficiency and achieve compliance objectives faster. • Eliminate admin rights from Mac users, reducing risk and potentially stopping modern OS threats • Elevate privileges only when needed, maintaining user productivity and IT operational efficiency without compromising security • Log, audit and report on activities that occur when privileged access is granted to applications, helping to address compliance requirements • Make smarter and better decisions to reduce risk by providing better user and asset intelligence across multiple platforms PowerBroker for Mac complements BeyondTrust’s least privilege solutions for, and using the PowerBroker. Lock it down: Elevate required tasks restricting sensitive settings and the unauthorized installation of software and updates.

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Simplify the user experience: Eliminate the need for end users to require two accounts, or administrative credentials on their Mac, to perform privileged tasks. Smart rules: Match applications to rules automatically based on asset-based policies. Leverage smart rules for alerting and grouping of OS devices and events. User-based rules and policy: Ensures a consistent security model throughout the network by applying a policy to assets, computers, or users. Flexible policies: Create privileged identity policies to selectively target applications, installers, auto updates, and system preferences for application-based elevation. Deploy hosting policies via web services for PowerBroker for Mac clients (and ).

Single policy across multiple environments: Enable a single policy to manage privileged applications and Windows guests for OS users of BootCamp, VMware Fusion, Parallels, or Virtual Box for complete management of multi-operating system asset implementations. Automatic logging for visibility: Log all privileged events automatically for complete visibility and reporting through web services hosted on the PowerBroker.

Extensive reporting: Take advantage of extensive reporting for complete visibility into privileged activity and usage patterns. Deliver dedicated asset views for asset inventory and privilege event detection and elevation. Colored file folders for mac. Identity-based management of policy: manage access policy by a variety of parameters, including: security group, username, computer name, IP Range, and user type (Admin/Domain/Local).

By You can set permissions on your MacBook to increase the security of your documents and to prevent yourself from inadvertently deleting files. To set permissions, follow these steps: • Click the item to select it, press Command+I (or choose Finder→File), and then choose the Get Info menu item.