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Deciding How to Protect
Before you install CA ControlMinder, decide what features of the software you want to use.
CA ControlMinder provides the following protection methods:
- Native security using CA ControlMinder Endpoint Management lets you implement the security features that are already familiar to you.
- Advanced native security lets you guard against more sophisticated attacks. CA ControlMinder lets you:
- Limit the rights of privileged accounts
- Assign special privileges to ordinary users, such as the ability to change user passwords for special users
- Support multiple file systems including NTFS, FAT, and CDFS
- Centralize security policies and auditing across heterogeneous environment containing Windows and UNIX systems
- Advanced policy management lets you deploy multiple-rule policies (script files) you create for your enterprise. This policy-based method lets you create version-controlled policies and assign and unassign policies to host groups in your enterprise. You can also directly deploy and remove deployed policies (undeploy) and view deployment status and deployment deviation.
- A Policy Model database (PMDB) lets you propagate a security database with users, groups, and access rules to a set of subscribers. The PMDB regularly propagates all the updates that it receives to subscribers. This mechanism eases the administrative burden on system administrators.
- Privileged User Password Management (PUPM) provides role-based access management for privileged accounts on target endpoints from a central location. PUPM also provides secure storage of privileged accounts and application ID passwords, and controls access to privileged accounts and passwords based on policies.
- UNIX Authentication Broker (UNAB) lets you validate local UNIX user and group credentials against Active Directory. Users use a single repository to log in to all platforms with the same user name and password.
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