Desktop lockdown with BOUNCER by CoreTrace
In IT, you can only support and manage what you know. That's why you standardize on certain operating systems, vendors, productivity applications and browsers — to create and maintain a stable environment in which your team are the experts on their systems. Inevitably, however, users introduce new applications that cause inherent instabilities, from Blue Screens of Death to blatant malware corruption to license violations.
Some of these programs might serve legitimate business purposes that your team simply had not anticipated, and some may simply be time-wasters and productivity-killers of various kinds. Traditionally, locking down a desktop has involved stripping all user privileges away from the end user, which hampers his or her ability to function effectively.
BOUNCER by CoreTrace allows you to lock down the applications installed on a system at the approved configuration, comparing every application that launches against its whitelist of approved programs. While this protects you from malware executing, it also protects you from users installing whatever program catches their fancy at a given moment.
This is transparent to the user — they can download the application, but it simply will not run. A violation alert will be forwarded to the BOUNCER console, and your IT staff can evaluate the application to decide if it has business value or not. No more nasty surprises, no more time wasted running around fixing problems caused by downloading frivolous, unsupported applications.
By preventing the execution of unauthorized applications, BOUNCER reduces helpdesk expenses and license audit risks simultaneously.