AppSense ships AppSense Application Manager

Application Manager 8.9 leverages AppSense’s decade-plus experience balancing desktop IT needs and user acceptance to accelerate initiatives that require scalable application control on any version of Windows, including Windows 8 App Store, and granular privilege management. With Application Manager, IT teams can define per-user application entitlements, comply with licensing requirements and enforce corporate security policy based on contextual factors such as location, device name, IP address, firewall settings, or even time of day. In addition, AppSense’s privilege management technology ensures that desktop admin rights are granted only when the user needs them. Empowering IT teams to put the principle of “least privilege” into action improves endpoint security without disrupting user workflows and productivity.

Secure Desktops and Productive users
Maintaining blacklists and whitelists often pose significant management overhead for desktop IT teams. Application Manager uses AppSense’s “Trusted Ownership” technology to ensure that only applications installed by select administrators are allowed to execute, while user-introduced applications are prevented from launching by default. Trusted Ownership allows IT teams to optionally maintain whitelists and blacklists, but removes users’ perception that IT is controlling user computing and makes users feel like they are in control.

“AppSense Application Manager is the first and only security solution to be designed and optimized from the user experience perspective,” said Ravi Khatod, senior vice president of product and business development at AppSense. “IT’s desire to lock down corporate endpoints in order to maintain security is at odds with end-users’ need for flexibility around the applications they want to install and run and the privileges they need. Application Manager pleases both IT and the user, whether the user is on a physical, virtual and cloud desktop.”

AppSense’s “user-first” design philosophy ensures user experience is maintained as desktops are being secured. For example, AppSense Application Manager’s on-demand change request feature allows IT to offer a white-glove response to user requests without impacting IT’s gold image management or user productivity.

“Our customers face the challenge of maintaining security and compliance on endpoints without disrupting user productivity,” said Ron Ben-Yishay, chief executive officer of partner DynTek Services, Inc. “They love the fact that AppSense Application Manager blocks unauthorized code out of the box while still giving IT teams the flexibility to employ additional levels of whitelisting, blacklisting, and privilege management."

AppSense Application Manager is deployed at organizations that face challenges in system security and regulatory compliance, including major government agencies, banks, healthcare, and Fortune 1000 companies.