BOSTON, Massachusetts and MANCHESTER, England, March 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Avecto, the leader in Windows privilege management, today announced the launch of Privilege Guard 2.7, which enhances its existing User Account Control (UAC) integration to deal with applications that trigger dynamic elevation. "User Account Control is an important security feature within Windows 7, but it's reliance on a local administrator account makes it unsuitable for many corporate environments," says Mark Austin, CTO at Avecto.

BOSTON and MANCHESTER, England, February 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- - Independent Analyst Firm Recommends that Large Enterprises Implement Avecto's Privilege Guard as Part of Their Standard Windows Desktop Build Avecto, the leader in Windows privilege management, today announced that it has been featured in a Technology Audit report by independent analyst firm Ovum.

BOSTON and MANCHESTER, England, February 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Avecto, the world leader in Windows privilege management, today announced that its award winning privilege management solution, Privilege Guard, provides protection against code injection threats that exist in the default configuration of User Account Control (UAC) on Windows 7. "The threats have existed since the beta of Windows 7, and could allow malware to run with elevated privileges without prompting the user, assuming the UAC slider is left at its default setting," says Mark Austin, CTO.

MANCHESTER, England, February 16, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Avecto Ltd, the most trusted name in least privilege management for Windows systems, today announced the release of Privilege Guard 2.5, which extends its application privilege management solution to integrate more closely with User Account Control (UAC). "On Windows 7 and Vista platforms, Privilege Guard may be configured to intercept and replace UAC consent dialogs with Privilege Guard's policy driven elevation, auditing and messaging capabilities," said Mark Austin, CTO at Avecto.

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