The purchase of the Beyond Trust software and implementation services will enable the Health Services Department's (HSD) Information Technology (IT) Unit to control and audit access to privileged electronic accounts, such as: shared administrative accounts, application accounts, local administrative accounts and service accounts, enabling the management of privileges and control applications on physical and virtual desktops and servers. The software records all user and administrator activity, providing a comprehensive audit trail. In addition, the software will provide a “least-privilege” solution which enables IT to remove administrator privileges, enforce standard user permissions, simplify the enforcement of least-privilege policies, maintain application access control and log privileged activities. This application will simplify compliance reporting across the entire IT infrastructure, helping to eliminate privilege abuse, and preventing data breaches.

If the Beyond Trust Software, Inc. privilege manager component is not implemented, HSD IT will not have the ability to reduce the risk of accidental or intentional privilege misuse on physical or virtual servers and desktops, thereby preventing IT from closing security gaps, improving operational efficiency and achieving compliance objectives.