User Account Control is for many the bane of Windows Vista. Its encompassing ideas of reducing the spread and impact of administrator rights are great in theory, but difficult in practice. But at the same time, getting rid of administrator rights in our networks is a key need that we all wish we could solve.

In this podcast, I interview John Moyer, CEO of BeyondTrust. We talk about the regulatory, compliance, configuration control, and malware problems associated with the widespread distribution of administrator rights to those people who shouldn't have them. We discuss how tools exist that are improvements on UAC which eliminate this need while still providing laser-focused elevation for needed applications.

I'll admit that i wasn't aware of BeyondTrust's Privilege Manager product, but after talking with John I'm impressed with how this product can secure a network, eliminate unnecessary admin rights, and do so in a manner that's easy to use and fully supported by Microsoft.

This one's worth a listen.