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What is Endpoint Privilege Management?

Endpoint Privilege Management (EPM) is all about implementing least privilege security on your Windows and macOS workstations. It is a cloud solution that allows you to remove local admin rights on your workstations to protect your organization. A user without local admin rights can’t make changes to system folders, kill processes, remove security software, and more. This makes your organization more secure, but the weakness is that users still need admin rights from time to time to install, update, or use business software. With idemeum EPM you can apply rules to automatically elevate certain apps or system actions without giving users permanent admin permissions.

Endpoint Privilege Management overview

Get started with EPM

In this guide we will install idemeum agent, enable EPM, and test the elevation approval flow.

  1. Sign up for idemeum tenant
    Sign up for free idemeum IT or MSP tenant on our website → idemeum.com

  2. (MSP) - Create child tenant
    If you are an MSP, please create a child tenant / organization.

    • Login to your MSP admin portal
    • Navigate to Tenants → click Add tenant and choose manually
    • Provide subdomain and display names and save the configuration

  3. Enable EPM for your tenant

    • Navigate to your idemeum tenant admin portal
    • Click Control settings → EPM
    • Make sure EPM is enabled for your tenant

  4. Grab installation command to deploy agents
    macOS agent deployment requires privacy and security permissions so it is recommended to deploy the agent with an MDM profile. Click on the Install agent → choose Control agent and copy the installation command for Windows or macOS.

  5. Turn elevation mode to rules
    Once the agent is installed it will appear in the Devices table and the default mode for elevation will be turned off. Click on ... and turn the elevation mode to Rules.

  6. Test request elevation flow
    Make sure you log in to your workstation with a standard account to test elevation flow.

    • Login to your workstation with a standard account

    • Launch some application that requires admin privileges

    • You will see the idemeum request window. When there are no rules present, the default behavior is to offer the request option to the user.

    • In idemeum portal navigate to Activity → Requests and approve the elevation request!

    • You can now relaunch the application on your workstation, and it will be automatically elevated.

  7. Create elevation rules
    If you want to create rules to automatically elevate or deny applications, please follow the steps here.

Endpoint Privilege Management has many more features that we can cover in this guide. Please consult our documentation to learn about all features EPM has to offer.