Remove excessive admin privileges and instantly reduce the risks of a breach
Grant elevated access only where it’s needed at the application level, eliminate credential exposure, and prevent privilege abuse before it turns into lateral movement or ransomware.
Eliminate standing local admin rights across your enterprise
Remove broad administrative access and replace it with application-specific elevation to dramatically reduce credential abuse and lateral movement risk.
Prevent privilege escalation and admin credential theft
Stop attackers from harvesting or abusing admin passwords by eliminating credential entry on endpoints and tightly controlling elevation events.
Enforce least privilege for compliance and cyber insurance
Demonstrate enforceable least privilege controls aligned to NIST, CMMC, CIS Controls, and other frameworks while running business operations uninterrupted.
Dormant accounts, misconfigurations, and excessive permissions open the door to breaches. Managing these privileges is time-consuming and error prone. ThreatLocker empowers you to mitigate these risks. Now you can grant administrative access without giving up control.
Minimize the risks of local admin privilege abuse by assigning administrative rights at the application level, not the user level. This allows users to run approved applications with elevated privileges, without ever needing full local admin access.
Create a “High-risk application elevation” policy.
Identify tools attackers commonly abuse—PowerShell, Command Prompt, scripting engines, remote admin utilities—and require explicit, time-bound elevation for those applications only.
Here’s how it works:
Deploy the ThreatLocker agent to identify what’s running and auto-generate a list of those applications.
From the list, approve which applications can run as local admin. That’s all!
Now users can run those applications with elevated access without needing full admin privileges.
When users need to elevate an application not on the list, they can do so with a simple request. Plus, you gain full visibility into all admin accounts and can create policies to automatically remove unused or unapproved ones, eliminating unnecessary privilege risks.
Further harden elevated applications Deploy application containment policies within your ThreatLocker agent to prevent application hopping and lock down potential attack vectors.
Another key advantage: no password exposure Admins no longer need to enter their credentials on standard endpoints. Instead, they can request elevation for specific applications — no password typed, no risks of admin credential exposure or theft.
ThreatLocker saves us time by streamlining processes and reducing the need for constant monitoring.
Bo Olsen Security Engineering Manager Eastern Bank
Your benefits
Stronger security posture
The fewer admin rights in your environment, the smaller your attack surface and the lower your risk of breach.
Less operational friction
Users can run the tools they need with the right level of access: No bottlenecks or support tickets.
Smarter, granular control
Set time limits by user, group of users, or applications. Keep control in your hands without slowing anyone down.
The results?
No more standing admin rights and no exposed credentials. No unnecessary privilege for attackers to exploit. Users get the access they need. Your attack surface shrinks and your control expands. Your breach risk drops immediately.
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