Traditional PAM slows you down. ThreatLocker Elevation Control secures privileges without sacrificing agility.
Admin privileges are a prime target for cybercriminals—and a common entry point for ransomware and lateral movement. Yet most PAM solutions are complex, time-consuming, and built around outdated models of identity-based access that slow down operations and frustrate users. Plus, in some cases, the traditional PAM solutions pose a security risk based on how they are elevating programs.
ThreatLocker Elevation Control changes the game.
It grants application-level elevation—not user-level access—giving you precise, secure control over what can run with admin rights, and nothing more.
Why ThreatLocker Elevation Control?
ThreatLocker Elevation Control empowers you to eliminate standing privileges without removing essential access.
- Dormant accounts, excessive permissions, and misconfigurations create open doors for attackers to exploit
- Once inside, threat actors use admin access to impersonate users, manipulate native tools, and move undetected
- Managing and revoking admin rights manually is time-consuming and error-prone—especially across large or fast-growing environments
- Grant elevation only to approved applications—and set automatic expiration to limit exposure.
- Track every elevated action in real time with detailed audit logs.
- Use agent-level elevation to enforce least privilege without relying on temporary admin accounts or native Windows prompts.
We know too well that full admin rights are too much power in the hands of anyone—even your trusted users.
Elevate only what’s needed, when it’s needed
- Deploy ThreatLocker in Learning Mode to inventory all applications in your environment
- Grant elevated privileges only to the applications that truly need them.
- Users run approved apps with elevated privileges, without needing full local admin rights
- Need a new app elevated? One-click request, real-time approval, no admin credentials exposed
And with Ringfencing™, you can go further: Contain elevated apps to prevent lateral movement, credential theft, or application hopping.
No stored passwords. No shared admin accounts. No more overexposed credentials.
Here are just some of your advantages with ThreatLocker Elevation Control.
Stronger security posture
- Shrink your attack surface by eliminating unnecessary admin access
- Elevate only pre-approved applications—and contain them with Ringfencing for added control and protection
- Prevent credential theft by removing the need to manually enter admin passwords
Less operational friction
- Users run the tools they need—without creating support tickets
- Elevation can be time-limited, app-specific, and user-bound
- No full local admin rights, no waiting, no productivity lost
Smarter granular control
- Grant elevation by app, user, group, or time window
- Auto-remove unused or unauthorized local admin accounts
- Monitor, log, and audit every elevated session
why replace traditional pam?
YES
Rare / complex
YES
Often required
NO
Credentials often shared/typed
Built-in
Typically manual or ticket-based
YES
Heavy setup and infrastructure
YES
No equivalent
YES
Often complex to configure
YES
May block necessary tasks
Privilege Management reimagined for stronger defense with Zero Trust
You don’t need full admin rights to get the job done. And you shouldn’t have to choose between security and productivity. ThreatLocker Elevation Control gives you the power to control elevation without compromise, and without traditional PAM overhead.
Book your demo today and see how fast and secure privilege management can be.
HEAR FROM OUR CUSTOMERS
Once we have a clean machine, the first thing I install is ThreatLocker. It lets me elevate privileges without entering a password repeatedly during setup, and it kicks off that endpoint’s audit trail from day one.
Jack Harbut
IT & Systems Manager
Stampede Culinary Partners
Three of the best things about ThreatLocker are: first, the support from the Cyber Hero Team is second to none; second, the ability to increase your security posture while minimizing negative business impact; and third, the way it streamlines your security stack by consolidating disparate tools.
Jack Thompson
Director Information Security
Indianapolis Colts
We can allow through Elevation Control, we can give the users the ability to install that application themselves with a simple click. We need to make sure that the application is approved... But just the ability to allow the user to install the application on their own, is a huge plus for us and it has saved us so much time.
Victor Porras
Senior Director of Information Technology
Orlando Magic
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