Protecting data and preventing unregulated access to network resources is vital for any enterprise – particularly given the increased focus on IT security and regulatory compliance. Yet even in the face of increased security demands, companies still need a flexible way to ensure that authorized employees, customers and partners can access the resources they need.

Blackbird privilege manager enables companies to meet security and regulatory requirements, while freeing IT from the burden of requests to add, change, or revoke user access. By streamlining workflows for authorizing, activating and revoking Active Directory privileges, privilege manager empowers data owners to provide strict AD policy enforcement to prevent unregulated and unauthorized access to resources.

• Manage entitlements to files, folders and other Windows resources
• Meet Active Directory compliance and security initiatives with repeatable data governance process
• Protect critical data and network resources with secure and automated internal controls
• Automate user and group provisioning to reduce data management risks and costs
• Comprehensive Active Directory audit trail for full transparency

Is too much time spent fielding requests to add, change, or revoke user access? Blackbird privilege manager takes control of the process, creating easy workflows for activating and revoking Active Directory privileges and entitlements. As a result, end users can access the resources they need — without burdening IT with manual requests and time-consuming changes.

Privilege manager enables data owners to control access and changes to their resources. It brings together data owners, end users, reviewers and approvers in a forum for communicating, authorizing, and activating entitlements:

• Data owners: configure workflows for managed data resources
• Users: request access to shares, folders, files
• Reviewers: review access requests
• Approvers: approve access requests

Create workflows to control and automate Active Directory.

Ensure the following software and hardware requirements are in place before installing Blackbird Management Suite.

Blackbird Management Suite can be deployed to 32-bit or 64-bit platforms.

Software Requirements for Blackbird Management Server

• Windows Server 2003 or later, Windows Server 2008 or later
• SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008 Express
• Active Directory
• .NET 3.5 SP1 on computers running the Blackbird client
• GPMC where the service is installed (for GPO backup)

Software Requirements for Blackbird Client

• Windows XP or later

Hardware Requirements for Blackbird Management Server

• Pentium 1 GHz minimum, 2 GHz or better recommended
• 1 GB RAM minimum, 2 GB or better recommended
• Sufficient disk space to store GPO backups

Hardware Requirements for Blackbird Client

• Pentium 1 GHz minimum, 2 GHz or better recommended
• 1 GB RAM minimum, 2 GB or better recommended