ARCON Endpoint Privilege Management

Endpoint Privilege Management (EPM) addresses threats created when privileged access originates from laptops, tablets, smartphones, and other endpoints. As privileged access expands beyond a small set of administrators to include broader, task-based access across legacy systems and multi-cloud infrastructures, EPM and PAM capabilities must support Zero Trust and Least Privilege models, including Just-in-Time (JIT) elevation. The growth of remote and ultra-hybrid workforces has further stressed identity and security frameworks, increasing the need for secure, low-friction privilege escalation to dynamic, sometimes ephemeral resources across cloud, on-premises, partner, and even mainframe environments—an evolution aligned with the Dynamic Resource Entitlement and Access Management (DREAM) paradigm.

ARCON, founded in London in 2006 with global presence and R&D in Mumbai, offers ARCON Endpoint Privilege Management as a centralized, role- and rule-based system deployable on-premises or in the cloud, accessed via an authorized browser. Its core workflow is straightforward: users request elevated rights to install or run applications or change system configurations, and administrators approve or reject requests, increasingly on a JIT basis rather than through standing privileges. The platform integrates a User Behaviour Analytics (UBA) engine with Machine Learning and AI to detect misuse patterns and suspicious behavior, and it categorizes alerts by risk severity.

Beyond privilege control, ARCON emphasizes endpoint data governance features uncommon in EPM. It supports application blacklisting, browser restriction, USB copy blocking and upload detection, data classification and exposure insight via ARCON Data Intellect, and real-time File Integrity Monitoring with history and rollback. ARCON EPM can stand alone or serve as an entry point to ARCON’s broader PAM ecosystem, including DevOps secret controls, SSH key support, application-to-application password management, and SSH command restriction via ARCON Guard. Strengths include simplicity, analytics integration, and strong data governance; challenges include a dated interface, marketing needs, and potential overkill for some buyers.

• Endpoint Privilege Management tools provide controlled, monitored escalation of user privileges on endpoints.
• ARCON was founded in London in 2006.
• ARCON has its Operations and R&D center in Mumbai, India.
• ARCON Endpoint Privilege Management can be implemented on cloud or on premises.
• End users connect to ARCON EPM from an endpoint via an authorized browser.
• Privileged requests in ARCON EPM require administrator approval before elevation occurs.
• ARCON EPM includes an attached User Behaviour Analytics engine for compiling and filtering endpoint activity data.
• ARCON EPM can automatically block execution of applications that are on an application blacklist.
• ARCON EPM can automatically block file copying via USB to a third-party device and detect uploads from USB devices.
• File Integrity Monitoring can track unauthorized file changes in real time and support rollback if needed.

• “Managing dynamic privileged access from endpoints must be secure and friction free if it is to succeed in delivering value to the organization and convenience to users.”
• “ARCON Endpoint Privilege Management is based on a simple concept; an end user requests privileged access to install an application, run an application in elevated mode, or change the configuration of the system or other potentially risk activity.”
• “Such request must be approved by an administrator before it can happen.”
• “Increasingly such requests will be dealt with on a Just in Time (JIT) basis in line with Zero Trust and Least Privilege principles, rather than set up as a standing privilege account.”
• “The safe use of web browsers is often overlooked but remains a potent threat surface as attackers seek to exploit vulnerabilities in browsers.”
• “Critical alerts displayed during monitoring of endpoint privileges have categories as per the extent of seriousness and risk to the wider organization.”
• “ARCON goes a bit further with its analysis engine, however.”
• “It brings with it a level of data governance not often seen in other EPM products.”
• “Every day enterprises generate hundreds of gigabytes more business data.”
• “This level of data governance and lifecycle management is unusual in a EPM product and is very welcome, especially in the environment where remote and home working, and subsequent new data flows, is prevalent.”