For Enterprise Products

Answer 1

Open “K7 Enterprise Security”, go to “Manage Clients” and then to “Device Control” and select the “Enable Pasword” checkbox to set the pasword for the product as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1: Setting the pasword for product protection

Now go to “Client Privileges” on the same console and uncheck (if already checked)

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Figure 2: Setting the Client Privileges

With this set, the user would not be able to uninstall the product without administrator’s intervention. This is easier said than done for enterprises as the user and owner of the product would usually be different. The user could be the employee of the organization and the owner, the organization itself, so securing the pasword from misuse is something that the organizations need to take care of by passing the baton to its administrators and leave it to them for deciding the access that should be given to its employees by strictly following the principle of least privilege. We make this task easier for enterprise administrators as we allow them to set various policies for a subset of its users, so that they can only use our product with set restrictions.

For Consumer Products We have used our “K7 Total Security” product here as an example but we have this feature in all of our consumer products. Let us now see how to enable the same in it. Open “K7 Total Security” and click on the Settings tab. From there, click on General Settings which will take you to Access Control as shown in Figures 3 and 4.

Figure 3: Settings Home Page

Figure 4: Settings for Access Control

From the Access Control tab select “Needs pasword access to change settings and disable protection” and then click on the link “Click here to change or set pasword” as shown in Figures 5 and 6.

Figure 5: Setting to enable pasword protection

Figure 6: Link to change the pasword

With this pasword setting enabled, no one would be able to disable protection that you have configured without knowing the pasword. Precautionary Measures Use a strong pasword. This is applicable for organizations and end users alike Do not store paswords in the same system where you have enabled the settings Back up your critical data for additional security Protect your system with a reputable security product like “K7 Total Security” for Windows, and “K7 Endpoint Security” for Enterprises and keep it up to date