Lithnet Access Manager
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  • What's new in Access Manager v2
  • How does Lithnet Access Manager help prevent lateral movement?
  • Access Manager Editions
  • Licensing
  • Change log
  • Installation
    • Getting started
    • System Requirements
    • Downloads
    • Upgrading from Access Manager v1
    • Installing the Access Manager Server
      • Creating a service account for the Access Manager Service
      • SQL installation options
      • Installing the Access Manager Service
      • High availability options
        • Load balancing Access Manager
        • Installing Access Manager in a Failover Cluster
    • Installing the Access Manager Agent
      • Choosing between the Microsoft and Lithnet agents for LAPS support
      • Installing the Access Manager Agent on Windows
      • Installing the Access Manager Agent on Linux
      • Installing the Access Manager Agent on macOS
  • Configuration
    • Setting up Authentication
      • Setting up authentication with ADFS
      • Setting up authentication with Azure AD
      • Setting up authentication with Okta
      • Setting up smart card authentication
      • Setting up integrated windows authentication
    • Deploying Features
      • Setting up Microsoft LAPS for Active Directory
      • Setting up Microsoft LAPS for Azure Active Directory
      • Setting up Lithnet LAPS
        • Preparing the AMS directory
        • Setting the AMS directory for Lithnet LAPS clients
        • Setting up Lithnet LAPS for Azure AD joined and registered devices
        • Setting up Lithnet LAPS for domain-joined devices
        • Setting up Lithnet LAPS for macOS and Linux
        • Setting up Lithnet LAPS for standalone Windows devices
      • Setting up BitLocker access
      • Setting up JIT for computers
      • Setting up JIT for roles
    • Importing authorization rules
      • Import Microsoft LAPS permissions from Active Directory
      • Importing BitLocker permissions from Active Directory
      • Importing local administrator group membership from domain-joined Windows devices
      • Import mappings from a CSV file
      • Importing rules from the Lithnet LAPS web app
      • Performing an offline discovery of local admins
  • Help and support
    • Frequently asked Questions
    • Troubleshooting
    • Quick start guides
      • Getting started with Windows LAPS and Lithnet Access Manager
      • Getting started with Windows LAPS for Active Directory
      • Getting started with Windows LAPS for Azure Active Directory
    • Support Articles
      • KB000001: The Access Manager Agent cannot connect and logs a token-validation-failed error
      • KB000002: Users retain their admin rights after their JIT period expires
      • KB000003: Configuring the Access Manager Agent to manage an account other than 'root' on Linux
      • KB000004: Creating a log file to troubleshoot installation issues with the Access Manager Service
      • KB000005: Access Manager stops working after applying the November 2022 Windows update
      • KB000006: Migrating the Access Manager Database
      • KB000007: Adding JIT groups via Group Policy doesn't work with NTLM Disabled
      • KB000008: AMS is unable to JIT into privileged groups such as Domain Admins
    • Advanced help topics
      • Ports and traffic flows
      • Internet access requirements
      • Access evaluation in Access Manager Service (AMS)
      • Recovering from a lost encryption certificate
      • Script-based authorization
      • Customized auditing with PowerShell notification channels
      • Variables available in audit notification channels
      • Setting up audit templates
      • Backup and Restore
      • Event ID reference
    • PowerShell reference
      • Add-AmsDeviceRegistrationKeyGroup
      • Add-AmsGroupMember
      • Export-AmsServerDiagnostics
      • Get-AmsActiveDirectoryJitOptions
      • Get-AmsComputerAuthorizationRule
      • Get-AmsDevice
      • Get-AmsDeviceRegistrationKey
      • Get-AmsGroup
      • Get-AmsGroupMembers
      • Get-AmsHostConfig
      • Get-AmsJitSchedulerJob
      • Get-AmsLocalAdminPassword
      • Get-AmsLocalAdminPasswordHistory
      • Get-AmsRoleAuthorizationRule
      • New-AmsComputerAuthorizationRule
      • New-AmsDeviceRegistrationKey
      • New-AmsGroup
      • New-AmsRoleAuthorizationRule
      • Remove-AmsComputerAuthorizationRule
      • Remove-AmsDevice
      • Remove-AmsDeviceRegistrationKey
      • Remove-AmsDeviceRegistrationKeyGroup
      • Remove-AmsGroup
      • Remove-AmsGroupMember
      • Remove-AmsJitSchedulerJob
      • Remove-AmsRoleAuthorizationRule
      • Set-AmsActiveDirectoryJitOptions
      • Set-AmsComputerAuthorizationRule
      • Set-AmsDevice
      • Set-AmsDeviceRegistrationKey
      • Set-AmsGroup
      • Set-AmsHostConfig
      • Set-AmsRoleAuthorizationRule
    • Application help pages
      • Access Manager Directory configuration page
      • Access Manager Directory Devices page
      • Access Manager Directory Groups page
      • Lithnet LAPS configuration page (Access Manager Directory)
      • Access Manager Directory Registration Keys page
      • Lithnet LAPS configuration page (Active Directory)
      • Microsoft LAPS configuration page
      • Active Directory configuration page
      • Auditing page
      • Authentication configuration page
      • Computer authorization rules page
      • Role authorization rules page
      • Azure Active Directory configuration page
      • BitLocker configuration page
      • Database configuration page
      • Effective access page
      • Email configuration page
      • IP Address detection configuration page
      • Just-in-time access configuration page
      • Licensing configuration page
      • Rate limit configuration page
      • Host configuration page
      • User interface configuration page
      • Security page
    • Getting Support
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Lithnet Access Manager is a tool that allows you to safely delegate sensitive administrative access to computers in your organization in a modern and user-friendly way.

It provides a web-based interface that allows users to request local admin/root passwords, BitLocker recovery keys, and grant just-in-time administrative access to their own accounts.

It is fully compatible and works out-of-the-box with Microsoft LAPS, but also comes with its own agent, which expands LAPS coverage to Azure AD joined and registered devices, as well as macOS and Linux devices.

Access Manager provides a granular permission model, coupled with a detailed auditing system, both of which are extensible using PowerShell.

Modern authentication is a key feature of Access Manager, with support for OpenID Connect, allowing strong authentication and MFA with cloud-based identity providers such as Azure AD and Okta. On-premises providers have not been forgotten, with full support for WS-Federation (ADFS), smart cards, and if you need it, integrated windows authentication.

Defend against ransomware and other lateral movement-based attacks

Access Manager has one simple goal. To reduce the likelihood and impact of a wide-spread compromise in your environment by removing permanent administrative access to your workstations and servers. By making sure every computer has a unique local admin password (through the use of Microsoft LAPS or the Lithnet Access Manager Agent), and removing all other members of the built-in local Administrators group, you can limit the ability for credential-stealing ransomware to move laterally across your environment. Access Manager makes it as seamless as possible for admins to access LAPS passwords, or grant themselves temporary just-in-time admin access. Access Manager isn’t a silver bullet guaranteed to protect you from this type of attack, but it forms a fundamental part of a defense-in-depth strategy against them.

Features

Web-based access to local admin passwords

Access Manager provides a simple web-based and mobile-friendly interface for accessing local admin passwords for Windows, macOS and Linux devices. There’s no need for admins to install custom software, or have access to AD administrative tools to access LAPS passwords.

Administrators also have the option of forcing an expiry time when a password is accessed. This ensures that the password is rotated after use.

We use LAPS passwords ourselves, so we know they can be painful at times. We try to take away as much of that pain as possible. From using fonts where you can actually see the difference between a lower-case L and a capital I, to showing a breakdown of the password using the NATO phonetic alphabet to make it easy to read it out to someone. Have you ever found yourself needing to type a LAPS password into a Windows logon screen? Have Access Manager read the password to you while you type with its text-to-speech capability!

Whether you use Microsoft LAPS, or the Lithnet Access Manager agent, the user experience is the same.

Access historical local admin passwords

Deploying the Lithnet Access Manager Agent to your fleet allows you to upgrade to encrypted local admin passwords and gain the benefit of having previous local admin passwords stored in the directory as well. This means no more issues getting locked out of computers when they are restored from backup or reverted from a snapshot.

Just-in-time administrative access to computers

Using the same web interface, users can request that their account be added to a group that is a member of the local administrators group of the computer. This access is temporary and automatically removed after the allowed time period.

Just-in-time access to custom roles

Access Manager allows you to provide your users with just-in-time access to custom roles that you define. When a user is granted access to a role, Access Manager will add them to the corresponding Active Directory group, and automatically remove them when the allowed time period has elapsed.

Easy access to BitLocker recovery passwords

Authorized users can also request access to the BitLocker recovery passwords for a computer through the same easy-to-use web interface.

Audit success and failure event logs

All success and failure events are logged to the Windows event log and a file. Optionally, you can send audit events via email, webhooks, and even PowerShell.

The webhook functionality makes it really easy to get alerts via Slack or Microsoft Teams, and there are even built-in templates for these systems.

Modern authentication options

The web app supports traditional integrated windows authentication, as well as external authentication providers such as ADFS or 3rd party OpenID Connect providers such as Azure AD and Okta. Using an external authentication provider allows you the option of providing additional protections for the application such as multifactor authentication.

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We recommend you have a look at our other product , for a tool to help strengthen your environment against commodity password-based attacks.

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