Case Study: Global 2000 Energy/Utilities Company achieves dramatic endpoint risk reduction and removes 98% of local admin accounts with CyberArk Endpoint Privilege Manager

Global 2000 Company Reduces Risk Through Operational Efficiency

Warran G., an Enterprise Cyber Security Advisor at a large energy/utilities company, deployed CyberArk Endpoint Privilege Manager to tackle excessive local administrative rights and a lack of visibility into endpoint activity. The organization faced risks like pass-the-hash and same-account harvesting, and needed a way to shrink the attack surface, control who truly required admin access, and provide the SOC with timely incident reporting.

By implementing Endpoint Privilege Manager with application whitelisting and UAC-based elevation, the company removed roughly 98% of local admin accounts, drastically reducing privilege escalation risk and limiting lateral movement. The solution improved user efficiency (automatic elevation for approved apps), works online and offline, cut the number of required licenses, and gave security teams immediate visibility and reporting—also raising the advisor’s profile as a problem solver across the organization.