Lower level Administrators can modify this Master Profile for local conditions, as permitted by the System Administrator. This scalable system allows user privileges to be easily mirrored from the existing organizational structure. User data recovery, password recovery and even emergency boot access are all exception-based and require no elaborate user, key or password management. Ongoing security administration, including security policy changes, changes to users, profiles and program upgrades are automatically uploaded and installed on all the PC's in the system. They can also use profiles in conjunction with system installation management software to perform silent installations of Pointsec .
Administrators create the installation profile and modify it to meet local requirements.
Furthermore, users can continue to work while Pointsec is performing its initial installation and hard disk encryption. If a user turns off the PC before the entire hard disk has been encrypted, Pointsec will resume encrypting the hard disk once the PC has been re-started from where it stopped. Like updates to security policies and user profiles, program upgrades are automatically uploaded to all the PC's in the system and installed silently without requiring user interaction or knowledge. Authorized Administrators can grant temporary access or help authorized users to change passwords through a secure challenge-response authentication procedure. This same capability is used for granting technicians temporary access to encrypted computers when a PC is being repaired, without the administrator or user being present.