Visual Guard WinConsole

This page presents the VG WinConsole, a Windows Application provided by Visual Guard for Access Control Administration purposes.


Visual Guard also provides VG WebConsole, a Web Application designed for non-technical administrators and supporting a Distributed Administration Model. You can read more about the VG WebConsole here.

Visual Guard WinConsole

User Management

The VG WinConsole includes a User Management module.
This module allows the administrator to manage Username/Password accounts

Manage Username Password Accounts
Fig 2 - Managing Username/Password Accounts

The Administrator can also declare Windows Accounts and Windows Groups in the VG Repository, in order to grant them Roles and Permissions.

Then the administrator can grant Roles to User Accounts

Grant Role to Users
Fig 3 - Granting Roles to Users

For Username/Password accounts, the Administrator can define a specific Password Policy to comply with internal security policies.

Edit Password Policy
Fig 4 - Defining a Password Policy

Permission Management

The VG WinConsole includes a Permission Management module.
This module allows developers to define the permissions related to their application.

Manage Permissions
Fig 5 - Managing Permissions

Developers also define Permission Sets

Manage Permissions Sets
Fig 6 - Managing Permission Sets

Finally, they group Permissions into Permission Sets

Group Permissions into Permission Sets
Fig 7 - Grouping Permissions into Permission Sets

For more flexibility, developers can define a hierarchy of Permission Sets: each one inherits its Parent’s permissions.

Group-Permissions Set into Parent Permission Sets
Fig 8 - Grouping Permissions into Parent Permission Sets

Dynamic Permissions

Whenever necessary, developers can use the VG*DynamicPermissions technology: the actions that change the application when the permission is applied are defined with the VG WinConsole, and Visual Guard dynamically executes these actions when the application is running. Your code remains unchanged: you do not have to write or maintain any security code in your application. You can read more about VG*DynamicPermissions technology here.

Define Dynamic Ations
Fig 9 - Defining Dynamic Actions

Role Management

The VG WinConsole includes a Role Management module.
This module allows developers or administrators to define Roles and grant them to users.

Visual Guard provides 2 types of Roles:
1 – Shared Roles contain permissions for several applications. For example, you may use Shared Roles when your security model includes a limited number of Roles with a large number of applications.

Manage Shared Roles
Fig 10 - Managing Shared Roles

2 – Application Roles contain permissions for only 1 application.
For example, you may use Applications Roles when your security model requires more flexibility and the possibility to grant several roles for several applications to each user.

Manage Roles
Fig 11 - Managing Application Roles

Each Role is then defined by the Permission Sets it contains:

Grant Permission Set to Role
Fig 12 - Grouping Permissions Sets into Roles

Finally, the administrator relates Users to Roles:

Grant Users to Roles
Fig 13 - Granting Users to Roles

Auditing & Reporting

The VG WinConsole includes an Auditing and Reporting module.
This module allows auditors to review and document the security of the applications.

Auditors can generate documentation about the current security data (User accounts, Permissions and Roles granted, etc.)
See an example of report (.pdf)

Generate a Security Report
Fig 14 - Reporting

Auditors can also review user operations in real time. Whenever needed, they can focus on a specific transaction: for instance, they can filter for a specific type of operation, a given user, during a given period in time, etc.

Auditing - Event Viewer - secured application
Fig 15 – Using the Event Viewer for Auditing purposes.

Global Settings

Manage Visual Guard Security Repositories
Fig 16 - Managing Repositories

Manage Applications secured by Visual Guard
Fig 17 - Managing Applications secured by Visual Guard