 These customers all had similar problems in managing large UNIX networks, specifically concerning the control and audit of the actions of the systems' administrators.The problem was that the "root" account used by systems administrators when reconfiguring parts of the system, was able to edit any of the audit trails created by the system.Freedman designed a new product, PowerBroker, that was similar in concept to today's sudo products, but which allowed centralized control and auditing of an entire network even down to the keystroke level, with the logs stored on a dedicated remote computer to which the system administrators typically did not have access.