Security Management Solutions for IT Operations
IT Operations groups are faced with the unenviable task of understanding what IT assets are in the network, ensuring the availability and bandwidth of enterprise IT assets, responding to the impact of network and system breaches, managing software and hardware inventories and configurations and managing employee access to different assets and data throughout the enterprise. New vulnerabilities are exposed and targeted on a daily basis - many of which must be addressed immediately. And without proper security management solutions, end users can easily install and run applications that can negatively impact the integrity and stability of network endpoints.
Consider that IT Operations must manage and respond to a whole host of issues, such as:
- Twenty-four vulnerabilities which are identified each day, 12.5 of which are considered serious enough to address immediately¹
- The speed at which hackers are identifying and exploiting vulnerabilities through the use of automation - 8,064 reported in 2006²
- The amount of unlicensed software that is used throughout the enterprise - 27% of all software on business computers is unlicensed³
- Laptops and desktops that must be rebuilt due to malware and configuration issues – 85% of corporate machines are rebuilt each year4
- Network disruptions or outages – the average enterprise downtime is 23 person days with average time to achieve full recovery at 31 person days4
Lumension Security Management Solutions Enable Visibility and Management of Corporate Endpoints
Lumension’s proven policy-driven solutions enable IT Operations groups to effectively manage the availability, performance and integrity of network endpoints.
Through comprehensive scanning of all network devices and endpoints, Lumension security management solutions deliver IT Operations groups with actionable information of their IT environments by discovering and inventorying all assets, providing accurate assessments of software vulnerabilities and configuration issues and prioritizing identified threats for orderly remediation.
Best First Line of Defense
By enforcing application and device control policies, which enable only authorized applications to run and only authorized devices to be accessible on a network, server, terminal services server, thin client, laptop or desktop, Lumension solutions give IT Operations groups the power to maintain endpoint configurations, stability and performance as originally delivered from the manufacturer. Administrators can rapidly identify applications and devices and assign granular permissions per user/user group and per machine. Lumension security management solutions also lower endpoint security total cost of ownership by minimizing the amount of time required by the IT Operations team to immediately respond to network or endpoint crises.
Best Last Line of Defense
Through the delivery of rapid and automated patch and remediation of software vulnerabilities and configuration issues, Lumension security management solutions enable IT Operations to effectively resolve potential issues before they cause problems. By establishing and enforcing mandatory baselines, IT Operations groups can shut the door on vulnerabilities before they can be exploited.
The final result is an available network and corporate endpoints, and thus a business that is open 24x7.
Lumension Security Management Solutions for IT Operations:
- Provides network and agent-based scanning capabilities to identify all IT assets
- Automates patch and remediation of vulnerabilities
- Enables custom remediation of configuration issues
- Maintains endpoint stability and integrity by allowing only authorized applications to execute and only authorized devices to be accessed
- Records all attempts at executing authorized and unauthorized applications as well as all attempts at connecting authorized and unauthorized devices
- Reduces the risk of network disruption or outage
1 National Vulnerability Database – May 9, 2007
2 www.cert.org
3 UK Business Software Alliance
4 Yankee Group