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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.
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:
- Thirteen vulnerabilities are identified each
day¹
- Mis-configured endpoints are the root cause for
60% of all exploited vulnerabilities²
- The speed at which hackers are identifying and
exploiting vulnerabilities through the use of
automation
- 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
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How to Make Whitelisting
Operationally Efficient and Manageable |
 Lumension's
SVP of Americas, Matt Mosher sits down to discuss
the advancements in Endpoint Security with Operational
Whitelisting. |
Lumension’s 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’s 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.
Optimize Your IT Environment to Ensure an Always-On
Business
Lumension’s solutions give IT Operations groups the power
to maintain endpoint configurations, stability and performance
as originally delivered from the manufacturer:
Lumension
Vulnerability Management combines actionable vulnerability
assessment with rapid patch and remediation to effectively manage
critical risk.
With Lumension
Endpoint Protection, you can apply an application whitelist
to ensure that only authorized applications can execute on a
network, server, terminal services server, thin client, laptop
or desktop.
Lumension Data
Protection enforces data and device usage policies to
protect sensitive data from leaving the network and to protect
malicious code being introduced via removable media.
Lumension’s 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 issues.
The final result is an available network and corporate endpoints,
and thus a business that is open 24x7.
Lumension’s Security Management Solutions for IT
Operations:
- Provides network and agent-based scanning capabilities
to identify all IT assets
- Automates patch and remediation of software and configuration
vulnerabilities
- 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
Source:
- National Vulnerability Database, January 26, 2009
- IDC
- UK Business Software Alliance
- Yankee Group
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Solutions for IT Operations