Breaking News - Security:
BigFix Unveils Unified Security, Configuration, Mgmt
Solution
BigFix released BigFix Enterprise Suite (BES) 5.0, a major platform release
that unifies traditionally discreet security, configuration and systems
management capabilities under a common infrastructure. BES 5.0 fundamentally
improves the control and simplicity with which IT organizations can manage the
health, performance and security of desktops, laptops and servers across large
networks.
BES 5.0 is the industry's first real-time solution that allows IT
organizations to handle common security, configuration and systems functions,
including patch management, mobile and endpoint security, configuration
management, antivirus and personal firewall management, asset discovery and
inventory, and software distribution in a unified environment. Core to the
BigFix solution is its real-time capabilities that arm administrators with
accurate, up-to-the-minute information and enable the management of the
security and configurations of all their computers more easily and faster than
ever before.
"Among the many approaches to systems software, configuration and security
management, BigFix offers a distinctive differentiation of this trend in the
way it unifies all three disciplines in a single architecture," said Scott
Crawford, senior analyst at Enterprise Management Associates. "Because of its
agent-based approach and unique Fixlet Message technology, BigFix enables key
efficiencies of rapid response, flexibility and significant scalability
applied to a number of system management priorities, security policies and
best-practice standards prior to gaining enterprise network access."
"BigFix Enterprise Suite 5.0 provides large enterprises with a single
platform
for addressing security vulnerabilities, maintaining proper configurations and
better managing their systems in real-time across tens of thousands of
desktops, laptops and servers," said Gregory Toto, vice president of product
management at BigFix. "We have worked hand-in-hand with our customers to
deliver a solution that helps enterprises gain significantly more value from
their IT infrastructure by both securing their organizations from
vulnerabilities and making the solutions they already deploy work more
effectively."
BES 5.0 introduces new innovations in the following areas:
- Security: Extends BigFix's vulnerability and security
configuration
capabilities and introduces new solutions for antivirus management, policy
compliance, host-based firewall management and security best practices.
- Configuration Management: Provides new functionality for
common
configuration management functions, including software deployment, inventory
discovery, license tracking, usage monitoring and software provisioning.
- Systems Management: Delivers visibility into non-computing
network
assets,
such as routers, switches and printers and simplifies the identification of
desktops, servers and laptops within the enterprise that are currently
unmanaged by BES.
New features and options in BES 5.0 include:
- BES Analyses: Simplify security and IT reporting and
auditing
and
extend
BES's extensive capabilities to provide real-time visibility into the
hardware, software and run-time environment of managed computers.
- BES Fixlet and Task Authoring: Integrated authoring tools
provide
IT
with
a
new level of control to automate detection and remediation of vulnerability
and configuration issues on Windows, Linux, Unix and Macintosh computers.
- BES Wizards: Simplify and speed common configuration
management
operations
such as deploying applications, changing a setting on a group of computers,
rolling-back patches and enforcing configuration policies.
- BES Visualization: Allows administrators to view and
investigate
properties
of their entire network or a particular subset of the network using
organizational and grouping hierarchies in real-time.
- Asset Discovery: Enables IT organizations to integrate data
from
network
scanners and other data sources into a unified view to deliver visibility into
network assets and to help identify unmanaged desktop, laptops and servers
within the enterprise.
- Client Compliance API: On-endpoint interface enables the
BES
Agent
to
interoperate with network access control technologies, such as VPN clients,
firewalls and network access control appliances to provide automated
assessment and remediation of non-compliant computers before they connect to
the enterprise network.
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