Compliance comforter offered by Symantec
Compliance comforter offered by Symantec
Nov 18, 2004: Information security vendor Symantec has announced several new features in its Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) policy compliance application that enables organisations to effectively manage business risks by identifying threats and measuring compliance to security practices and regulations.
Symantec ESM 6.1 delivers compliance reporting using a reporting framework, powered by business intelligence vendor Cognos. The reporting framework delivers access to security audit findings, meeting the information needs of everyone from the executive to the security administrator.
Organisations can create a wide variety of impromptu reports or produce advanced reports using the advanced report-authoring tool. Reports can be automatically scheduled and delivered via email or accessed through a new web portal. Symantec ESM also provides more than 75 predefined reports showing compliance state and trends, specific violations and configuration changes on host systems.
In addition, Symantec ESM simplifies regulatory compliance with new pre-configured policy assessment templates for a range of new Acts, including Sarbanes-Oxley.
"Organisations must develop and deploy network security policies to protect against today's sophisticated threats," said Rowan Trollope, vice president, security management at Symantec. "Symantec ESM is a powerful tool that helps maintain information availability and security by ensuring systems are compliant with stringent regulatory standards and that unpatched vulnerabilities are discovered, contained and fixed promptly."
Symantec ESM provides centralised and automated security analysis of organisations' critical business applications and operating systems for greater understanding of the overall information environment. Performing more than 2,500 different security and vulnerability checks automatically, it offers accurate security assessment on a broad range of operating system platforms, including newly added support for Windows, Unix, Linux, OS/400, NetWare and VMS systems.
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