Altiris® SecurityExpressions™
Proactive Security Configuration Management
Data Sheet: Compliance and Security Management
Confidence in a connected world.
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Overview
One of the leading causes of security breaches and loss
of data is improperly configured systems. Achieving and
maintaining conformity across multiple systems
challenges even the most technically adept and
process-focused organizations. Even more complex is
the ongoing validation that ensures that carefully-tuned
security controls remain unchanged. Symantec solutions
support an organization’s security processes through
the implementation of sound security configuration
baselines, proactive evaluation, and comprehensive
reporting.
Benefits
• Establish baseline configurations from best practices
templates, including CIS, NIST, SANS, and others
• Evaluate IT controls against Sarbanes-Oxley, PCI DSS,
HIPAA, FISMA, ISO 27001, and their regulation
requirements
• Rapidly identify systems that deviate from established
baselines
• Quickly remediate issues within ITIL-compliant change
processes
• Assess security status through interactive reporting
• Monitor the entire enterprise with support for
Windows, Linux, and UNIX
Problem Discovery Through Automation
Effective security configuration solutions empower IT
organizations to implement a comprehensive security
practice. As a result, organizations can implement
documented audit and change processes that discover
and correct lapses in standards and procedures.
Discovery of problems is achieved with automated
assessments that provide consistent analysis without
impacting staff productivity, while integrated workflow
processes ensure closed loop verification that standards
are upheld. The ability to continually manage security
configurations from definition, evaluation, remediation
through monitoring is what distinguishes Symantec
solutions from other solutions.
Build Effective Configuration Baselines
The first step to proactive security configuration
management is to define effective baseline policies.
However, developing these baselines can be a
time-consuming, difficult task that requires extensive
expertise in configuration management. Altiris solutions
from Symantec simplify the process with industry best
practices templates that can be implemented directly or
customized to meet your needs. Altiris®
SecurityExpressions™ software also supports
homegrown configuration policies. Both
methodologies accelerate deployment while ensuring
rigorous best practices protection. The resulting policies
can be tailored and published to document
administrative controls.
