Data Sheet: Compliance and Security Management
Altiris® SecurityExpressions™
Confidence in a connected world.
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Quickly Identify Non-compliant Systems
Symantec solutions allows IT and security personnel to
conduct real-time audits. Altiris technology from
Symantec can accurately and quickly compare the
system’s configurations against the company’s existing
policy. This process allows IT managers to conduct
comprehensive audits on a frequent basis, plan and
execute remediation, and re-evaluate compliance with
minimal effort. In this manner, any security issues can
be quickly identified and addressed. Companies can
validate compliance with automated security audits
rather than discover too late that vulnerabilities exist.
Tackle Issues with Closed-loop Remediation
Integration with Altiris® Helpdesk Solution™ software
and Remedy, including extensibility to other service desk
systems, enables organizations to plan and remediate
systems while tracking configuration changes against
ITIL-compliant processes. SecurityExpressions can
automatically open an incident based on the audit
results. IT administrators can then quickly remediate
noncompliant systems using SecurityExpressions’
built-in tools or integration with other Altiris
management solutions from Symantec such as patch
management or software delivery. Once the remediation
step is complete, a secondary audit validates the fix and
the incident can be closed. Closed-loop remediation
improves IT change control processes without disrupting
system availability.
Continually Monitor Security Status
Assessing system security postures requires the ability
to not only evaluate the system, but also the ability to
easily visualize the results and assess progress.
SecurityExpressions provides concise reporting that
summarizes the results of any audit, as well as detailed
reporting that provides all of the information necessary
to remediate any vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.
Access to reports, including trend and noncompliance
reports, allows organizations to plan remediation
activities and evaluate risk-based compliance.
Organizations can even weigh each rule to produce
relative risk analysis, apply asset classification to weight
importance, and review roll-up scores for an entire
audit.
SecurityExpressions includes a comprehensive reporting function
that allows you to compile dozens of reports such as trend, summary,
noncompliance, and detail reports.
