Key Features and Benefits

• Reduce configuration assessment time so you can define comprehensive configuration policy templates. Security analysts and auditors can then use those templates to automatically evaluate systems on a regularly scheduled basis. With NetIQ's solutions, you can evaluate and report on many systems at once in the way that makes the most sense for your business. Then you can automatically distribute reports to those who need them. You can also quickly identify changes in a system since the last audit with a delta report.
• Perform real-time monitoring of your security infrastructure to monitor all of your best-of-breed security point products via a central security console, enabling real-time notification and response to suspicious activity detected by remote security sensors. High performance correlation helps to minimize false alerts, and drastically reduces the high volumes of noise generated by security events. Alert your security staff to non-compliant firewall configurations or out-of-date virus signatures — in addition to real-time intrusion alerts.
• Consolidate and analyze event logs so you can store event log entries from across your enterprise in a centralized repository, easing the burdens associated with log management across heterogeneous environments. This prevents intruders from covering their tracks, maintains a chain of custody for evidence purposes and satisfies regulatory log retention requirements. Easy-to-view graphical reports enable you to quickly review logs on a regular basis for anomalies without scanning a six inch thick printout of your audit logs.
• Reduce vulnerabilities so you can proactively harden systems by quickly identifying the vulnerabilities of all sources, including configuration flaws, missing patches, unprotected user accounts and dangerous services. Real-time security updates ensure you have the latest information and checks for vendor patches, known vulnerabilities, and dangerous exploits such as the Sasser worm.
• Improve security knowledge via the most comprehensive and current security knowledge. From hundreds of built-in checks and policy templates to the latest patch databases to built-in alert and correlation rules. NetIQ's solutions ensure that you are armed with the knowledge you need to keep your IT environment secure. Combine this built-in knowledge with your own customer checks, templates, alerts, rules, and response instructions to create a powerful defense against today's ever-changing security world.
• Manage and measure risk so you can assess the level of threats posed by vulnerabilities and compliance exceptions against the importance of managed assets to understand the true risk level of your IT assets. These measurements enable you to produce powerful metrics that illustrate risk on a system-by-system as well as a group, business unit, and enterprise level.
• Protect the entire enterprise by supporting numerous operating systems and databases, as well as Microsoft IIS Web Server. With NetIQ's solutions, you have options for both agent and agentless assessments to meet your security needs and network architecture requirements.