An excellent security compliance management solution from Elemental Security, Inc. This product helps enterprises manage the security of their networks according to compliance requirements, and is the first and only solution to provide the necessary visibility, control and automation to centrally manage the configuration, network access and compliance of all computers on a network.
Performance: Supports up to 10,000 agents per server and 100,000 observed/discovered computers. Number of policy management rules - 2,000.
Platforms Supported: Supported agent platforms include Windows 2000 Pro, 2000 Server, 2003 Server, XP Professional SP1 and SP2; Sun Solaris 8, 9 and 10 (SPARC); Red Hat Linux 9 EL 2.1, 3.0 and 4.0; AIX 5.2/5.3, HP-UX 11i; Mac OS X (Panther, Tiger); Web-based management console.
Key Features & Benefits:
Policy management, host configuration, inventory management, and network access control unified in one seamlessly integrated offering
Reduces security incidents and costs
Reduces time, cost for audits
Decreases effort to monitor and enforce policies
Detects anomalies, high risk assets quickly
Provides metrics to expose non-compliance
Reduces risk from unmanaged systems
Highlights: The most important distinction about Elemental’s product is that it provides the world’s first and only unified policy infrastructure, allowing customers to manage and solve a class of problems they could not previously address in an automated way. As an example, before Elemental, customers had no easy way to implement or manage the following real-world policy in a typical, always-changing enterprise environment: “Only employees in the finance department whose computers are compliant with the Sarbanes-Oxley policy should access the SAP data store.” Elemental’s multiple technical breakthroughs are designed to provide a single framework that seamlessly combines four traditional product disciplines: rich inventory, policy management, host configuration management, and network access control in an easy-to-use manner. Now, with the Elemental Compliance System, customers can manage all kinds of policies in one place, such as a business policy that connects and crosses multiple technical domains – organizational departments (Finance), complex policy expression (SOX), network access control and application resources (SAP data). Analysts and customers alike have vetted this approach and recognize the power of this young product.
Users: While the Elemental Compliance System provides benefits to any organization that is security management conscious and is tasked with adhering to security policies (both internal and regulatory), it is especially beneficial to organizations with stringent regulatory and/or security requirements, such as those in the financial services, government, high-tech and healthcare sectors. Customers tend to be large businesses with 3,000 computers or more. The primary end-users within these organizations are the Chief Security Officers and their senior security personnel. The secondary users are IT operations folks. Reports produced by the system may be consumed by CSOs or business counterparts, such as CIOs or equivalent.
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Elemental Security, Inc.
155 Bovet Road, suite 100
San Mateo, CA 94402
Tel: 1-650-292-1400
Fax: 1-650-292-1401
info@elementalsecurity.com
www.elementalsecurity.com
