NetIQ Aegis Adapter for Secure Configuration Manager
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Automating the assessment and reporting of system configuration reduces risk, makes compliance less costly, and speeds remediation of risky vulnerabilities. The combination of NetIQ Aegis and NetIQ Secure Configuration Manager enables you to define and automate the processes for assessing the configuration of systems, reporting on the results and enforcing compliance standards. It also enables the integration of security and compliance management programs to enable your organization to operationalize security, streamline compliance and enhance the security of critical hosts and sensitive information such as customer data.
Examples of Automated Processes with Secure Configuration Manager and NetIQ Aegis
A few examples of automated configuration assessment and management include:
- Closed-loop exception management to ensure full and appropriate segregation of duties, and complete documentation of the exception management process
- Integration with security event management to generate up-to-date configuration and change reports to support correlation and forensic analysis
- Escalating unmanaged changes to security analysis teams to ensure protection of critical hosts
Key Features and Benefits
- Improve assessment and reporting quality: Automated processes for configuration assessment and reporting ensure rapid detection and review of mis-configuration to reduce vulnerability, improve audits and increase security
- Reduce workload: Respond to vulnerabilities or policy violations with fully automated review and remediation through automated processes while preserving best security practices for segregation of duties and integrating configuration assessment with ticketing systems for automated updates
- Reduce response times: Fully integrate security solutions for both configuration assessments and event management to provide the fastest possible response to incidents with the maximum information available to your administrators and security professionals
- Reduce the cost of enforcing critical host policy compliance: Automation helps reduce the costs of securing hosts and achieving compliance, enables more scalable, repeatable compliance programs and streamlines your organization's compliance efforts
