NetIQ Secure Configuration Manager Reporting and Analysis
NetIQ understands the ever-growing needs of security managers to have powerful, flexible reporting at their fingertips. Whether you need to report on policy compliance, evaluate security against well-known standards, analyze user accounts and passwords, query system configuration variables or perform other checks, NetIQ Secure Configuration Manager supplies you with the tools to meet your reporting and analysis needs.
Turn data into actionable knowledge with NetIQSecure Configuration Manager's advanced reporting and analysis capabilities:
- Produce risk-based reports. Some systems in your environment are more critical than others. This must be reflected in your system audit reports. With NetIQ Secure Configuration Manager, you can assign importance levels to each of your assets and be assured that the system's criticality will be reflected in the asset's audit score.
- Identify changes to systems over time. Delta reporting enables you to compare two different snapshots of a system or set of systems taken at different times to easily identify changes.
- Collect data efficiently and easily. Benefit from NetIQ Secure Configuration Manager's single repository containing all your management information—all query, assessment and analysis results are collected in a central, protected server, enabling a central view of your security.
- Generate never-before-seen metrics on policy compliance and security. Leverage NetIQ Secure Configuration Manager's scored security checkup reports to generate metrics for executives and managers—from the highest level of the business down. All checkup reports are organized according to your IT asset map, enabling drill down into business units, geographies or other structures. After all, you can't manage what you don't measure.
- Provide comprehensive information for remediation. Check-up reports can include description, risk, remedy, and comments for each check in the report. This ensures that everyone understands the evaluation and how to address any vulnerabilities identified in the report.
- Access reporting easily. Ad hoc and scheduled reporting with NetIQ Secure Configuration Manager's customizable templates and extensive out-of-the-box reports makes it simple to develop compelling views of your security. Reports can be accessed from the console, Intranet, or e-mail.
- Create your own templates or import from others. Checkup templates are very easy to create and customize, to match your policies and standards or to evaluate against best practices. You can also download and use templates from the NetIQ support site.
- Leverage leading practices. New security checkup templates report on compliance with Center for Internet Security (CIS) Benchmarks, SANS/FBI Top 20, AusCERT checklists and regulatory security drivers such as HIPAA, Gramm-Leach Bliley Act, Sarbanes-Oxley and FDA access control requirements. New checks and actions have also been included for many platforms.
- Distribute reports automatically. Configure NetIQ Secure Configuration Manager to automatically e-mail a PDF copy of a report when it has been completed. It provides numerous export options, including to popular office applications as well as publishing to the web for easy access.
