Secure Configuration Manager provides hundreds of built-in security checks to help you evaluate risks in your enterprise. To properly maintain your enterprise, you need up-to-date security knowledge. Secure Configuration Manager includes an automated security content update service that delivers new security checks, policy templates, and patch‑level databases as new vulnerabilities emerge.
The Secure Configuration Manager AutoSync feature lets you regularly download and apply newly developed security knowledge in the following formats:
Secure Configuration Manager security checks
Patch-level database files
Secure Configuration Manager policy templates, which include security bulletins representing vulnerability and malicious code alerts
The patch-level database files ensure that the computers in your enterprise are running with the latest recommended patches when checking for vulnerabilities.
Downloading the latest security knowledge arms Secure Configuration Manager with updated vulnerability assessment techniques to keep your enterprise protected. Use the AutoSync service to regularly download this important security content to ensure that Secure Configuration Manager agents always audit with the latest security intelligence. The AutoSync service is a Web site-based update service.
To deliver current, reliable security content, NetIQ Corporation partners with a trusted leading security content provider. NetIQ Corporation is committed to providing timely vulnerability alerts and other security content so you can immediately use and benefit from current security expertise. You can easily download the latest security knowledge using the built-in AutoSync service.