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Secure Configuration Manager lets you perform security audits of your IT assets by running security checks and policy templates. These assessments enable you to determine how well each asset in your IT environment complies with your company security policies and technical standards.

Security checks test endpoints for a specific configuration setting or security risk on a specific platform, such as user privileges for an Oracle database. Policy templates are a collection of security checks that your assets for a specific set of issues, such as those defined by the PCI DSS standards.

When you run a policy template against an endpoint or a group of endpoints, the resulting report contains a set of security checks, actual values for those checks, and scores. This capability provides a clear view of the current exposures in your enterprise.

For more information about this software product, see the NetIQ Secure Configuration Manager documentation.