Configuresoft ECM and SUM Selected as Systems Management Best of Microsoft Tech-Ed 2005 Europe Finalists.COLORADO SPRINGS Colorado Springs, city (1990 pop. 281,140), seat of El Paso co., central Colo., on Monument and Fountain creeks, at the foot of Pikes Peak; inc. 1886. It is a year-round resort and a booming military, technological, and commercial city. , Colo. -- Windows IT Pro Windows IT Pro (ISSN-1552-3136) is a trade publication and web site owned by Penton Media serving the information needs of IT professionals in various fields including data processing, software development and programming. Magazine announced that Configuresoft Enterprise Configuration Manager (ECM (1) (Enterprise Change Management) See version control and configuration management. (2) (Error Correcting Mode) A Group 3 fax capability that can test for errors within a row of pixels and request retransmission. ) and Security Update Manager (SUM) were among 29 finalists for the Best of Microsoft Tech-Ed 2005 Europe Awards conducted by Windows IT Pro Magazine and SQL Server An earlier relational DBMS from Sybase and from Microsoft. Sybase introduced SQL Server in 1988 for various Unix versions. In that same year, with help from IBM, Sybase created an OS/2 version that Microsoft licensed and branded as Microsoft SQL Server. Magazine. Configuresoft, an innovator in systems management technology and the creator of the enterprise compliance management market, is competing in the Systems Management category. Winners will be determined and announced at Microsoft Tech-Ed 2005 Europe in Amsterdam on Thursday July 7. ECM and SUM recently won Best of Tech-Ed 2005 in Systems Management at the U.S. awards ceremony in Orlando, Florida The city of Orlando is a major city in central Florida and is the county seat of Orange County, Florida. According to the 2000 census, the city population was 185,951. A 2006 U.S. . "All of the products that were evaluated for the Best of Microsoft Tech-Ed 2005 Europe awards were of exceptional quality, and the products selected as finalists stood out amongst the competition for providing the best strategic importance to the market, the highest competitive advantage to the organization, and the most value to the customer," said Mike Otey, senior technical editor for Windows IT Pro Magazine. Enterprise Configuration Manager (ECM) 4.7, ensures enterprise security for Windows, UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). and Linux platforms through proactive IT infrastructure compliance. ECM collects tens of thousands of configuration settings from each machine in an organization and puts them into a comprehensive configuration database (CCDB CCDB Cell Centered Database CCDB Colorado Criminal Defense Bar CCDB Campbelltown Camden District Band (NSW, Australia) CCDB Common Cryptologic Database CCDB Common Case Database ) to provide an enterprise view of the current state of operations. Only by gathering all available asset, security and configuration data, and centralizing it in a CCDB, can IT managers make sure that the policies they develop are appropriate for the IT infrastructure they actually have. "This acknowledgement confirms Configuresoft's core technology leadership and demonstrates the value of our products in delivering enterprise control of configuration management and security compliance to our customers," said Alexander Goldstein, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Configuresoft. "Configuresoft's solutions enable IT administrators to ensure that their enterprise systems are known and conform to Verb 1. conform to - satisfy a condition or restriction; "Does this paper meet the requirements for the degree?" fit, meet coordinate - be co-ordinated; "These activities coordinate well" the desired or mandated state, producing low cost infrastructures which comply with regulatory, security and operating standards." About Enterprise Configuration Manager and Security Update Manager ECM centralizes and automates the tasks of monitoring, managing and auditing the hardware and software configurations deployed in large enterprise networks or Web server farms. By standardizing server and client configurations, ECM ensures operational compliance to regulatory, industry and corporate standards throughout a computing infrastructure. Sustained by the industry's most proven scalable architecture, ECM collects detailed critical configuration data from each Windows, UNIX and Linux server and workstation--storing that information in a centralized database for immediate access, analysis and reporting. ECM enforces security policies by automatically resetting configurations to their pre-defined standards when an unauthorized change (or deviation) occurs. These powerful capabilities help IT organizations keep their critical systems properly configured, while ensuring security compliance with regulatory requirements such as HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996, Public Law 104-191) Also known as the "Kennedy-Kassebaum Act," this U.S. law protects employees' health insurance coverage when they change or lose their jobs (Title I) and provides standards for patient health, , GLBA GLBA Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 (Financial Modernization Act of 1999) GLBA Gay and Lesbian Business Association GLBA Great Lakes Booksellers Association GLBA Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve , Sarbanes-Oxley and FISMA FISMA Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 FISMA Federal Information System Management Act . SUM is a patch assessment and verification ECM module, ensuring enterprise security for Windows platforms through proactive IT infrastructure compliance. SUM provides automated, intelligent security remediation and patch verification for Spanish, French and Danish operating systems and applications to accommodate for the global nature of today's business and compliance efforts. By leveraging the vast repository of configuration information in ECM's CCDB, organizations can quickly conduct a pre-deployment assessment to ensure machines are configured correctly and minimum requirements are met prior to installing patches. This approach dramatically increases patch success rates in large enterprises and reduces the network bandwidth required to secure machines inside and outside of the firewall-protected DMZ (DeMilitarized Zone) A middle ground between an organization's trusted internal network and an untrusted, external network such as the Internet. Also called a "perimeter network," the DMZ is a subnetwork (subnet) that may sit between firewalls or off one leg of a . About Configuresoft Configuresoft is an innovator in systems management technology, serving eight of the 25 world's largest computing environments. Based in Colorado Springs, Colorado The City of Colorado Springs is the second most populous city (after Denver) in the state of Colorado and the 48th most populous city in the United States.[4] The city is the county seat of El Paso County. , the Company offers enterprise configuration, policy compliance and remediation products that span both operations and IT security. At a time in which organizations must maintain a continuous state of audit throughout their infrastructure, Configuresoft ensures these environments conform to any desired or mandated state. To contact Configuresoft, call 719.447.4600, visit us on the Web at www.configuresoft.com or write to info@configuresoft.com. 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