Configuresoft Extends ECM to Drive Organizations into Continuous Compliance.COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- New Release Enables Compliance Visibility through Extended Platform Coverage and Operational Dashboards Configuresoft, an innovator in systems management technology and the creator of enterprise continuous compliance management, today announced the availability of the latest version of 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. ) version 4.8. ECM offers cross-platform visibility for compliance to corporate policies, regulatory mandates such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), 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 , FISMA FISMA Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 FISMA Federal Information System Management Act , DISA 1. (body) DISA - Defense Information Systems Agency. 2. (standard) DISA - Data Interchange Standards Association. , ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 17789 and industry best practices including PCI DSS and Microsoft Security and Hardening Guides. "EMA (1) (Enterprise Management Architecture) An earlier strategic plan from Digital for integrating network, system and application management. It provided the operating environment for managing a multi-vendor network. research shows 60 percent of service impact is due to configuration problems. Incorrect software versions or patch levels can cause application incompatibility, and can slow (or completely halt) business service," said Andi Mann, senior analyst, Enterprise Management Associates. "Configuresoft's ECM provides particular strength in its approach to policy enforcement and continuous compliance, and the continually updated knowledge base provided by its Center for Policy and Compliance (CP&C) team. Enterprises implementing ECM will benefit from improved service and performance, increased compliance, reduced downtime, reduced help and service desk intervention, reduced cost of management resources, risk mitigation and improved security." Executive Dashboards Enable Compliance Reporting Transparency ECM enables enterprise visibility and actionable regulatory, security and operational control to ensure continuous compliance for distributed IT infrastructures. This release uniquely embraces a new generation of cutting edge technologies through the following enhanced features: --Enterprise-wide compliance transparency - Compliance Dashboards provide unified, consistent reporting up and down the IT management team for regulatory mandates and industry best practices. --Extended platform coverage - ECM supports a wide range of platforms including Windows 2000, XP and 2003, 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). AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. , HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. , Solaris, Linux RedHat. This version also supports 64-bit Windows technologies. --Industry leading, cross-platform regulatory toolkits - Developed by Configuresoft's CP&C, ECM delivers out-of-the-box compliance knowledge for SOX, HIPAA, GLBA, FISMA, DISA and ISO 17789. --Web-based compliance management - Centralized management, rationalization and compliance of UNIX/ LINUX configurations, applications, and administrative scripts occur through ECM's Web-based console. "As organizations continue to build compliance competencies, continuous measurement and optimization of IT processes are essential to driving the cost out of the compliance process," said Andrew Bird, vice president at Configuresoft. "By reporting trends over time, organizations will now have immediate feedback on the effectiveness of their compliance initiatives. ECM's new dashboards correlate configuration and change tracking information with compliance standards. This drives configuration intelligence into the decision support process, compelling organizations to continuously improve business performance." About Enterprise Configuration Manager By standardizing server and client configurations by role, ECM ensures continuous operational compliance to regulatory, industry and corporate standards throughout a computing infrastructure. Sustained by the industry's most proven scalable architecture, ECM collects tens of thousands of detailed asset, security and configuration data settings from each server and workstation--storing that information in a centralized configuration management database (CMDB CMDB Configuration Management Data Base CMDB Composite Modified Double Base (Propellant) CMDB Control and Monitor Display Builder CMDB Call Management 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, GLBA, Sarbanes-Oxley and FISMA. About Configuresoft's Center for Policy & Compliance Configuresoft's Center for Policy & Compliance (CP&C) is comprised of a team of security and policy experts, IT auditors and early contributors to the Federal mandates and industry best practices. While the goal includes helping administrators better understand and evaluate the security of their network, the driving factor behind the CP&C is to help the market gain a better understanding of the tools that can help plan and implement automated strategies that effectively address regulatory and policy compliance issues. About Configuresoft Configuresoft is an innovator in systems management technology, ensuring continuous compliance with internal policies and external regulations. The Company's enterprise configuration, compliance and remediation products address both operations and IT security. Customers around the world, including BP, Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Shield A US not-for-profit health care insurer that is a reimbursement intermediary for physicians. Cf Blue Cross. , Citigroup, the U.S. Army, and 11 of the 25 largest organizations, rely on Configuresoft Enterprise Configuration Manager's quick deployment and immediate ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). . To contact Configuresoft, please call (888) U-CONFIG (888-826-6344) or visit www.configuresoft.com. |
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