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Elemental Enhances Functionality of its Security Compliance Management Products
Elemental Enhances Functionality of Its Security Compliance Management Products
By WS&T Staff
May 24, 2005
Courtesy of WallStreet & Technology
Elemental Security, an enterprise information security company, announced the next release of the Elemental Compliance System (ECS)-- a solution designed to unify pcy management, host configuration and network access control in one seamlessly integrated offering. Through ECS, enterprises can express cross-platform security policies that affect individual computers and their behavior on the network, gather meaningful up-to-date information to compare to established metrics, and selectively enforce policies across a diverse, dynamic environment. In addition, this newest version delivers increased platform coverage, including agent support for Win2000 desktops, Win2000 and Win2003 servers, and Red Hat EL 3.0. Elemental also offers a deeper policy library, including templates for SOX and additional Windows OS and server applications.
"In pulling together capabilities from several security segments, Elemental's solution is differentiated from the pack in that it addresses the complete life cycle of security compliance management, and does so with powerful grouping capabilities useful in dynamic environments," said Andrew Braunberg, a senior analyst of information security at Current Analysis, in the press release.
Elemental's new release includes other key enhancements, such as automated remediation of host and application configuration policies, additional reports to further assist security administrators and compliance officers in making informed decisions about managing security policies, and multiple enhancements to further simplify the processes of managing policies throughout their compliance life cycle. Elemental's dynamic grouping capabilities also are extended to enable organizations to map policies to users based on their organizational affiliations and permissions.