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Home > Information Security Magazine > Hot Pick & Product Reviews > ZENworks Endpoint Security Management 3.5 product review |
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[TABLE]ESM earned top marks for the granularity and scope of security and control policies. There are extensive policy options for wireless and wired networks, communications hardware, firewall settings for multiple locations, antivirus/spyware and Micro- soft patches. You can use advanced scripting rules for customized rule sets and set features and alerts specific to regulatory actions. Policies are distributed via SSL through a Web services application, pulling users and groups from directory services. Policies are easily edited and instantly updated.
Alert thresholds are adjustable. For example, we enabled an alert if data in excess of 5 GB is copied to removable storage media or device.
ESM offers 10 reporting categories--adherence, alert drill-down, end point activity, encryption solution, client self-defense, integrity enforcement, outbound content compliance, administrative overrides, endpoint updates and wireless enforcement. If you want to create custom reports, however, you'll have to use an ODBC-compliant app such as Crystal Reports.
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[TABLE]While ESM provides a multitude of security and control features in a single suite, there are a number of features available in similar products we would like to have seen. For instance, we could not assign storage device control policies when encryption for the particular device was required. Also, an additional USB Drive Scanner Tool had to be installed separately from the initial installation to be able to scan and identify devices attached to USB ports.
Despite those shortcomings, policies were automatically distributed to clients. ESM blocked noncompliant clients that were assigned specific requirements (such as up-to-date antivirus signatures).
[TABLE]ZENworks Endpoint Security Management is a comprehensive solution for managing and enforcing security policies on networked devices, regardless of their location and connectivity.
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