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Lumension® Endpoint Management and Security Suite
Security Configuration Management
Reduce Corporate Risk with Proactive Security Configuration Management
Security Configuration Management Business Issues and Challenges
As IT environments have become increasingly complex, supporting virtual and distributed platforms, companies must ensure that they maintain control of their information and system management. IT organizations must manage multiple point-based technologies, which add complexity and cost. A new approach is required to simplify the IT environment and ensure enhanced security and IT risk management with the lowest total cost of ownership possible.
Such a solution is particularly important to effectively manage endpoint configurations. With end users regularly able to download and install software, application conflicts can occur – ultimately reducing user productivity and increasing IT operating costs due to security incidents and help desk overhead. Proactively monitoring configurations is just as important as rapidly applying critical patches because 60 percent of all exploited vulnerabilities are due to insecure configurations.¹ Government regulations and industry standards are recognizing this, which explains the recent influx of security configuration management requirements.
Without holistic visibility and standardization of endpoint configurations, IT administrators can't possibly know or manage all of the applications in the environment. A solution is needed that allows organizations to enforce a consistent endpoint configuration policy and continuously monitor and report on its adherence.
Overview
Ensure That Endpoints Are Securely Configured, Remediated and Compliant with Industry Best Practices and Regulatory Mandates
Lumension Endpoint Management and Security Suite delivers an end-to-end suite of solution capabilities across endpoint operations, security, compliance and IT risk management to reduce complexity, optimize TCO, improve visibility and deliver control back to IT.
Lumension Security Configuration Management provides out-of-the-box regulatory, standards-based assessment and industry best practices templates to ensure endpoints and applications are not only patched, but also properly configured. It seamlessly integrates with its proven, market-leading solutions, Lumension Scan and Lumension Endpoint Management and Security Suite: Patch and Remediation, to deliver a comprehensive network and agent-based risk assessment of software flaws and configuration vulnerabilities, rapid remediation, continuous validation and policy compliance reporting. Lumension Security Configuration Management provides:
- Management of security configuration baselines for workstations, servers and mobile laptops from a single point of control
- Continuous and proactive assessment to prevent configuration drift and ensure policy compliance
- Out-of-the-box regulatory and industry standards-based configuration templates
- Identification of configuration-based risk through monitoring and reporting on non-compliant systems
- A NIST-validated solution
How It Works
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Demonstrate Compliance with Regulatory Policies and Industry Standards
As a NIST-validated solution, Lumension Security Configuration Management provides a comprehensive list of SCAP policies with hundreds of defined checks, allowing organizations to quickly evaluate their security posture and determine what must be fixed to meet configuration requirements according to:- Microsoft Windows Security Guide Series
- NIST Special Publication 800-68
- Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIG)
- National Security Agency (NSA)
- Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Federal
Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC)
In addition, customized templates ensure that assessments are tailored to the various compliance policies that fit an organization's specific requirements.
Lumension Scan Supported Target Systems
| Operating System / Version | Discovery | Assessment | Remediation |
| Windows 2003 Server X86/X64 | |||
| Windows 2008 Server X86/X64 | |||
| Windows XP X86/X64 | |||
| Windows Vista X86/X64 |
Features & Benefits
| Key Product Features | Benefit |
SCAP Validated FDCC Scanner
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Increases Accuracy and Confidence
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Leverages Open Standards and Protocols
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Reduces IT Costs
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Policy Assessment and Compliance Management
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Simplifies Compliance
Lowers TCO
Reduces Endpoint Risk
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Policy Assessment and Enforcement
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Increases Compliance
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Centralized User Interface
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Reduces IT Costs
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Security Posture Reporting
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Increases Visibility of Security Posture
Ensures Constant Audit-Readiness
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Mature Delivery Platform for Assessment and Reporting
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Security Configuration Management Capabilities Integrated
into Proven Vulnerability Management Solution
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Requirements
Minimum Requirements - Server
| Requirements | Version |
| Hardware | A dual-core processor (any speed) 1 GB RAM 32 GB of available disk space |
| Operating System | Windows Server® 2003, Web Edition with SP2 or later (x86) Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition with SP2 or later (x86) Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition with SP2 or later (x86) Windows Server 2003 R2, Standard Edition with SP2 or later (x86) Windows Server 2003 R2, Enterprise Edition with SP2 or later (x86) Windows Server 2008, Web Edition (x86/x64) Windows Server 2008, Standard Edition (x86/x64) Windows Server 2008, Enterprise Edition (x86/x64) Note: Lumension Endpoint Management and Security Suite must be installed on an English operating system using any English locale (en-US, en-UK, en-CA, and so on) in its default configuration. |
| Web server | Microsoft® Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 or later. |
| .NET Framework | Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.5
Note: If not present, Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 is installed with Lumension Endpoint Management and Security Suite. |
| Web browsers | Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 or greater Mozilla®Firefox® 3.0 or greater. |
| DB Server | SQL Server 2005, Express Edition with SP3 (x86) SQL Server 2005, Standard Edition with SP3 (x86) SQL Server 2005, Enterprise Edition with SP3 (x86) SQL Server 2008, Express Edition (x86) SQL Server 2008, Standard Edition (x86/x64) SQL Server 2008, Enterprise Edition (x86/x64) Supported database servers can be installed in the following locations relative to the Lumension Endpoint Management and Security Suite server:
Note: If an instance of SQL Server is not present on your target server, SQL Server 2008, Express Edition with SP1 is installed with Lumension Endpoint Management and Security Suite (if you are not using a remote instance of SQL Server) |
Lumension Patch and Remediation Agent Coverage - Supported Client OS
| Vendor | Processor Family | OS Version | OS Edition | OS Bit |
| Microsoft Windows | X86/x64 | Windows XP SP2 | Professional | 32/64 |
| Windows 2003 | Web Standard Enterprise R2 |
32/64 | ||
| Windows Vista | Enterprise Business Ultimate |
32 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 7 | Professional Enterprise Ultimate |
X86 X86_64 |
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| Microsoft Server 2008 | Web Standard Enterprise |
X86 X86_64 |
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| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 | Web Standard Enterprise |
X86 X86_64 |
Minimum Requirements with Lumension Scan
| Hardware | Pentium® compatible 1 GHz Single 100 Mbps network connection 20GB of available disk space 512 MB RAM |
| Operating System | Windows 2000 Server SP4 Windows Server 2003 SP1 Windows XP Professional SP2 Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP4 |
| .NET framework | Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0+ |

