Overview
Today's rapidly changing IT network is more distributed and virtual than ever — more data is being stored on remote endpoints, such as laptops and smart phones, and increasingly accessed through collaborative cloud-based applications. More sophisticated malware is targeting these applications as ways to gain unauthorized access to sensitive information. Mounting budget pressures are forcing organizations to look increasingly at more distributed, heterogeneous and virtual computing alternatives, in order to cost-effectively meet business objectives.
Relying upon multiple, point-based endpoint management and security technologies have added complexity to the IT environment as well as a lack of enterprise-wide visibility - 50 percent of IT professionals now cite endpoint complexity as the number one risk factor. A quick look at the numbers highlights:
Endpoint Complexity
- System administrators on average use 3-5 consoles just to manage basic endpoint security and operational functions
- Endpoints on average now have 3-6 agents running to perform different tasks
- Increased integration and maintenance costs
- Complex systems management
- Decreased endpoint performance and agent bloat
- Reduced control and visibility
- Increased IT risk
As agent bloat continues to grow, so too does the impact on endpoint performance as multiple agents and scans must be run to assess and update basic endpoint systems and polices. Relying upon multiple consoles and agents to manage endpoints impacts overall visibility of the organization's IT risk and ultimately its ability to demonstrate compliance with internal policies and external regulations. All of this drives up endpoint TCO and increased risk from today's sophisticated threats.
Instead of working in the traditional IT operations and security silos, these groups must be able to collaborate and seamlessly share information to proactively and more effectively address IT risk and systems management requirements. Only an integrated, end-to-end solution that combines best-of-breed endpoint security and operations functions, centralizes policy and event management and scales across thousands of endpoints can effectively address today's endpoint management and security challenges.
Lumension® Endpoint Management and Security Suite is an agile solution suite that reduces complexity for both security and IT operations teams, optimizes TCO, improves visibility and delivers control back to IT.
- More effective endpoint security
- Holistic visibility and policy management between IT ops & security
- Centralized agent management and reporting
- Modularly licensed products
- Scalable and agile architecture
The Lumension® Endpoint Management and Security Suite:
- Reduces complexity and TCO via an agile, single console, single agent, single server architecture that can manage thousands of endpoints regardless of their location.
- Delivers best-of-breed, modularly licensed, product capabilities that meet growing IT requirements.
- Unifies IT operational and security workflows to enable greater control, visibility, and more effective policy management while still allowing for customized, role-based user interfaces to be assigned.
- Simplifies management of systems, agents and policies in real time - from a single console.
- Optimizes resources by extending policy or remediation efforts to a single endpoint or group.
- Centralizes reporting and logging to increase accuracy, reduce the compliance burden, and enhance visibility.
Lumension® Endpoint Management and Security Suite for Endpoint Operations
- Lumension® Patch and Remediation - Reduces organizational risk and optimizes IT operations through the timely, proactive elimination of operating system and application vulnerabilities across all endpoints and servers. Heterogeneous platform and 3rd party vulnerability content support includes Microsoft® Windows®, UNIX®, Linux® Mac®, Adobe® and more.
- Lumension® Security Configuration Management - Ensures that endpoints are securely configured and in compliance with industry best practices and regulatory mandates while reducing configuration drift.
- Lumension® Power Management - Reduces endpoint power consumption costs of both online and offline endpoints.
- Lumension® Content Wizard - Delivers customized extensibility through wizard-driven and custom scripting tools to take any action on endpoints including deploying and removing software, remediating configurations, performing systems management tasks and delivering custom patches.
Lumension® Endpoint Management and Security Suite for Endpoint Security
- Lumension® Application Control – Defines and enforces trusted application usage through whitelist policies to ensure that only applications explicitly authorized or trusted are allowed to execute.
- Lumension® AntiVirus - Provides blacklist protection and removal for all malware including viruses, worms, spyware, Trojans and adware.
- Lumension® Device Control - Enforces usage policies for device and ports while providing data encryption for removable media to prevent data loss / theft.
- Lumension® Intelligent Whitelisting™ - Integrates Lumension® AntiVirus, Lumension® Application Control and Lumension® Patch and Remediation into a seamless solution workflow that enables you to dramatically improve your overall security posture, reduce operational headaches and regain control of your endpoints.
Additional Lumension Innovation
Lumension provides additional security, operational and IT risk capabilities that include:
- Lumension® Scan - Performs in-depth vulnerability assessment scans of heterogeneous IT infrastructure to proactively identify vulnerability and configuration risk.
- Lumension® Risk Manager - Imports scan data from multiple Lumension products and 3rd party scanning devices to its stand-alone interface and automates compliance and IT risk management workflows to provide necessary visibility of people, processes and technology across the entire organization.