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Your Enterprise: It’s not what you expect, it’s what you inspect

ECM collects tens of thousands of asset, security and configuration data settings across the IT enterprise and stores them in a centralized Comprehensive Configuration Database (CCDB). By leveraging the information stored in the CCDB, IT administrators can assure that the policies they develop and actions they take are appropriate for the IT infrastructure that they actually have.

ECM’s CCDB-based approach delivers improved performance and data accuracy from other enterprise products by allowing IT administrators to run enterprise reports and policies against the CCDB, not each remote client.  Traditional issues such as data gaps due to un-powered and disconnected machines and impacts to client performance are eliminated using this technologically superior approach. ECM’s unique hybrid technology combines the power of distributed computing with minimal resource consumption. This low impact approach provides secure data collection, remediation and continuous compliance monitoring capabilities.

ECM– The Key to Bridging the Security and Operations Chasm

ECM delivers powerful, enterprise information through action-based dashboards, reports, tables and alerts, all within a single web-based console.  With ECM, your organization will no longer need separate systems management and security compliance tools for Windows, UNIX and Linux platforms.  ECM’s enterprise dashboards enable organizations to understand the “big picture” and then drill down for supporting details and ultimately take action.

Performing system and security compliance remediation actions within ECM is simple. Whether it's rollback of planned or unplanned changes, deploying a security patch, closing vulnerability by enforcing configuration values, or even removing a software application, ECM easily accomplishes the task with a single click -- directly within your report. By leveraging ECM’s role-based administration, organizations can quickly delegate reporting and action functions, ensuring distributed administrators take the permitted actions only on the systems they are responsible for managing.

Managing IT Risk without Becoming an Expert:   CP&C Compliance Toolkits

ECM simplifies organizational regulatory, security and operational compliance by providing the most comprehensive “Drop & Deploy” Compliance Toolkits available in the market today.  Developed by Configuresoft’s Center for Policy & Compliance and free to our customers, ECM Compliance Toolkits deliver in-depth knowledge on how to best address problems associated with achieving and maintaining compliance. These toolkits embody industry recognized best practices and recommendations which drastically reduces the research burden on your staff. The toolkits help ensure security compliance with regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, GLBA, Sarbanes-Oxley and FISMA as well as operational best practices from vendors and industry groups.

Use ECM to bring your enterprise into compliance with your standards. Once there, ECM will regularly monitor your actual state vs. your desired state to ensure you stay that way. 
With ECM’s unique architecture, your organization will be in a continuous state of audit and compliance.

Extending Your Security and Compliance Reach Beyond the Operating System.

ECM extends your configuration management and compliance reach beyond the operating system by providing value-add modules for Microsoft and other third party applications.  Leveraging the power of the CCDB information, ECM Modules can help ensure applications and clients are configured properly, efficiently and securely and are available for such Microsoft applications like IIS, SQL, SMS and SUS.  ECM also provides full patch assessment, deployment and verification with SUM- Security Update Manager.

ECM – Security, Compliance, Control.

ECM gives administrators the power to actually eliminate most of the risks to their IT infrastructure. Administrators gain a detailed understanding of system settings and configuration controls. From this perspective administrators can establish appropriate configuration standards for the many different types of machines operating in their environments, based on industry standards and/or the organization’s own policies.  ECM will identify all deviations from standards existing in an environment showing both the desired state and the actual state for every exception. While this list might at first be sizeable, administrators will bring it into control by implementing the automated remediation tools available in ECM.

ECM 4.7 is now available. Click here to learn more.