Expand traditional Vulnerability Management Capabilities to Centralize, Automate and Streamline Desktop and System Management, Power Management, Configuration Enforcement, Software Distribution and Scripting with Lumension® Content Wizard

Every organisation has IT needs that are not completely addressed with out-of-the-box software solutions. PC configuration-related issues increase the workload on administrators and help desk staff and introduce new sources of risk. Meanwhile, in a tough economic climate, organizations are facing greater pressures to optimize IT efficiencies wherever possible including reducing the hard costs of energy consumption. Lumension Content Wizard extends the capabilities of the Lumension Vulnerability Management™ to cost-effectively streamline desktop and system management tasks with simple wizard-based policy creation and baseline enforcement – without requiring additional tools and costs. This powerful utility allows organizations to realize instant ROI and lower TCO.

Lumension Content Wizard is a powerful tool that automates tedious and time-consuming system and desktop management tasks to optimize your IT environment and take advantage of cost and resource saving options via power management capabilities. Extending vulnerability management capabilities without requiring additional solutions, Lumension Content Wizard works in conjunction with Lumension Patch and Remediation™ to provide user-friendly development and centralized management and enforcement of capabilities throughout an organization, enabling:

• Power Management: Reduced consumption by standardizing policy-based power settings of systems across the organization without the required investment of an additional power-management solution. Examples include: hard drive, standby, and hibernation settings, timing.
• Software Deployment, Upgrades and Removal: Optimize IT efficiencies and improve software usage compliance with policy-based deployment and removal of new and updated software, including automatic removal of outdated, unauthorized, or unsupported software, ongoing monitoring and baseline enforcement, identification of installed software on endpoints and policy and installation of new and updated software packages.
• Local Enforcement of Security Configuration Policies: Enforce security configuration policies based on industry best practices, such as disabling guest accounts, turning off unnecessary services, enforcing password complexity and length, and forcing unattended systems log off.
• Centralized Management of System Desktop Configuration Tasks and Policies: Automate time-consuming tasks across the entire network, including automated scheduling of disk defragmentation tasks, and policy enforcement for account, device control, domain, network, and system policy security settings.
• Centralized Deployment, Management and Reporting on all Scripts: Centrally deploy, manage, and report on all scripting actions throughout the organization including making sure AV is installed and distributing third party patches.

How it Works

Simplified development, management, distribution and reporting of desktop and system management configuration tasks using Lumension Content Wizard.

Enforce Local Policies: Increase your overall security posture with automated management and enforcement of local security configuration policies (e.g. disabling guest accounts, turning off unnecessary services, enforcing password complexity) based on industry best practices.


Power Savings: Easily reduce endpoint energy costs and enforce “Green” policies with centralized management and enforcement of power options including monitor, hard drive, standby, and hibernation settings.


Benefits
Optimizes IT Efficiencies and Reduces IT Costs

• By allowing you to address multiple management needs through a single solution, IT efficiency is improved resulting in operational expense savings for the enterprise.

Ensures Entire Network Security

• Provides 180-degree security coverage of both third party and custom in-house software.

Optimizes IT Resources by simplifying Patch Creation

• Rapid process-driven creation of patches.

Reduces Endpoint Energy Costs and Enforces Green Policies

• Dramatically reduces power consumption by standardizing policy-based power settings of systems across the organization without the required investment of an additional power-management solution.

Improves Operational Efficiency

• Simplifies remediation package development and provides centralized deployment, management and reporting on all custom IT scripts.

Increases Your Overall Security Posture

• Automates management and enforcement of local security configuration policies based on industry best practices.

Optimizes IT Efficiencies and Improves Software Usage Compliance

• Policy-based distribution and removal of new and updated software enables the optimization of IT and ensures compliance with software license agreements.

Optimizes IT Efficiencies

• Makes it easier for IT departments to share content with other department members – especially in air-gap environments.

Minimizes IT Work Cycles

• Allows you to be more efficient through a reduction of time required to develop custom remediation packages.

Saves IT Time

• System usability is improved making remediation package creation more efficient.

Enables You to Stay Compliant

• Allows you to simplify and maintain an up-to-date patch repository.

Reduces Risk

• The ability to respond rapidly to Zero-day threats mitigates enterprise risk with significant potential financial benefit.

Delivers One Solution for Complex Environments

• By providing system administrators a tool for addressing configuration and remediation, across operating systems, operation burden is reduced and efficiency improved.

Saves Time and IT Operating Costs

• Rapid application of content frees time for IT operations to focus on other corporate concerns.

Simplifies Compliance

• Visibility of package status helps ensure compliance with corporate operation and security policies.

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