Lumension Enterprise Reporting, a primary component of Lumension Reporting and Compliance™, is a fully customizable, centralized business intelligence solution that enables organizations to:

• Consolidate vulnerability and configuration data across the enterprise and centrally manage and analyze.
• Assess business risk through powerful and granular data vulnerability analysis.
• Demonstrate security policy and regulatory compliance status through flexible, customized vulnerability and security reporting.

How it Works

1. Gather data snapshots from each Lumension Patch and Remediation™ server in your environment, on a pre-defined, automated basis. The data is uploaded to a separate Enterprise Reporting server, via secure RSA encrypted transmissions. This ensures that data analysis does not interfere with critical assessment and remediation activities. Once uploaded, the data is consolidated into the central Enterprise Reporting data warehouse repository for centralized analysis and reporting.
2. Start your analysis at a global level, and then drill down to view specific Patch and Remediation Servers. For granular analysis, you can further drill into the results for individual groups or network devices. Graphical representations for vulnerability management, asset management, configuration conformance and trending analysis are also available.
3. Role-based access to data and reports makes it fast and easy for users to identify data that is critical to their area of responsibility. This ensures information is viewed only by individuals with proper authority. Lumension Enterprise Reporting’s open database schema integrates with any ODBC/OLEDB compliant reporting tool, including leading third party report generators from Business Objects, Crystal Reports and Microsoft.
4. Create policy-based vulnerability management reports that accurately demonstrate in real-time the status of your security posture. The reports you create will support internal policy enforcement and compliance with IT security aspects of government regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, PCI and FISMA.

Benefits
Improves Efficiency of IT Operations

• Optimize IT staff productivity and improve information flow with the organization.

Ensures Audit Readiness

• Eliminate and automate routine administration tasks to provide productive immediately actionable system information.

Delivers Multiple Views of Information

• Linked data allows IT and compliance staff to efficiently find and process the system and regulatory information.

Maintains Security

• Reporting system independence ensures no degradation of security within your enterprise.

Delivers Quick, Unified View of All Assets

• Provide your organization an at a glance understanding of risk and system status.

Integrates with Existing Systems

• Integrate vulnerability management information into your existing IT management systems to provide a unified solution for enterprise reporting.

Provides Easy Risk Assessment

• Provide the ability to assess enterprise wide risk due to configuration conformance.

Ensures Audit Readiness

• Timeliness of reporting ensures no hidden compliance or security system status will be overlooked.

Increases Productivity

• Improve IT productivity through easy to use, rapid report creation.

Maintains Compliance

• By aiding in the achievement of regulatory compliance, the enterprise helps to minimize its legal, financial, and reputational concerns.

Saves IT Time and Enhances Communication

• Reduce your operational IT staff burden and improve information flow within the enterprise.

Saves IT Time and Costs

• Reduce system storage requirements to minimize implementation and maintenance costs of reporting.