Security

Network and device security are major priorities for IT departments throughout the world.  Threats can come from many different sources including internet, wireless devices, portable storage devices, software and physical devices.  Security applications are most effective when they can see everything on the network, identify potentially harmful assets, protect the endpoints as well as the perimeter and prevent connection of unauthorized devices.  Inability to effectively manage any of these threats leaves an organization vulnerable to attack.

Centennial Discovery offers Security ISVs the most powerful and comprehensive software tool for dynamically finding, identifying and auditing all corporate hardware and software on a network in near real-time.  Discovery automatically detects new hardware on the network and alerts the administrator.  Discovery will also audit software against a gray list to alert against potentially harmful applications.

Centennial DeviceWall offers Security ISVs a powerful end point security solution to enforce desktop policies and prevent unauthorized use of portable storage devices.  DeviceWall also blocks access to wireless ports to prevent anonymous, rogue device connections.  Discovery and DeviceWall offer:

  • Desktop policy enforcement
  • Removable/Portable device management
  • Bluetooth/Firewire port management
  • Software gray list management
  • Full hardware and software audit including PCs, servers, printers, switches and more
  • Complete software usage statistics
  • Asset state management
  • Dynamic device detection
  • Complete and real-time change history of all network assets
  • Scalability over heterogeneous and widely distributed environments – to 150,000 assets and beyond
  • Cross-platform (Windows, Mac, Netware, UNIX, Linux, etc.)
  • Dynamic updates – no need to wait for heavy-overhead batch processing
  • Small client footprint – creates minimal impact on client machine
  • Low bandwidth requirements – delta reporting limits message traffic
  • Low maintenance – automatic updates reduce need for administrator attention

Integrating Discovery Makes Good Business Sense

  • Improve competitive positioning by broadening and enhancing product capabilities
  • Focus on core competency of developing world class IT lifecycle management solutions
  • Bring a more powerful solution to market sooner
  • Leap-frog competition with a more powerful, integrated
  • Leverage the leading discovery tool already in use by more than 5000 customers with more than 4 million licenses deployed
  • Up-sell the new solution to existing customers
  • Effectively compete in situations where asset discovery is a requirement
  • Retain customers looking for a more powerful discovery solution

Your Customer Benefits from Using Discovery

  • Achieve quicker ROI from their IT investment
  • Reduce average help desk call time through instant visibility to hardware and software profiles including recent changes
  • Handle more calls with same number of agent s by significantly reducing walk-around time
  • Meet HIPAA, SOX and other regulatory requirements
  • Make decisions based on an accurate and up to date picture of your environment
  • Reduce IT spend through standardization and strategic purchasing
  • More easily troubleshoot network problems through greater accuracy of network assets
  • Increase employee productivity through faster incident resolution
  • Reduce training time by using a single, integrated solution instead of a multi-vendor solution

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