Reducing the Risk - Are Your PCs Security-Compliant? Pierre SD

Posted by : Allyson Klein

From viruses and worms to hackers and stolen notebooks, today's businesses face growing risk from digital attack.They also face increasing regulatory pressure to secure sensitive customer and third-party information.

To address these issues at the client level, it has become common practice to deploy security-hardened PC configurations, with features such as antivirus and firewall applications, VPN clients for remote access, and file encryption to protect information on lost or stolen mobile devices. Tobe effective, these safeguards should be backed up by automated and timely distribution of virus signatures and software security patches to all connected systems.

Even with all these precautions, however,PC security is still at risk. It can be compromised by a single security patch that fails to install properly, or an end-user who turns off a security application, downloads vulnerable software or reinstalls a failed application without appropriate patches.

Given the thousands of client devices in a typical enterprise, such occurrences are not at all uncommon and introduce an unacceptable level of risk for many businesses.

Verifying PC security configurations

To address this challenge, connected businesses should strongly consider monitoring PC security compliance on a continuous basis. Ideally, the monitoring solution should be able to see every PC on the network, including intermittently and remotely connectedsystems. It should also be ind...

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