Lumension introduces new Lumension® Endpoint Management and Security Suite 7.1

Key CORE Platform Features in L.E.M.S.S. v.7.1

 

Modular, Extensible Architecture

  • Traditional software often requires extensive installs and uninstalls to perform upgrades.
  • The scalable, enterprise-class architecture in Lumension Endpoint Management and Security Suite grows with your business, providing secure management of all endpoints in small as well as larger, distributed and highly complex IT infrastructures.

Single, Resilient Agent for Stability and Control

  • Agent Management is a common customer pain point with vendors in the security industry. Challenges include the operation of multiple agents for different software products, the difficulty to deploy and extend agents, as well as weak agent security.
  • Lumension Endpoint Management and Security Suite utilizes a single agent architecture with modularly delivered product capabilities to eliminate agent bloat and simplify upgrades.

Enhanced Asset Discovery and Agent Deployment

  • Many vulnerability management solutions are unable to detect all managed and unmanaged assets for a comprehensive network inventory.
  • L.E.M.S.S. scans the environment for endpoints, providing comprehensive visibility into both managed and unmanaged systems. Agents can be deployed to unmanaged systems interactively, automatically or on a scheduled basis.

 

Installation Manager

  • Performing software updates and upgrades traditionally take tremendous time and effort.
  • The integrated Lumension Installation Manager supplies a view of all licensed modules in the entire environment and makes the addition and removal of L.E.M.S.S. modules as well as new upgrades safe and easy.

Active Directory Integration and Synchronization

  • Many organizations organize their internal groups through Active Directory, but many endpoint security vendors still require you to recreate these groups in their tool.
  • L.E.M.S.S. allows you to leverage domains, user groups, and individual users that are already set up in Active Directory. The schedulable AD Sync wizard harmonizes the infrastructure set-up and syncs to the entire AD domain or individual groups.

Role-based Access Control

  • Various software solutions provide only a one-size-fit-all user profile, giving all users advanced admin access permissions and thus putting companies at risk of user errors.
  • L.E.M.S.S. provides granular control of groups and domains by enabling different users to have distinct views and system access dependent on their role or security level in the company.

 

Single Solution for Heterogeneous Environments and Applications

  • Many patch management solutions cover Microsoft operating systems, but they typically don’t patch non-Microsoft machines or applications.
  • Lumension Patch and Remediation provides vulnerability audits and remediation with wide support across major OS platforms (Windows, including Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2; Linux; MacOS; Sun Solaris; HP; etc.), and infrastructure devices— all from one single console.
  • Lumension features the industry’s largest Microsoft and Non-Microsoft Application Vulnerability Content!

Policy Baselines for Continuous Policy Enforcement and Automation of System Management Tasks

  • Many organizations find it difficult keeping endpoints running efficiently, enforcing software policies and keeping users from making unauthorized changes.
  • Lumension Patch and Remediation automatically enforces patches, configurations, remediations and performs other 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.
  • Baseline policies can be easily exported and applied across multiple groups and servers for consistency.

 

Distributed Patch Payload Caching

  • Deploying patches to a large endpoint environment can tremendously impact the network’s performance.
  • Lumension Patch and Remediation deploys patches to a distributed endpoint environment via elevated distribution points, allowing endpoints to download patches from these caching proxies, rather than establishing and maintaining individual connections to the main server.

Vulnerability Management for both Physical and Virtual Assets

  • Some patch management solutions work only on physical machines and completely disregard virtual machines.
  • Lumension Patch and Remediation’s virtual awareness provides confidence in successfully managing your virtual datacenter infrastructure.

Advanced Patch Deployment and Reboot Control

  • Having to deploy more than one patch can result in multiple reboots and take a lot of time and coordination by the IT staff, as well as impact end users.
  • Customize patch deployments with advanced tools, e.g. chain multiple patches, set custom flags, control