Promisec is rolling out an enterprise version of its Spectator Professional software that evaluates the security posture of devices before they are allowed access to corporate networks.

The software compares the status of machines logging in with configurations of what network security professionals designate to be compliant machines.

Promisec is among many companies that do this type of endpoint checking, some as single-product vendors and some larger vendors that have an endpoint-checking aspect to a larger product line. These companies include the likes of Aventail, Check Point, Cisco, Juiper and Microsoft.

Many of these other vendors require a client or a software agent installed on the machine being checked, but Promised does not.

Spectator Professional for Enterprises probes devices without use of a software client on the device. Instead it uses administrative access to authorized devices via Windows Manager Interface. It uses this access to determine whether devices have synched with handheld devices that might spread malicious code, have USB drives or remote control software installed that could compromise security.

Spectator Professional for Enterprises includes monitoring of application processes, services and toolbars to better establish a baseline of normal device activity. Any traffic that exceeds that baseline can trigger alerts, uninstall offending applications, kill processes or remove setup commands for them.

It can also remediate machines that come up lacking when compared to the standard machine configuration. So if, for example, the anti-virus software is disabled on a computer, Spectator would detect that and restart it the virus scanner.

The new edition includes a registry wizard that compares applications to an approved, hardened state for the device. So if it detects a wireless card has been fired up on the device thereby opening the device to threats from an unknown network, it can disable the card.

The company says it can scan 250 PCs per minute.

Spectator Professional for Enterprises is available now and pricing starts at $140,000 for a 5,000-seat enterprise and varies depending on seat count.