Third-party Windows security validation tool released

Analysis
Oct 18, 20071 min

An interesting addition to the compliance market. Microsoft offers Baseline Security Analyze which verifies that a company’s Microsoft server products comply with Microsoft’s recommended security practices. But it is geared to the SMB market. Promisec’s security compliance and configuration management tool is geared toward large Windows networks. The story says: “The InnerSpace policy software encompasses much of the functionality of the firm’s Spectator Professional product for endpoint compliance but works over distributed networks, according to Ari Tammam, vice president of alliances. InnerSpace is designed to perform an internal scan of Windows desktops and servers, and can collect security-compliance information across a geographically distributed network.”

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