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ARMing the Enterprise Against Security Posture Drift

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Overview This white paper explains how Shavlik Technologies provides Shavlik Active Vulnerability Management solutions and helps ARM the enterprise against security posture drift. Shavlik solutions maintain a secure, policy-compliant enterprise network through automatic and continuous assessment, remediation, and management of vulnerabilities related to patch levels, spyware, and security configuration. If one has a complex enterprise environment, one needs a secure solution that helps in simplifying complex network security. Simple, secure solutions from Shavlik Technologies deliver comprehensive enterprise network coverage, preserve network bandwidth, conserve system resources, and use a flexible and scalable architecture designed to meets enterprise needs.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Shavlik Technologies	File Format	PDF
Date Published	March 2009
Format	White Papers
Topics	Network Security, Security Management

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