Desktop Security & Standards Enforcement

Survey Policy Manager™ gives you the power to effectively audit your desktop security and standards policies on desktops throughout your enterprise. It combines Survey detailed inventory and actual asset usage functionality with a customizable rules-based wizard-driven interface, and simplified email notification to create a full-featured policy management solution.

Survey Policy Manager provides a layered, usage-based defense for eliminating today’s desktop security threats, and enforcing IT standards. It quickly identifies machines vulnerable to the latest virus attack due to unapplied service packs and hot fixes, or hosting Trojan horse applications. After patch remediation, it audits your enterprise to ensure your exposure is completely eliminated. Survey Policy Manager can also scan the local registry to identify virus signatures, rogue applications, or system configuration changes. Unlike other inventory-based tools, Survey detects rogue applications executed from CD’s, floppy disks, and other peripherals.

With Survey, creating and viewing the policy results can be accomplished in minutes. Our simple, flexible wizards walk you through the process. Survey Policy Manager can run machine scans real-time, or according to a defined schedule, depending on your company requirements.

Policy Manager functions as an add-on module to Survey IT Portfolio Manager, allowing you greater flexibility in creating a custom usage, inventory, performance, licensing, and desktop security and standards solution. This added functionality helps you maximize the dynamic between achieving IT business goals and maintaining a secure, standard environment. 

Policy Manager Benefits:

• Validates software versioning,service pack, and hot fixes for OS, Internet Explorer, and desktop software
• Locates “Trojan horse” software versions that host non-launched viruses
  Scans for registry signatures (keys and values) to locate infected assets
• Identifies discretionary software that do not conform to corporate guidelines
• Audits and ensures your exposure is eliminated after patch remediation
• Discovers new assets which have been plugged into the network since a previous audit
• Identifies rogue software which pose immediate security threats
• Audits hardware change history for missing machines or components