Solutions for Asset Monitoring - NIST SCAP Validated
A foundation for securing your infrastructure includes being able to discover, and continuously monitor, assets on your network.
The C5 Compliance Platform supports this with wizard driven asset inventory data for initial system setup, and by performing controlled network scans - scheduled by the operator - to discover new assets on an ongoing basis. For discovered assets that require continuous monitoring, C5 provides a wizard driven push installer that automatically distributes and installs the C5 Element Sensors on the targeted hosts. At this time the host is continuously surveyed by the sensor for both volatile and non-volatile elements of the host.
Each host is assigned a unique ID, enabling continuous monitoring across mixed static and dynamic DHCP environments. This is critical for a serious compliance solution, since historical trends and detailed audit and vulnerability results must be maintained by unique asset identifiers that do not change over time.
Host-based surveys of the assets are collected at intervals scheduled by the operator, with volatile information typically being collected every 60 seconds to every 15 minutes. Less volatile information, which is often valuable from an inventory management perspective, is typically collected once per day or once per week. These host-based surveys collect over 50 attributes such as CPU utilization, memory usage, running processes, routing tables, installed applications, installed patches and drivers, and active users. This information is used to monitor and record changes of baseline configurations, and to evaluate policies for violations, and for potential notification and enforcement actions.
Assets may be also classified by administrator-defined groups, and be assigned criticalities based upon business value. The wizard driven facility for includes the capability to create an unlimited number of user defined fields, with user defined field formats and values, enabling the monitoring and management of assets by the business terms and attributes that make sense to you.
Audit. Evaluate. Comply.
It really is that simple. |
