Blue Turtle Technologies' (Blue Turtle) partner Vanguard, winner in the 2010 Government Security News Homeland Security Awards in the USA for best intrusion detection and prevention through its Vanguard Enforcer TM solution, and best compliance and vulnerability management through Vanguard Configuration Manager, offers a comprehensive and globally recognised solution to mainframe intrusion detection and compliance.
Gartner estimates that enterprises and agencies that use mainframes host 90% of their mission-critical applications on those systems. Stuart Walton, Senior Technical Consultant, Blue Turtle, comments: “Often organisations implement less effective solutions due to budget constraints that unfortunately cost organisations dearly in the long-term, as not only are operational efficiencies hampered, but management time extensively laboured. This could exhaust all resources and put tremendous strain on the operation as a whole as organisations become reactive and not proactive.”
Vanguard Enforcer, the only real-time intrusion management solution for the mainframe, protects mission-critical data and applications on mainframe systems by ensuring that an organisation's security and compliance standards, policies, rules and settings are in place and enforced. The software can save an organisation millions of dollars by automating the prevention of attempted hacks, misuse of resources and unauthorised changes.
Vanguard Configuration Manager, recently released by Vanguard, has already been deployed in a number of data centres managed by US government contractors. Vanguard Configuration Manager provides the fastest, most cost-effective and accurate method to verify that mainframe security configuration controls are in compliance with the Defence Information Systems Agency (DISA) Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIG). Organisations using Vanguard Configuration Manager can perform mainframe DISA STIG checks and report findings in just a few hours instead of the hundreds of hours it may take using other methods.
Vanguard Configuration Manager has comprehensive built-in intelligence about the mainframe DISA STIGs, which can dramatically reduce the time and cost it takes to report on compliance with this Federal Standard from the National Checklist Program. Within a matter of hours, Vanguard Configuration Manager produces everything an organisation needs to meet its compliance requirements.
Walton concludes: “Blue Turtle has the expertise and recognised solution supported by sound services to address client mainframe management, intrusion, compliance and governance requirements.”
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