SecureData, an ERP.com company and sub-Saharan distributor of Centennial Discovery, a worldwide leader in network asset and inventory-tracking tools, has announced that Centennial Discovery V4.3, was awarded SC Magazine "Best Buy" for February 2002.
For tracking both hardware and software across LAN, WAN and standalone PCs owned by your business, Centennial Discovery is an asset in itself.
Audit solutions can cover an array of different asset-tracking options, and Centennial Discovery, like some of the others, tracks both hardware and software. In this way you can get a real picture of what is on your network, if it's used, when it's used and of course, if any changes are made to it.
Centennial Discovery ensures you know what assets you own and where they are. Everyone is talking about the enemy within, but in order to combat the risks, businesses must know what's what and have their finger on the pulse if they are to take this security breach seriously. By utilising a network-based inventory management tool like Centennial Discovery an administrator can see everything he or she needs to in order to protect company interests.
In order to keep an adequate inventory you need to know the physical whereabouts of your IT equipment. You need to know how much memory it has, what it's connected to and what software is running on it. Centennial Discovery is a server-based tool; the client agents are deployed using login scripts or via e-mail, depending on your administrator's preference. Once installed, an inventory can be run to start getting a picture of your entire network. Where standalone machines are kept, laptops come and go from the office or where login scripts aren't run, the administrator can still ensure they are logged into the audit by using a floppy disk to gather the information and then feeding it to Centennial Discovery.
To save on time and manpower, Centennial Discovery allows hardware to be registered by location. This is accomplished as the LANProbe identifies the network cable that the device is connected to. If it's moved the LANProbe identifies the new cable connection and 'hey presto' you know where the equipment has been moved to. Whether on the LAN or WAN or across the Internet, Centennial Discovery enables a full inventory to be kept and it supports this through remote access servers.
Software licences are easily checked against software use and where use exceeds the number of licences an alarm is raised so that the administrator can remedy the shortfall. The repository provides all the information and this can be found at the Centennial Discovery Control Centre. It is here that audits can be scheduled, reports can be generated and your asset tracking can be shared with other vital business tools. In all, this proved to be an easy to use and very useful form of hardware and software tracking.
SecureData, an ERP.com company, is Africa's Premier IT Security Solution Provider. SecureData's solutions incorporate Antivirus and Content Security, Network Security, Intrusion Detection software, and Network Asset Management. SecureData's comprehensive "Managed Security Services" include design, audit, implementation, outsourcing and hosting. SecureData distributes, sells and supports category leading IT security products to the public, corporate and SME sectors throughout Africa as well as products and services to the SOHO and consumer markets through partnerships with ISPs. A Channel Partner Program is now available.
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