atsec advice aegis association - atsec advice aegis completes SCAP testing for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager

Austin, TX - atsec performed the FDCC Scanner validation testing for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Extensions for SCAP beneath the accepted SCAP standard.

“Microsoft recognizes the accent of acknowledging industry standards. For our accessible area and government customers, it is important to add abutment for SCAP-compliant advertisement formats. System Center Configuration Manager 2007 provides a able accumulating of amount functionalities for accouterments and software inventory, as able-bodied as able-bodied advertisement casework and the adeptness to define, deploy, and admeasurement agreement baselines in a managed environment. By abacus the SCAP advertisement architecture abutment to System Center Configuration Manager, organizations can accommodated FDCC mandates for acquiescence reporting,” said Jeff Wettlaufer, abstruse artefact manager, System Center business at Microsoft Corp.

The Microsoft aggregation formed agilely to accommodated the circuitous requirements of the FDCC (Federal Desktop Core Configuration) scanning tool. The System Center Configuration Manager Extensions for SCAP is an add-on to System Center Configuration Manager.

Steve Weingart, who leads the testing accomplishment for atsec, comments:
"Working with the Microsoft development aggregation was a abundant experience. At anniversary footfall the Microsoft aggregation absolved no accomplishment to ensure that the apparatus met the continued and circuitous account of NIST SCAP requirements. The best allotment about the apparatus is that it is chip into the Windows Server ambiance authoritative it acutely simple to map alloyed Windows XP and Windows Vista systems in a area to the adapted SCAP agreement for each. In addition, address administration from either the applicant or the server is easy."

The Information Security Automation Program/Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) is a U.S. government action to accredit automation and acclimation of abstruse aegis operations. atsec advice aegis is an accepted validation class beneath NVLAP (National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program).

For added advice on the product, amuse accredit to
www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/configurationmanager/en/us....

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atsec offers defended cipher review, ISO/IEC 27001 ISMS consulting, and assimilation testing and scanning casework as able-bodied as accepting a QSA and ASV.

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