BMC FootPrints Compliance Manager

Making sure your IT assets are compliant with wide-ranging industry regulations and standards can be a major headache. Unfortunately, ignorance of compliance is never a valid defense, and the burden of proof will always be with you and your organization.

Non-compliance is embarrassing at best, and at worst can include significant financial penalties. And to complicate matters further, regulatory standards are often ambiguous and are frequently interpreted differently from one auditor to another. To minimize the uncertainty surrounding compliance and to streamline the auditing process, you need effective compliance management software.

BMC FootPrints® Compliance Manager allows you to define policies based on your vendors’ licensing agreements and other regulatory standards to quickly assess your compliance levels. With essential tools, reports and templates for ISO 27001, ISO 27002, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Microsoft® hardening guides, you’ll be ready for your next audit with the minimum amount of disruption.

The power of three: compliance + power + device

FootPrints Compliance Manager integrates tightly with FootPrints Inventory Manager to give you non-intrusive, agent-less scans of your network that will detect potential compliance issues. The dynamic grouping options allow you to quickly identify, group and take action against any devices that do not meet your defined compliance policies. With FootPrints Compliance Manager’s comprehensive reports and dashboards, you’ll be able to monitor your compliance every step of the way. Along with integrated power and device management, key capabilities include:

• Leveraging pre-built or creating custom compliance templates specific to your industry or company standards
• Assessing licensable software units with intelligent software recognition
• Assessing your systems configuration against the compliance policy
• Prioritizing your non-compliant devices for remediation
• Remediating with automated patch management
• Delivering comprehensive reports to satisfy both internal and external audits

Intelligent software recognition and normalization easily distinguish and accurately count individual and suite deployments.

Automate and Consolidate to Simplify a Complex Task

IT deployments are rarely static and rarely reducing in size and complexity. Whether change comes from a merger or acquisition or the success and growth of your core business, managing technology is always top of mind. There are many aspects to ensuring success. Three keys areas at the top of the list of most compliance strategies are:

• Accurate license count and efficient deployment
• Software currency to proactively reduce known vulnerabilities
• At-a-glance and detailed reports demonstrating fiscal responsibility for auditors and executives

Intelligent software recognition technologies accurately assess your licensable software units with normalization technologies for granular details. You can choose what software licenses you want to manage, track, add or redeploy to another user or system. With a manager-of-managers approach, FootPrints Compliance Manager provides a single console to view, control, monitor and update all major anti-virus and anti-spyware applications across your environment. And real-time dashboards provide quick visual checks of your compliance status with drill-down options for easy access of detailed information or to take actions as required.

Dashboards deliver easy to understand, at-a-glance views of your anti-spyware and anti-virus status.

The BMC FootPrints family of solutions

FootPrints Compliance Manager is part of the FootPrints family of products and solutions for IT Lifecycle and IT Service Management. Built from the ground up as a modular yet integrated system, FootPrints products can be purchased separately or as a part of our broader FootPrints solutions including: Service Management, Service Desk, Lifecycle Management, Desktop Management and Security & Compliance Management.

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