BMC Client Management - Compliance

Enforcing compliance policies and assessing assets is difficult and time-consuming. To complicate matters, compliance standards are often interpreted differently from one auditor to another. As a result, compliance can quickly become a moving target. Reduce your compliance risk with the most comprehensive asset inventory and PC lifecycle management solution on the market today — and automate policy compliance across Windows, Mac, and Linux® environments.

With Client Management - Compliance, along with BCM Inventory, and Patch, you can quickly evaluate and remediate corporate, regulatory, and industry compliance requirements with a single database and console.

The main features of Client Management - Compliance are:

• Intelligent software recognition – Assess licensable software units, choose what you want to manage, add licenses, and track usage with software inventory normalization for consistency
• Automated patching – Keep desktop and server software current with fully-automated, wizard configurable, set-it-andforget- it patch management
• Security software “manager of managers” – View, control, monitor, and update all major anti-virus and anti-spyware software from a single source; apply definition updates and security settings; deploy out-of-the-box compliance templates and customizable alerts
• Compliance management – Define policies based on your vendors’ licensing agreements and other regulatory standards with essential tools, reports, and templates for PCI, ISO 27001, ISO 27002, NIST, and Microsoft hardening guides
• Compliance check – Visually identify your compliance status with new dashboards and drill-down functionality
• Software metering –Track the actual usage of any given application and redeploy unused software licenses to other users
• Dynamic groups – Identify, group, and remediate those devices that do not adhere to defined compliance policies 
• Agent/agentless – Support both agent and agentless discovery of assets with detailed configuration information

• Multi-OS support – Support the discovery of software licenses on network devices for Windows, MacOS, Linux, and VMware, including workstations, servers, laptops, mobile machines, and network devices, such as printers