Custom compliance

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Compliance Management consists of four consecutive steps:

  • Inventorying : Taking stock of the current situation of the devices.
  • Defining : Defining the criteria that the devices must comply to and assigning it to the devices.
  • Evaluating : Assessing the results of the compliance check.
  • Remedying : Correcting the points on which the devices are not compliant, for example by activating a firewall, applying a patch, resolving a security hole, uninstalling a software, and so on.

By executing these four steps you are making sure that your devices comply to all the rules and policies defined within your organization.

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You have the following main options for improving your compliance processes:

  • Automating inventory generation : Setting up CM to automatically and regularly generate the required inventories of the concerned devices.
  • Defining constants : Defining constants that can be used when setting up the compliance rule criteria.
  • Generating compliance reports : Generating reports in different formats (PDF, HTML, XML) to visualize and track compliance results.
  • Creating dashboards : Creating specific dashboards to provide an easy overview over a specific situation or population.