Re: Managing installed Agents

["gig" <gigabit () satx rr com>]

Helly,

That's interesting as it seems to me that many vendors have worked hard in 
changing the security model to be agentless.

We are moving in that direction which means we have centralized tools that 
just need privilege account access to systems for scanning/reporting.  The 
main concern now is having sufficient bandwidth to do remote 
scanning/monitoring/reporting.

Outside of that, the other option is utilizing desktop/server configuration 
tools. (like Altiris)




----- Original Message ----- 
From: <hellkyng () gmail com>
To: <security-basics () securityfocus com>
Sent: Monday, January 03, 2011 12:01 PM
Subject: Managing installed Agents


> I was hoping to get guidance from the pros on how they are managing agents 
> installed on servers etc.
>
> It seems like a lot of security products I evaluate today require an agent 
> to be installed on any machine to be monitored (Such as file integrity 
> monitoring or configuration control etc). Given the work involved in 
> installing and maintaining these agents it typically makes the server 
> admins groan.
>
> How are you managing the increasing number of agents required by security 
> products?
>
> Thanks,
> Helly
>
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