The IT market is a place where research and development is both perpetual and never-ending. Laudable efforts are made to enhance the features of its various offerings, bringing efficacy and manageability to corporate business operations.
The innovation drive is so fast sometimes that the enhanced version of a product comes into the market even before its predecessor has made a global tour. With innumerable offerings available, it often becomes difficult for enterprises to determine a perfect match for their requirements. In order to create a network structure, which is in accordance with the company’s plans and objectives, certain decisions have to be made very thoughtfully.
Hence there is a need to ascertain the validity of software at the time of installation, to manage it well in order to safeguard its operational efficiency, and lastly, to evaluate its features periodically against the latest offerings.
Aiding various corporations in authenticating whether the deployed software is installed and configured as per their requirements (or not) is a software company called SignaCert. This company provides integrity verification services to commercial and government enterprises. It helps entities globally to evaluate, authenticate, and sustain their organizational infrastructures.
Recently, the company launched its integrity verification services under the name of Enterprise Trust Services. This service works as an instrument and help enterprises determine whether their systems and endpoints are structured and placed according to their intent.
The Enterprise Trust Service enables enterprises to evaluate and certify the reliability of software throughout their information technology (IT) network, so that it is dependable, manageable, secure, and in compliance with the company’s needs.
Employing an innovative practical approach, this software tests the operating system, applications and other software installed in an enterprise in context to a known, trusted reference, facilitating the knowledge about their reliability and efficiency.
Merging the SignaCert Global Trust Repository with an entity’s internal software and associated configurations, a trusted reference is created. The integrity verification of the entire enterprise infrastructure is done against this reference.
Wyatt Starnes, founder and CEO of SignaCert, said in a
press release, “The industry is recognizing the need for a new approach to IT security and systems management. Using a trusted reference to verify the integrity of their enterprise is a powerful new method.”
John Pescatore, VP of Gartner (
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Alert) Inc., enumerating the benefits of such services said, “System failures are often the result of change, either through corruption, malicious code, or unintended configuration changes. To secure servers and PCs, enterprises need vulnerability management approaches that assure that only trusted, valid software is running on their systems.”
The SignaCert Enterprise Trust Service sorts out several IT business issues, such as:
--Gold image verification: To continually assess the company’s multi-platform systems, it classifies the OS and configurations in relation to a reliable reference.
--Endpoint Integrity: Possessing knowledge about the current state of its systems, a company can exercise control and enjoy reliability.
--Regulatory Compliance: It aids the company to assess whether the systems employed are in accordance to their intent by performing a fine-grained verification.
With a view to make authentic IT products available and eliminate their replication, SignaCert dedicates time and resources to work in collaboration with the IT vendors.
To applaud its efforts, several independent Software Vendors (ISVs) from the IT industry have granted SignaCert’s Global Trust Repository genuine signatures (short-hand definite software component identifiers), lending reliability and authenticity to both the company and its products.
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Rahul Prabhakar is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To see more of his articles, please visit his columnist page.
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