Secure the Corporate Desktop

You wouldn't steal a car. You wouldn't steal a purse. But other people don't have your standards and would be more than happy to walk off with your company's important information. In fact, computer theft ranks second only to automobile theft, and 1.35 million laptops are destroyed or stolen every year. The chances of your organization losing sensitive information are increasing dramatically.

Enforce policies, identify non-compliant systems and protect your entire environment—whether the user is on the network or not.

Your company may deal with sensitive information all the time: names, birth dates, home and cell phone numbers, and even government ID numbers. In this changing marketplace, with sophisticated Web 2.0 technologies, your company's environment can eventually became so complex that IT managers will have trouble keeping up with patches and updates. In addition, as technology becomes more mobile, and users work from insecure locations, the risk of contracting a virus escalates. Even with increases in IT staff, your company can have trouble staying on top of its security measures enough to ensure your systems remain secure.

If your company's e-mail system becomes infected, member desktops can go down and valuable information can be lost. In addition to user productivity stalling completely, customers become angry because their personal information is up for grabs. From a single incident, lasting only a short time, your company can lose hundreds of thousands of dollars—not even including customers who leave for more secure competitors.

If you are determined to prevent future disasters, you know that you need a complete solution to keep your company's desktops secure and its systems running efficiently.

Automated Threat Management

Novell has just the right combination of services to keep your company's information secure against malicious software, system vulnerabilities and hackers. IT security policies are enforced automatically to ensure a standard and stable configuration—whether users are inside or outside the firewall.

But perhaps most importantly, patches are tested, distributed and applied automatically. IT staff no longer has to spend valuable time dealing with monotonous manual tasks. With Novell products and continuous monitoring, your company knows that its systems will always have the latest patches.

With these improvements, your company's productivity as a whole can improve. Users will call the helpdesk less often. In addition, morale can increase throughout your company because management is happy that IT costs are down and users' productivity is up. IT is happy because they spend less time repeating manual tasks. And users are happy because they don't have to wait for IT to get things working before they can work.

Automatic Policy Enforcement

With our Systems Management solutions, your company gets capabilities it can't find elsewhere. Automatic policy enforcement, application whitelisting and asset change and modification history all keep your company, and its customers' information, safe. And now, instead of worrying about whether it will be able to keep information protected, your company can focus on how it will keep its profits up.

You could keep your USB ports glued shut to prevent data threat. You could forbid the use of wireless devices, such as cell phones, in your data center. But these measures are simply not feasible for a twenty-first century company. You need to keep your users mobile and your corporate data safe. You can do both with Novell.

You love that your users are becoming more productive with their mobile devices and their home-based offices. But you're also worried. You know the more data is stored on more devices, the greater the chances of losing something important. And since the days of gluing USB ports shut and forbidding wireless devices have passed, you are concerned about the consequences attending these advancements.

There's no way to keep track of every virus, hacker and malicious software. Our Secure Desktop solution protects you even against unknown risks and attacks.

Research shows that 53 percent of organizations wouldn't be able to identify lost data if a USB drive were lost or stolen. And 70 percent of all attacks, breaches and thefts occur inside the firewall.

And in a competitive market you know that one stolen laptop, one penalty because of non-compliance or one piece of information in the wrong hands can set your company back years of hard work.

With the future of your company's IT department your responsibility, you know you need a way to secure all your users' devices—mobile and stationary—and find a solution for your corporate data storage problems.

Automated Protection of Corporate Data

By implementing our Systems Management solutions, you get automated protection for your company's important data with personal firewalls, data encryption, port control and more.

Instead of relying on employees to check every device that enters or leaves the data center, you will have automated reports that show which removable devices have been used and what data was written to them. Your company can also use Novell solutions to protect users' data when they are in unsecure environments. Even if a laptop or flash drive is stolen, the data is encrypted so your company and customer information remains safe.

You'll be able to secure your endpoints based on the users and their roles. This approach gives your company flexibility, and security decisions are made by policy, not by users. Whenever you need to report on the status of your systems, you can simply run customizable reports that detail the security state of every device. And when vulnerabilities are found, our Systems Management solutions provide the necessary patches and updates to keep your company's corporate data secure.

Systems Take Care of Themselves

You can't be everywhere all the time. This is why our Systems Management solutions provide self-defense capabilities. Your systems will take care of themselves and you can focus your attention on value-added projects. And with Novell solutions, your systems will also be equipped to protect data holistically from all locations based on user, not just the machine. Because your systems will be so flexible, you can even realign IT to match your business policies.

They say there's no such thing as bad press, but we disagree. Failure to comply with industry and government standards can be expensive and can damage your brand. Your company earned its good reputation through hard work and honest business practices, and an audit that proves you're not compliant can ruin years of struggle. In addition, virus attacks, unauthorized access to networks, lost or stolen mobile devices, and proprietary and intellectual information theft can all cost you big.

When audited you need all the information about your systems. Our Secure Desktop solution delivers the most accurate, comprehensive usage and license compliance reports.

Compliance issues can be a struggle. Your organization can be hit with a number of financial penalties or sustain large amounts of data loss. It can seem just as one audit finishes, another begins—each with a different set of regulations and standards to meet. IT staff can be overwhelmed trying to meet every requirement. And, truth be told, they aren't often able to do so. The resulting consequences are fines, security risks, data losses and bad PR.

Your company is likely spending too much for software that isn't being used. Software vendors are often able to talk IT managers into unnecessary investments simply because they don't have a bigger picture of their existing assets. You need a way to handle security, process and asset audits. Because without a way to track, discover, measure, mitigate and report on compliance, your company risks losing its hard-earned reputation—not to mention profits.

Reporting and Audit Tools Ensure Compliance

You need a single solution to all of these problems. Systems Management solutions from Novell are the answer. Novell solutions have everything you need to keep your company compliant. They include reporting and audit tools to ensure documenting compliance with internal policies as well as SOX, GLB, HIPAA and others. They track software usage and license compliance.

But they not only make it easy to prove compliance, Novell solutions also make compliance easier. Your IT team will be able to generate more accurate reports more quickly. Faster audits also cut costs, which, of course, makes management happy. And finally, Novell solutions help you keep your systems secure so your teams can focus on better compliance and more important projects.

Enforce Corporate Policies

In an ideal world, IT is supposed to work with your business policies. Systems Management solutions from Novell can help make the ideal a reality. With:

• Combined application and OS patching and vulnerability remediation
• Holistic security views of your IT environment
• Compliance metrics reporting your IT systems will do what they're supposed to do—support your bottom-line business goals