Configuresoft Awarded Red Hat Enterprise Linux Benchmark Certification From Center...

Configuresoft Awarded Red Hat Enterprise Linux Benchmark Certification From Center for Internet Security

Configuresoft Continues to Demonstrate Leadership to Ensure Secure
and Compliant Red Hat Linux System Configurations
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.--(Business Wire)--
Configuresoft, the world's leading enterprise server configuration
management company, today announced that Configuresoft's Enterprise
Configuration Manager (ECM) was awarded Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Benchmark Certification from the Center for Internet Security (CIS).
This certification is based on Configuresoft's industry leading
configuration management and assessment capabilities that help
organizations achieve and maintain a secure and compliant environment
with CIS Benchmark recommendations for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
systems.

The CIS Linux benchmark certification further enhances and
strengthens Configuresoft's ECM capability of providing server
configuration management context, visibility and remediation across
UNIX/Linux platforms. The company has also released UNIX patch
assurance for its industry leading Security Update Manager (SUM)
product offering, which provides intelligent security patch
assessment, remediation and verification.

"We are pleased to see companies like Configuresoft expand their
commitment to CIS benchmarks for UNIX," said Bert Miuccio, president
and CEO of CIS. "By leveraging the Linux benchmark into the core of
ECM, organizations are able to configure their operating systems based
on the widely accepted, user originated, de facto security
configuration standard for Red Hat Linux."

Configuresoft's Center for Policy and Compliance (CP&C), led by
former Chief Technology Officer of CIS Dave Shackleford, has been an
industry leader in forming opinion and bringing together published
security and compliance information to build an unmatched content
library of compliance toolkits. The CP&C security and compliance
toolkits are available to all Configuresoft customers and include:

-- Regulations (SOX, GLBA, HIPAA, FISMA)

-- Industry Standards (PCI DSS, ISO 17799, NIST, NERC/FERC)

-- International Standards (ISO 27001)

-- Directives (DISA STIG)

-- Guidelines (FDCC, Microsoft and VMware Security Hardening
Guidelines)

-- Patch Assurance (Research and test Microsoft security patches
and UNIX patch assessment)

CIS Benchmarks are a set of technical standards that draw upon
best practices published by The SANS Institute, the National Security
Agency (NSA), the National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST), and the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), as
well as consensus guidance from CIS members and users. The CIS
Certification program is distinguished from other IT certifications
because CIS certified vendor tools support the consensus best
practices movement.

About The Center for Internet Security

The Center for Internet Security (CIS) is a non-profit enterprise
whose mission is to help organizations reduce the risk of business and
e-commerce disruptions resulting from inadequate technical security
controls. CIS members develop and encourage the widespread use of
security configuration benchmarks through a global consensus process
involving participants from the public and private sectors. The
practical CIS Benchmarks support available high level standards that
deal with the "Why, Who, When, and Where" aspects of IT security by
detailing "How" to secure an ever widening array of workstations,
servers, network devices, and software applications in terms of
technology specific controls. CIS Scoring Tools analyze and report
system compliance with the technical control settings in the
Benchmarks. The CIS Benchmarks and Scoring Tools are available for
download free of charge to the Internet community from
http://www.cisecurity.org/index.html.

About Configuresoft

Configuresoft, the world's leading enterprise configuration
management provider, delivers automated and optimized Lean IT, secure
and compliant Clean IT, and energy efficient Green IT to IT
Operations. Hundreds of organizations, including 13 of the world's 25
largest companies, rely on Configuresoft to effectively and
efficiently manage the complexity of today's physical and virtualized
IT environments. Configuresoft's team of security and policy experts
ensures continuous compliance with regulatory requirements such as
Sarbanes-Oxley and industry standards such as PCI DSS and Microsoft
and VMware Hardening Guides. To contact Configuresoft, please call
(888) 447-2220 or visit www.configuresoft.com.

Configuresoft, Inc.
Becky Norris, 719-686-2682
becky.norris@configuresoft.com

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