Security vendors bolster line of defense

摘要

IBM, Network Associates and Symantec each disclosed plans last week to beef up their security product lines to provide more defense for networks. IBM's Tivoli division next month plans to ship its first host-based policy-compliance scanner for desktops, servers and mainframes, which promises to help customers check for weaknesses such as unsecure passwords, orphan accounts and un-patched systems. IBM Tivoli's Security Compliance Manager and its Policy Compliance Checking Tool, which reside on a central server and look for vulnerabilities and compliance violations and report back to a central console, is the outgrowth of a service IBM has offered for about three years.