Gravity Storm Software Enhances its Network Security Patch Management Tool, Service Pack Manager 2000.

Gravity Storm Software today announced the release of Service Pack Manager 2000 version 6.9.5.0. This automated enterprise-wide security utility enables administrators to analyze and fix security vulnerabilities and stability problems in Windows NT/2000/XP and additional Microsoft products, such as SQL, IIS, ISA, Exchange, IE, and others. The new version also supports Windows 2003 Server family and Service Pack 4 for Windows 2000. The software is agentless and operates on remote machines from a central console.

San Diego, CA (PRWEB) July 3, 2003 -- Gravity Storm Software today announced the release of Service Pack Manager 2000 version 6.9.5.0. This automated enterprise-wide security utility enables administrators to analyze and fix security vulnerabilities and stability problems in Windows NT/2000/XP and additional Microsoft products, such as SQL, IIS, ISA, Exchange, IE, and others.
The new version also supports Windows 2003 Server family and Service Pack 4 for Windows 2000. The software is agentless and operates on remote machines from a central console.

Viruses such as the recent SQL Slammer worm, Code Red and Nimda worms could be prevented if the systems were patched with existing patches using Service Pack Manager 2000.

Service Pack Manager 2000 customer base experiences enormous growth. It includes government organizations such as Pentagon, NASA, Edwards Airforce Base, Flight Test Pilot School, Sealift Command, VA medical centers, universities, and variety of financial istitutions and high-tech businesses.

The new version enhances the product's ability to manage security patching of small, medium, and large business at the enterprise level by providing a range of new features and iprovements, including custom template-based reporting, enhanced filtering, as well as an
ability to organize enterprise network as a hierarchical groups of machines based on user's arbitrary criteria:

- Reporting
Template-based report wizard allows customization of the scan results, including report appearance and filtering based on variety criteria, such as hotfix severity rating, security hotfixes, OS version, Service Pack level, and more. The templates can be stored in a centralized location on a network share.

- NetGroups
The NetGroups feature has been revamped to allow users to create custom hierarchical groups of computers of unlimited nesting levels, organized by user's arbitrary criteria. All the NetGroups functionality is available either by intuitive drag-n-drop or from right-click popup menu on the network tree. Adding computers to the custom groups can be done wither by machine name, IP address, or a range of IP addresses. The IP addresses resolution is optional, allowing display of the machines on the network tree by their IP addresses. Export/import of the selected custom groups to/from .CSV text files is included.

- Filtering Scan Results
- Hotfix Severity Rating are included in hotfix detailed information.
- Scheduled Administrative Alerts to multiple remote machines
- Numerous User Interface Improvements, including Balloon Tips

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About Gravity Storm Software:
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Located in San Diego, California, Gravity Storm Software provides innovative, quality products and development services for Windows platforms. Its flagship product, Service Pack Manager 2000 successfully provides cost-efficient security solutions for its customers since March 1999.

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