Criston Launches Converging IT Security Offering in the UK

Thanks to the perfect fit between its Vulnerability Manager and Patch Manager solutions, the leading European provider of secure desktop management software provides a simple an effective approach to securing IT systems.

Sophia – Antipolis, France (PRWEB) April 30, 2006 -- Criston Software, the leading European provider of secure desktop management solutions, will introduce its innovative IT security offering to the UK market at Infosecurity Europe in London (25-27 April).

The solutions currently available are partial,” explains Marc Vaillant, CEO of Criston Software. “In order to really address their vulnerabilities, businesses need four critical services: scanning for missing patches, deploying patches, scanning for configurations issues and fixing these configurations. Only Criston Software can deliver all four services, in an integrated way.”

Branded as Secure Desktop Management, Criston’s offering achieves the most effective convergence between Systems Management and IT security. “We summarise our offering ‘Scan, Click and Fix’ as it describes exactly how simple and effective it is”, says Mark Peters, Country Manager for UK and Ireland. “Through combining our products Vulnerability Manager and Patch Manager, our clients cannot only discover but also fix 98% of all desktop vulnerabilities, in one mouse click”.

Beyond patch management
“Patchable vulnerabilities represent less than 20% of all existing vulnerabilities,” continues Mark Peters. “Our solutions’ convergence ensures our customer can address patch-related issues as well as configuration related issues.”

Criston’s Vulnerability Manager performs a critical deep scan on the IT network to show the security risk levels attached to each device and to assess existing vulnerabilities. Vulnerability Manager detects missing patches, but also configuration issues such as abnormal use, brute force attacks, buffer overflow, denial of service, trojan, finger abuses, mis-configurations or weak passwords.

This assessment is then automatically compiled on a single console and Patch Manager allows the deployment of corrections in one single mouse click. Beyond missing patches distribution, Patch Manager can also instantaneously stop services that may be utilised by a vulnerability running on any host, uninstall, monitor and update vulnerable applications, modify host configuration, notify users, change passwords and change local security policies.

Available independently, both solutions are powered by Criston Software’s Unique Intelligent Agent – Precision - an open-standard technology developed by the company over the last nine years. This unique agent technology reinforces the convergence between vulnerability assessment and patch or configuration fixes deployment and provides critical customer benefits, such as complete customization, deployment scalability and better use of network bandwidth.

About Criston Software
Formed in 1997, Criston is Europe’s leading provider of secure desktop management solutions. Criston help organizations understand the state of their IT infrastructure, respond quickly when needed and put controls in place to make sure the infrastructure – from servers to desktops and mobile devices – is not only secure and available but also compliant with relevant standards. Criston is based in Sophia-Antipolis in France and in the UK. For more information about Criston, please consult our website www.criston.com    ;

Media enquiries:

Patrick Frison-Roche/Eva Blässar
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Tel: +353 (0)1 639 8881

Aurélie Annoot
Criston Software
Tel.: +33 (0)4 92 38 13 21

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