Lumension Content Wizard (formerly patchlink developers kit)

Extends the capabilities of the Lumension Endpoint Management Platform with custom scripting capabilities to centralize, automate and streamline desktop and system management, power management, configuration enforcement, software distribution and custom applications

Lumension Content Wizard is a powerful tool that automates tedious and time-consuming system and desktop management tasks to optimize your IT environment and take advantage of cost and resource saving options via power management capabilities. Extending the capabilities of the Lumension Endpoint Management Platform without requiring additional solutions, Lumension Content Wizard works in conjunction with Lumension Patch and Remediation to provide user-friendly development and centralized management and enforcement of capabilities throughout an organization

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How Lumension Application Control Works

Simplified development, management, distribution and reporting of desktop and system management configuration tasks using Lumension Content Wizard.

Enforce Local Policies: Increase your overall security posture with automated management and enforcement of local security configuration policies (e.g. disabling guest accounts, turning off unnecessary services, enforcing password complexity) based on industry best practices.

Power Savings: Easily reduce endpoint energy costs and enforce “Green” policies with centralized management and enforcement of power options including monitor, hard drive, standby, and hibernation settings.

Lumension Content Wizard Key Features

Flexible Content Creation and Management

• Easy-to-use wizard-based creation of custom software patch remediation packages as well as local security policy and system management configurations.
• Custom detection, deployment, patching and remediation packages can be created to address a wide range of software and configuration threats, distribute or remove applications and files, enforce configuration policies, and more.

Wizard-based Content Authoring

• A process-driven tool that guides users through the patch upload process and automatically creates the fingerprints for the patch being uploaded.

Centralized Endpoint Power Management Policy Wizard

• Centralizes management and enforcement of power policies across complex environments, including standby, hibernation and sleep timing setting based on user and system inactivity.

Custom Script Management and Development

• Centrally deploy, manage and report on all new and existing IT scripts.
• Automatically monitor and report on scripting actions taking place throughout your environment.
• A template based approach to the creation of remediation scripts which allows novice users to quickly author remediation scripts (VBScript, JavaScript, command line) to remedy identified system problems.

Enforcement of Local Security Configuration Policy

• New policy wizard simplifies setting and enforcement of local security configuration policies, such as: disabling guest accounts, turning off unnecessary services, enforcing password complexity and length and forcing unattended systems log off.
• Sets policies based on industry best practices template with 24 pre-configured checks and policy elements that can be added and modified based on your specific security policies.

Software Distribution and Removal

• Policy-based installation of new and updated software packages.
• Quickly identifies installed software on endpoints.
• Automatically removes outdated or unauthorized software.
• Ensures ongoing monitoring and baseline enforcement.

Content Community

• Facilitates content exchange and information sharing within the corporation via a company
• internal ftp site accessed through Lumension Content Wizard.

Patch Search by Title

• Provides rapid intuitive search of existing patches.

Display Fingerprint Type based on OS

• Filtering based on OS enables quick location of relevant fingerprints.

Flexible Content Management

• Allows the deletion of obsolete patches.

Rapid Content Development

• Intuitive, easy-to-use interfaces allow the development custom packages in minutes to react to the latest threats.

Content Creation Across Heterogeneous Environments

• Lumension Content Wizard allows development of packages across a multitude of Operating Systems.

Immediate Content Distribution

• Content is seamlessly ported into your Lumension Patch and Remediation repository for automated, enterprise-wide deployment.

Continuous Monitoring

• Custom packages created with Lumension Content Wizard can be continually monitored and reported on through the Lumension Patch and Remediation interface.

Lumension Content Wizard

Lumension Product Line Support Offerings

Compliance Standards

Requirement 5: Use and regularly update anti-virus software

GCSX No 13 Protective Monitoring

A.10.10 Monitoring

Lumension Content Wizard Key Benefits

• Optimizes IT Efficiencies and Reduces IT Costs - By allowing you to address multiple management needs through a single solution, IT efficiency is improved resulting in operational expense savings for the enterprise.
• Ensures Entire Network Security - Provides 180-degree security coverage of both third party and custom in-house software.
• Optimizes IT Resources by Simplifying Patch Creation - Rapid process-driven creation of patches.
• Reduces Endpoint Energy Costs and Enforces Green Policies - Dramatically reduces power consumption by standardizing policy-based power settings of systems across the organization without the required investment of an additional power-management relying on a centrally managed domain or impacting user productivity.
• Improves Operational Efficiency - Simplifies remediation package development and provides centralized deployment, management and reporting on all custom IT scripts.
• Increases Your Overall Security Posture - Automates management and enforcement of local security configuration policies based on industry best practices.
• Optimizes IT Efficiencies and Improves Software Usage Compliance - Policy-based distribution and removal of new and updated software enables the optimization of IT and ensures compliance with software license agreements.
• Optimizes IT Efficiencies - Makes it easier for IT departments to share content with other department members – especially in air-gap environments.
• Minimizes IT Work Cycles - Allows you to be more efficient through a reduction of time required to develop custom remediation packages.
• Saves IT Time - System usability is improved making remediation package creation more efficient.
• Enables You to Stay Compliant - Allows you to simplify and maintain an up-to-date patch repository.
• Reduces Risk - The ability to respond rapidly to Zero-day threats mitigates enterprise risk with significant potential financial benefit.
• Delivers One Solution for Complex Environments - By providing system administrators a tool for addressing configuration and remediation, across operating systems, operation burden is reduced and efficiency improved.
• Saves Time and IT Operating Costs - Rapid application of content frees time for IT operations to focus on other corporate concerns.
• Simplifies Compliance - Visibility of package status helps ensure compliance with corporate operation and security policies.