GUARDIANEDGE ALTIRIS® CONNECTOR

Server Deployment and Reporting Integration

An effective approach to protecting data on endpoints includes not only data loss protection via encryption, but also the ability to effectively manage systems, configurations, applications, and asset inventory. By actively managing the entire asset lifecycle, the Altiris® Asset Management Solution from Symantec addresses key components of this need. The GuardianEdge Altiris Connector extends this single console environment, making crucial data protection controls for deployment and monitoring available directly from the Altiris Notification Server™.

The GuardianEdge Altiris Connector integrates directly with the Altiris Notification Server™ Console, allowing IT administrators to improve security by streamlining the deployment and monitoring of GuardianEdge Hard Disk Encryption and GuardianEdge Removable Storage Encryption through the same familiar management console they already use for asset management, configuration management, patch and update control and more.

This integration allows organizations to proactively identify and protect systems at risk of data loss. Once identified, administrators can easily create installation packages and deploy GuardianEdge Hard Disk Encryption and Removable Storage Encryption to those endpoints from the Altiris console. Once deployed, the combined solution makes it simple to monitor completion, compliance and ongoing audit status from the console.

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By deploying GuardianEdge Altiris Integration in combination with GuardianEdge Hard Disk Encryption and Removable Storage Encryption organizations can use the Altiris Notification Server Console to:

  • Proactively discover systems that present risks to protected information and remediate
  • Easily create and deploy installation packages for GuardianEdge Hard Disk Encryption, Removable Storage Encryption and Advanced Authentication from the familiar Altiris Notification Server environment
  • View and create standard and custom reports for the state of deployment and installation, details of deployments, check-in and one-time password recoveries and more.
 

Altiris® Connector Key Benefits

  • Simplified data protection administration for organizations using Altiris® Asset Management Solutions by enabling quick and easy operation from this familiar console environment
  • Leverage the rich asset view offered by Altiris Asset Management Solution to identify machines that present data loss risk, and remediate directly from the asset management console
  • Minimize cost of ownership of data protection controls by enabling management through existing infrastructure, leveraging existing software lifecycle management processes, and by reducing the burden of administrative training
 

Supported GuardianEdge Products

  • GuardianEdge Software Deployment:
    • GuardianEdge Hard Disk Encryption 9.1.0 or later
    • GuardianEdge Removable Storage Encryption 3.1.0 or later
  • GuardianEdge Client Monitoring:
    • GuardianEdge Hard Disk Encryption 8.2.0 or later
    • GuardianEdge Removable Storage Encryption 2.0.0 or later
  • Two-factor User Authentication:
    • GuardianEdge Advanced Authentication 1.0 or later (included in other Hard Disk Encryption and Removable Storage Encryption package creation)

Deployment

  • Configure initial data protection policies
  • One-click deployment

Standard Hard Disk Encryption Reporting

  • Installation status
  • Installed software by OS
  • Installed software by GuardianEdge Hard Disk Encryption version
  • Systems without GuardianEdge Hard Disk Encryption
  • Drive encryption status: encrypted, number of partitions
  • Last check in status
  • One-time password recoveries

Standard Removable Storage Encryption Reporting

  • Installation status
  • Installed software by OS
  • Installed software by GuardianEdge Removable Storage Encryption version
  • Systems without GuardianEdge Removable Storage Encryption
  • Removable Storage Encryption policy
  • Removable Storage Encryption recovery certificate availability
  • Removable Storage Encryption portability
  • Last check-in status

Common reports for GuardianEdge products

  • Registered users: Date of registration and number of registered users
  • Client administrators
  • Local client administrators

Extended monitoring for earlier versions of GuardianEdge Products

  • GuardianEdge Framework and Hard Disk versions 8.2.0 or greater
  • GuardianEdge Removable Storage version 2.0.0 or greater

Client OS support

  • Microsoft Windows® Vista Business, Enterprise and Ultimate 32 bit Editions
  • Windows XP Professional and Tablet Edition
  • Windows 2000

Enterprise management console OS support

  • Windows XP Professional 32 bit
  • Windows Vista Business, Enterprise and Ultimate 32 bit
  • Windows Server 2003 Standard or Enterprise
  • All - .Net 1.1 or 2.0

Alitiris Notification Server

  • Altiris Notification Server 6.0 SP3 Rollup Pack 7

Server requirements:

  • Windows Server 2003, Standard or Enterprise
  • Database - Microsoft SQL Server 2000 SP5, or SQL Server 2005
  • .NET 1.1 or 2.0
 

General Questions

  1. What does the GuardianEdge Altiris Connector do?
    The GuardianEdge™ Altiris Connector provides integration for GuardianEdge Hard Disk Encryption and GuardianEdge Removable Storage Encryption with the Altiris® Notification Server™. Three core capabilities are enabled with this integration:
    • Monitor the environment for systems that are a data loss risk
    • Create and deploy GuardianEdge software installation packages for GuardianEdge Hard Disk Encryption and GuardianEdge Removable Storage Encryption
    • Report on the data protection status of systems and installations
  2. How is the GuardianEdge Altiris connector installed?
    On a single server, customers:
    • First install the Altiris Notification Server software
    • Then install the GuardianEdge Management Console and GuardianEdge Server software on the same machine
    • And finally install the GuardianEdge Altiris Connector on that same server
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