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Shavlik Technologies Releases NetChk^® Compliance 3.0 with Additional Flexibility to Simplify and Automate Organizations’ Efforts to Prove and Enforce Compliance

ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Shavlik Technologies, LLC, the market leader in simplifying complex enterprise network configuration, compliance and security, today announced availability of its latest version of Shavlik NetChk^® Compliance. The new features in Shavlik NetChk Compliance 3.0 provide Shavlik customers with additional flexibility to respond quickly to demands for proof that certain measures have been taken to manage risk across the network and maintain system security.

Many organizations today are looking at various technologies and how they might increase operational efficiencies by automating the steps required to ensure the proper IT controls are in place and compare those against internal and external mandated policies. Shavlik NetChk Compliance 3.0 makes it even easier to streamline compliance efforts and start showing proof immediately, rather than a months-long IT project that many of the compliance solutions available today require.

“Automating audit preparedness has been an important initiative in our organization this year,” stated the information security director at a global e-commerce solution provider. “We can’t afford the operational slow down when our IT staff must be pulled off critical projects to gather data for an impending IT audit. NetChk Compliance has greatly simplified our compliance efforts by providing us with a ‘push button audit’ process that allows us to quickly review our risk and compliance levels, and remediate and report on any discovered issues, before the audit begins.”

New in Shavlik NetChk Compliance 3.0

The following features in Shavlik NetChk Compliance 3.0 allow Shavlik customers to quickly respond to emerging mandates and approach their next audit with confidence:

·     Policy Cloning and Distribution – Shavlik NetChk Compliance offers a unique feature that allows customers to create or import policies or mandated configurations and then automatically clone and distribute them to other systems across the network.

·     Custom Checks Wizard – Enterprises can expand upon the system checks available out-of-the-box to customize Shavlik NetChk Compliance to meet the needs of their unique environment.

·     Change Management – Shavlik NetChk Compliance manages the data related to policy and configuration changes and provides reporting of these changes to help customers address IT and regulatory agency requirements for auditing, managing and maintaining security.

“The cost of compliance for our customers continues to grow as they must assess and compare their system compliance against multiple mandates, such as SOX, PCI, and GLBA, and multiple times, over the course of a single year,” said Mark Shavlik, CEO of Shavlik Technologies. “Our focus on delivering simplicity and flexibility within our solutions is clearly working as we continue to receive feedback from our customers on how Shavlik NetChk Compliance helps them lower operational costs and reduce their risk of exposure by automating many of the tasks required to assess system health and prepare for IT audits.”

About Shavlik Technologies

Shavlik Technologies, LLC is the market leader in the simplification of complex enterprise network configuration, compliance and security. Shavlik’s solutions support an organization’s need for Active Vulnerability Management^® – the automated and continual process for preventing, detecting, and removing critical security threats from corporate networks while maintaining policy-driven security configurations.

Founded in 1993, Shavlik Technologies is the de facto industry standard for patch management solutions. With more than 10,000 customers worldwide, Shavlik is trusted to provide the most up-to-date security patch data and the most comprehensive discovery capability to maintain a customer’s overall network security integrity. Company CEO Mark Shavlik is a founder of the patch management industry as he teamed with Microsoft in 1999 to create the patch engine for Microsoft Base Security Analyzer (MBSA). This technology is still used by an installed base of millions of users across the globe. Shavlik also licenses its technology to more than 20 leading security companies such as IBM, BMC, Symantec and iPass. Shavlik’s products have won multiple awards from leading industry trade journals.