Manage Mobile Computers
Policies executed by a BigFix Agent stay in force even when a managed device leaves an enterprise network. This is particularly important for managing mobile/laptop/notebook computers. Not only can mobile computers stay “in policy” as they roam, BigFix customers can maintain visibility and control over mobile computers by creating enterprise website DMZ areas for BigFix management communications. Any time a BigFix-managed mobile computer connects to the Internet, it automatically connects to the DMZ to report configuration changes and/or receive new policies and content (software, patches, anti-virus updates etc.) from the BigFix Console.

Single Source of Truth
BigFix real-time visibility means that compliance-related information is always ready for reporting without tasking IT departments to undertake time-consuming and inaccurate time-lapsed infrastructure-wide scans. This not only ensures accuracy, but reduces staff workloads, compliance costs, and can take the pain out of an audit. With BigFix you have a single source of truth for inventory, vulnerability, and asset status data for your critical compliance reporting.

BigFix Existing Infrastructure
Customer experience proves that adding BigFix to enhance incumbent IT security and management solutions often results in return on investment gains that exceed the cost of the BigFix license. Whether it’s “BigFixing” Microsoft SMS, Cisco NAC, or managing and reporting on third-party antivirus and anti-spyware products, gains can result in ensuring that they are functioning properly, that they’re up to date with the latest versions, and that the actions they report as “done” have actually taken effect on all your endpoints.

Think Global, Act Local
Regardless of the curveballs that get thrown your way, you can be fully prepared for any eventuality with BigFix. Because you can now directly query your entire infrastructure you can ask questions and get answers to almost anything in seconds and minutes without manual intervention. Need to know battery serial numbers for a manufacturer’s recall? Just ask. Need to know who’s got Adobe Acrobat installed but not using it? Just ask. Need to find out who’s going to be affected by a daylight savings time bug? Just ask. You get immediate answers that eliminate the guesswork and manual costs from your IT equation.

Maintain Business Continuity
BigFix Discovery 7 adds new abilities to configure back-up BigFix Consoles and Servers to maintain infrastructure-wide visibility and control in the face of natural and unnatural disasters. This not only fortifies the availability of BigFix in the face of disruption, but also helps to quickly assess the damage while keeping multiple network segments fully secure and under management until the primary Console can be brought back on-line.

Pervasive Real-Time Visibility and Continuous Control
BigFix discovers virtually every endpoint on your network, then brings them in from the cold. Once installed on the endpoint, the BigFix Agent continuously reports any and all state and configuration changes back to the BigFix Console as they happen. This gives administrators real-time system status information—from individual endpoints to the entire enterprise. Configuration actions, vulnerability fixes, access controls, software updates all take place just as fast. Infrastructure managers can even watch the progress of a management action as it progresses through the entire infrastructure.

Single Agent, Multiple Functions
The BigFix Agent performs a growing number of services that cover Asset Discovery and Inventory, Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, Data Leak Prevention, Patch Management, Power Management, Security Policy Enforcement, Software Distribution, Vulnerability Assessment and Remediation. Consuming only 2-4 megabytes of system memory, the BigFix Agent can be throttled to no more than two percent of processor bandwidth.

Consolidated Management
BigFix not only consolidates management and reporting at the device level, administrators see and control all BigFix services through the BigFix Console. By reducing tool clutter at both the device and management levels, BigFix helps you cut licensing costs for multiple tools while building up deeply grooved, knowledge bases that improve operational efficiencies.

Any Platform
BigFix is not a Windows-only solution. The BigFix Agent runs on all platforms including Mac OS, Linux, UNIX and all flavors of Windows including Vista. Now you can finally have a single IT management solution that can handle all your computers and computing platforms.

Unsurpassed Scalability
BigFix has brought real-time visibility and control to infrastructures ranging from hundreds to hundreds-of-thousands managed devices. Because BigFix uses existing infrastructure to provide communications and management workload processing resources, the larger the device population, the larger the available resource pool to support BigFix.

Minimal Investment for Dedicated Infrastructure
Since BigFix largely uses the processing power and network bandwidth organizations already have, this imposes minimal need to invest in dedicated infrastructure to support a BigFix solution. In practice, a single $5,000-$10,000 class server can support a BigFix solution managing up to 200,000 endpoints. No other vendor can come close to this ratio.

Customization on the Fly
BigFix enables qualified administrators to create and launch ad-hoc policies and routines for execution by the BigFix Agent. In addition to providing a powerful tool to mold a BigFix solution to meet unique requirements, it helps organizations cope with security and IT management surprises that occur all too frequently.

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