Aelita also has a tool, and Configuresoft.

The major problem with the NetIQ and BindView
offerings is the licensing.

What is the goal of the reporting? Configuration
management, Change management, overall security
posture? That has a definate impact on the tools that
are useful.

--- Nicole Curcio <default (at) nik2 (dot) com [email concealed]> wrote:
> Another similar tool is Symantec's Enterprise
> Security Manager (ESM).
> We've had Bindview and ESM both in our environment
> for several years and
> each has it's own specialties. We are also in the
> process of reviewing
> CA's Policy Compliance in comparison to ESM. I
> personally like the
> functionality of ESM better from what I've seen so
> far, but there are
> quite a few things you can do with Bindview that ESM
> does not do.
> -nicole
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barrett, Andy
> [mailto:andy.barrett (at) rma.usda (dot) gov [email concealed]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 12:45 PM
> To: focus-ms (at) securityfocus (dot) com [email concealed]
> Subject: RE: security tools
>
> There's similar software made by Ecora (Auditor) and
> CA (Policy
> Compliance) that you can take a look at. We demoed
> the offerings from
> NetIQ, BindView, Ecora, and CA in this area, and are
> in the process of
> making a decision regarding which software to
> ultimately purchase. Each
> one is good in it's own right, and does a very good
> job in auditing the
> various aspects of LDAP Directories and servers.
> The main differences
> we've found, besides price, are in the reporting and
> the detail of data
> audited by the software, i.e. some will pull the
> membership in a group,
> others will only pull information on the group
> itself. Good luck!!!
>
> Andy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Augusto Quadros Paes de Barros
> [mailto:augusto (at) paesdebarros.com (dot) br [email concealed]]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 7:12 AM
> To: focus-ms (at) securityfocus (dot) com [email concealed]
> Subject: security tools
>
> Greetings,
>
> I'd like to hear about tools like BindView -
> BVControl and NetiQ - VSM /
> FSA. Are there any other alternatives that people
> from the list
> know/use?
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Augusto Paes de Barros
> http://www.paesdebarros.com.br
>
>
>
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