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MSP News: Savant Protection Introduces Enforcer Product that Targets Malware
July 08, 2011
A leading provider of Automated Application Whitelisting solutions, Savant Protection, has introduced Savant Enforcer, a product that balances the need for privileged users to control their computers and IT requirements to protect the organization against malware that bypasses their anti-virus products.
In a press release, Josh Corman, research director, Enterprise Security Practice at The 451 Group, said, “As IT consumerization, social media, and adaptive persistent adversaries continue to transcend and undermine conventional security, it is increasingly necessary to adapt our security and policy enforcement. In the right use cases, application control can reduce the chances of running malicious, unwanted, and even vulnerable (elective) applications. Vendors such as Savant Protection are focused on helping with these challenges.”
Savant Enforcer will help MSPs in offering the highest level of security against malware and provide different levels of trust to their customers' end users: from strict application policy enforcement to enabling them to independently add applications. For the first time, MSPs can easily protect their diverse customer environments from un-trusted changes without restricting approved users from installing the software they need to do their jobs. In addition, Savant Enforcer also enables MSPs to reduce their service costs and to significantly reduce unproductive downtime at their customers by limiting the number of endpoint problems that require remediation.
Robert Kamsler, VP of engineering, Savant Protection, said, “Savant Enforcer allows MSPs as well as organizations to provide key users, the ones who need access the most but often are the greatest targets of cyber criminals, to add software themselves without adding risk to the organization. By providing the flexibility to control the ability to install software based on end user type we can now help satisfy the business needs of the organization while maintaining the utmost security. As the application whitelisting solution noted for innovating the technology, we are pleased that this solution validates our approach of offering all the security advantages of application whitelisting without the business headaches.”
Savant Protection was in news recently when it announced the latest release of its award-winning and patented solution including coverage for Windows 7 clients. The Savant Protection Version 4 extends its scalability by bolstering its Enterprise Management System (EMS). This allows administrators to easily oversee and configure permissions for multiple EMSs on one system.
Sujata Garud is a MSPNews™ freelancer with three years of writing/editing experience and two years of market research experience. As an editor she has covered the IT, electronics, banking, pharma, construction, mining and healthcare industries. To see more of her articles, please visit her columnist page.
Edited by Rich Steeves
