Opsware Enhances Vulnerability Management and Compliance Features in Innovative Subscription Service
April 25 2007 - 3:01AM
Business Wire
Opsware Inc. (NASDAQ: OPSW), the leading provider of Data Center
Automation software, today announced a major update to its
ground-breaking online subscription service for compliance and
vulnerability management, The Opsware Network. Available
immediately, The Opsware Network 2.0 includes thousands of
additional security and compliance checks, as well as a new Opsware
community element that provides a portal to community forums and
projects and access to additional content available for download to
the Opsware Data Center Automation suite. The industry�s only
subscription service for automating software and content delivery
to servers and network devices, The Opsware Network helps customers
using Opsware�s Server and Network Automation Systems keep their IT
infrastructure up-to-date with the latest vulnerability alerts and
compliance policies. As new alerts and policies are issued, The
Opsware Network automatically determines which of these are
relevant to a customer�s specific environment, and then applies
those updates dynamically to the vulnerable or non-compliant data
center infrastructure. Opsware is the only vendor to offer such an
automated and dynamic compliance and vulnerability management
service. This automates what is otherwise a massive and lengthy
manual task for many IT departments for whom it is otherwise
prohibitively difficult and expensive to stay current.
Traditionally, vulnerability management has been a manual process
beginning with email notifications from the individual vendors
whose products are used in a data center. Deciphering such emails
from multiple vendors and determining whether or not they apply to
a unique IT environment, which in a large organization might
include many thousands of servers and network devices, can take
days or even weeks, all the while leaving the environment in a
vulnerable state. Furthermore, the remediation steps to fix these
vulnerabilities are not always clear and notifying the appropriate
parties can be challenging. The Opsware Network keeps customers
informed and up-to-date by delivering actionable vulnerability
alerts and compliance policies for Opsware�s software, ensuring
that security and policy violations impacting the IT environment
can be immediately rectified. The Opsware Network service consists
of two components: The Opsware Network Subscription Service and The
Opsware Network Community. The Opsware Network Subscription Service
delivers critical vulnerability and compliance content to Opsware�s
Server Automation System and Network Automation System. It
establishes a direct link to customers, delivering late-breaking
updates and remediation solutions that are applicable to their
unique environment. The service helps ensure that vulnerable IT
assets are quickly identified, the right parties are notified and
necessary information is readily available to those who need it.
The service also includes compliance policies for industry and
regulatory standards such as PCI, HIPAA, SOX, and FISMA. More than
2,000 compliance checks have been added to the latest version of
The Opsware Network. The Opsware Network Community is a portal to
Opsware-delivered content that facilitates a cooperative
environment across the Opsware user community. It delivers
essential automation content across the Opsware product family,
including industry-standard security best-practices policies for
operating systems, network devices, and applications. Community
users can monitor and contribute to user forums and submit projects
to The Opsware Network Community. This open forum allows the users
to share automation content and leverage the combined intelligence
of the Opsware community. �Anyone who has ever managed enterprise
initiatives like security and compliance understands that they
require continuous maintenance and attention to detail,� said Tim
Howes, CTO at Opsware Inc. �By distilling the onslaught of security
updates that fill a typical IT manager�s inbox on a daily basis,
and providing the tools to take action on those updates, The
Opsware Network delivers valuable cost savings and peace of mind.�
About Opsware Inc. (NASDAQ: OPSW) Opsware, the world�s leading IT
automation company, unlocks the promise of technology by
accelerating IT to zero latency. The company�s software, the
Opsware System, automates the entire data center, from provisioning
to patching, configuration to compliance and discovery to
deployment, turning data center operations into a competitive
advantage for business. Opsware�s technology is used by hundreds of
companies worldwide including banks, service providers, retailers,
manufacturers and Internet companies with IT environments ranging
from hundreds to tens of thousands of servers, network devices,
storage devices and IT processes. For more information on Opsware
Inc., please visit our Web site at www.opsware.com. Opsware is a
service mark and trademark of Opsware Inc. All other product names,
service marks, and trademarks mentioned herein are trademarks of
their respective owners. This press release contains
forward-looking statements regarding the benefits and capabilities
of our software products. These statements are subject to risks and
uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially
from these statements, including the risk that the assumptions
underlying our current business strategy may change, that our
experience operating as a software company is limited, and that the
products may not perform as described. More information about these
and other factors that could affect our business are included in
our Form 10-K filed with the SEC on April 14, 2006 under the
headings �Risk Factors� and �Management�s Discussion and Analysis
of Financial Condition and Results of Operations� and the Forms
10-Q and 8-K that we file during the fiscal year. The determination
of when the new automation capabilities described in this release
will be made generally available, if ever, remains at the sole
discretion of Opsware Inc.
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