F-Secure Policy Manager

F-Secure Policy Manager Overview:

Effective Central Management Tool

Save time and improve efficiency by centrally managing your security solution with the easiest management system on the market.

F-Secure® Policy Manager ™ is a free central management and distribution tool for IT administrators. It provides an easy and scalable way to deploy security applications, define and distribute security policies, and monitor security throughout your organization.

Policy Manager effectively manages critical network and content security solutions on all tiers of the network. Security policies can be changed and distributed to the entire organization in minutes.

Centralized Policy-Based Management
F-Secure Policy Manager is a distribution and management tool for administrators. It makes sure security policies keep users protected to all times, regardless of time and place.

Ease-of-Use and Deployment
It order to install and use F-Secure Policy Manager, no special IT skills are needed. In effect, F-Secure Policy Manager is the easiest security management tool available on the market. Getting it up and running takes only few minutes thanks to its high performance and appraised intuitive graphical user interface. Furthermore, there is no need to physically visit remote systems to install, update or configure security software. When installing F-Secure Client Security, other antivirus software can be remotely detected and automatically removed. Everything is done from one central location. Antivirus and security management is easier than ever!

Single Management for Multiple Defenses
Using F-Secure Policy Manager, IT administrators can manage antivirus, antispyware, antirootkit, behavior-monitoring, desktop firewall, intrusion prevention and application control on workstations and laptops. Using the same console, administrators can manage antispam, antivirus and content filtering on servers and gateways minimizing the cost and complexity of multi-vendor solution.

Virus Outbreak News
In case of severe global virus outbreak, the security alert is delivered directly from F-Secure Virus Research Laboratory to F-Secure Policy Manager Console. From the console, IT administrators can immediately check the protection status of the managed hosts.

Support for Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI)
IT administrators can export Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI) packages from F-Secure Policy Manager Console. The installation packages can be used with 3rd party software deployment tools.

Frequent Updates with Optimized Bandwidth
F-Secure has the most frequent virus definition updates in the industry to offer the highest possible protection for our customers. The virus definitions are updated using incremental delivery mechanism that minimizes the network bandwidth usage at every step.

F-Secure Policy Manager Console
Corporate security managers set up corporate policies in F-Secure Policy Manager Console. IT administrators then deploy and distribute all policy, configuration and installation files to F-Secure Policy Manager Server. IT administrators also receive alarms and alerts when security breaches are attempted but blocked.

F-Secure Policy Manager Server
The F-Secure Policy Manager server forces that host to download all new applications, upgrades and updates according to the security policies. Downloads are automatically unpacked and installed in the host computer, based on policies and configuration information. All this is done automatically and transparently in real time.

F-Secure Policy Manager Web Reporting
The detailed graphical reports in F-Secure Policy Manager Web Reporting allow administrators to identify computers that are unprotected or vulnerable to virus outbreaks before they actually occur. F-Secure Policy Manager Web Reporting provides over 40 pre-defined graphical reports, which makes it very easy and quick to locate unprotected computers, track virus outbreaks, validate security settings and present current security status in visual format.

F-Secure Policy Manager Proxy
F-Secure Policy Manager Proxy is designed to deliver daily virus definition database updates to remote offices over slow WAN connections. The updates are transferred only once over the slow network link and distributed locally to workstations and servers in the remote offices, which reduces significantly the traffic used for downloading the daily updates over the Internet.

Features & Benefits:

Business Benefits

• Ease of use and deployment. Features the easiest security management system available on the market and is up and running in minutes.
   
• Low total cost of ownership. Delivers ongoing cost savings - no need to physically visit remote offices, and no additional hardware or software required.
   
• Powerful policy-based management. Security policies can be changed and distributed to the entire organization in minutes. Reaction times on emerging security threats are short and the incidents can be avoided.
   
• Administrators are in control. Enforces corporate security policies and ensures that the end-users cannot bypass the protection.
   
• Extensive reporting. Generates comprehensive, web-based reports for monitoring the status of the entire managed network.

Features

• Centralized management of installations, updates, upgrades and monitoring.
   
• Low total cost of ownership - no additional software or hardware needed, and no manual installations
   
• Scalable management from small businesses to large enterprises
   
• Fast policy management to the entire organization in minutes
   
• Lock-down of client settings to prevent end-users switching off the protection
   
• Single management for multiple defenses. Management of antivirus, antispyware, antirootkit, behavior-monitoring, desktop firewall, intrusion prevention and application control on workstations and laptops. Management of antispam, antivirus and content filtering for servers and gateways.
   
• Support for F-Secure DeepGuard and F-Secure BlackLight
   
• Extensive graphical reporting on security alerts and network security status.
   
• Easy to add clients – no need to manually import individual computers
   
• Efficient database update technology

Solution:

Effective Central Management Tool

Policy Manager is a comprehensive and easy-to-use security management tool. Using one central console, IT administrators can add workstations, servers or even remote offices.

Policy Manager makes it easy for administrators to centrally install, update, upgrade and configure security software. Security policies can be changed and distributed to the entire organization in minutes. Policy Manager also generates web-based reports for monitoring the security status of the network.

Policy Manager can be used to manage all F-Secure business license products (Client Security, Anti-Virus for Workstations, as well as server, e-mail and web filtering products).

Specifications:

Supported Platforms

F-Secure Policy Manager Server and F-Secure Policy Manager Web Reporting

• Windows 2000/2003/2008 Server
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, 5
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, 10
• OpenSUSE 10.3
• Debian 4.0
• Ubuntu 8.04

F-Secure Policy Manager Console

• Same as for Server +
• Windows 2000/XP/Vista

F-Secure Policy Manager Proxy

• Windows 2000/2003
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4
• SUSE Linux 9, 10
• SUSE Linux Enterpise Server 9
• Debian 3.1

Supported Languages:

• English, French, German, Japanese

Screenshots:

F-Secure Policy Manager Console

DeepGuard 2.0 enabled	Manual Scanning	Real-time Scanning
Web Traffic Scanning	Integrated Outbreak Alerts and Monitoring	Network Quarantine
Antispyware	Summary

F-Secure Web Reporting

Attacks top 10	Antivirus products	Antivirus products details
Infections month	OS versions	Virus definitions details
Alerts Month	All time top 10 infections	Attack details

 

Documentation:

Download the F-Secure Policy Manager Datasheet (PDF).