“It would therefore be desirable to provide systems and methods to automatically facilitate implementation of a secure configuration management strategy in a way that results in an accurate and ...

When systems engineers build or repair computer software or hardware, they need consistent processes in place to keep it running smoothly. Configuration management is the name for this set of ...

Microsoft announced the "general availability" commercial release today of System Center Configuration Manager 1511. The company also released System Center Endpoint Protection 1511. Both products can ...

Configuration files remain a critical part of system deployment and management. Configuration file management is essential to maintain secure, available and consistent environments for users and ...

So I've actually been up to my neck in a rather huge Puppet deployment with many thousands of clients over the last 6 months, and am curious as to whether we have any other Arsians doing work with ...

Version control woes are still a real issue. Of course, control system integrators try to manage all the content associated with your projects, but sooner or later things can get out of hand and they ...

Network configuration management (NCM) is the process of organizing and maintaining information about all the components in a computer network. When a network needs repair, modification, expansion or ...

(1) In a network, a system for gathering current configuration information from all nodes in a LAN. (2) In software development, a system for keeping track of large projects. Although version control, ...

The security management system or configuration management database provides the role and business value of each node, and a topology database (generated by a network configuration management system ...

The frenzy of activity triggered by a network attack requires a new approach to threat management, one that makes the network and its resources a partner in its own defense and allows security and ...