What’s New in LANDesk® Security Suite 8.7

Comprehensive Patch Content

LANDesk® Updates comprehensive patch content includes updates for these applications and more:

  • Adobe Acrobat Reader
  • Apple security updates
  • Dell server Updates
  • FireFox
  • iTunes
  • Java runtime environment
  • Lenovo ThinkPad applications
  • Macromedia Flash Player
  • Microsoft Security Bulletins for MS products
  • QuickTime
  • RealVNC
  • Thunderbird
  • Unix, Linux, Solaris Security updates
  • Yahoo Messenger

Connection Control Manager Enhancements

  • Includes the option to allow or block the biometric fingerprint reader for USB devices.
  • Choose to disable wireless access universally or only when a wired LAN connection is available.
  • Enjoy the option of assigning specific configurations based on whether the network the system is connecting to is listed or unlisted.

Enhanced Security Configuration Audits

  • Access the ability to not only detect security threats but also remediate them.

Enhanced Application Blocking

  • Includes a description column and field for added insight and control.

Extended Patch Management Platform Support

  • Perform vulnerability assessment and remediation on systems running Red Hat and SUSE.

Enhanced Antivirus Enforcement and Firewall Capabilities

  • Enforce your Sophos antivirus solution in addition to McAfee, Norton, Symantec or Trend-Micro solution.
  • Configure one firewall for all systems or customize the firewall configuration for individual systems or groups of systems.

Enhanced Security Assurance.

  • Configure LANDesk® Security Suite columns to show the data that’s most important to your enterprise—you determine column order, add a CVE ID column and whether to sort columns in ascending or descending order.
  • Enforce a unique security standard for a system’s role, exposure and criticality by assigning the system a custom variable profiles created by you or your IT team.

Extended Inventory Management

  • Access LANDesk’s extended device discovery for a scalable discovery process for real-time subnet-level tracking of unmanaged networked devices even if those devices have a firewall enabled.
  • Access inventory service performance that’s up to 30% more efficient and includes the option to utilize between one and eight threads.
  • Offload data collection and insertion to a server other than the core for increased efficiency.