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IBM Vulnerability Management Products

Published: 13 November 2007

ID: G00203377

Analyst(s): Eric Maiwald

Summary

IBM offers agentless vulnerability assessment with the Proventia product line and agent-based vulnerability assessment and remediation with the Tivoli product line. Management consoles between the product lines have not been integrated. Existing IBM customers on one product line will see only limited additional benefits by adding products from the other product line. In this Product Profile document, Senior Analyst Eric Maiwald examines the features and shortcomings of the IBM vulnerability management products.

Table Of Contents

Analysis

  • History
  • Impact of ISS Acquisition
  • Editing, Viewing, and Creating Vulnerability Checks
  • Risk Calculations
  • Exception Handling
  • Workflow
  • Remediation
  • Standards Support
  • Proventia Integration
  • Bottom-Line Assessment

The Details

  • Asset Discovery
  • Vulnerability Identification
    • Proventia
    • Tivoli
  • Classification and Prioritization
  • Exception Handling
  • Workflow
    • Proventia
    • Tivoli
  • Remediation
  • Management Capabilities
    • Proventia
    • Tivoli

Standards Support

A Worked Example

Pricing

Other Points of Integration

Roadmap

Conclusion

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