IBM Tivoli and Cisco manual Conclusion

Action	Notes	Reference
Define or create HTML	Maps the posture policy to	8.3, “Creating
pages for assistance with	meaningful information to	remediation instructions
remediation process.	inform the user why they	for the users” on
	have been marked	page 397
	noncompliant, as well as
	what steps they have to
	take to remediate.
Configure remediation	Links the Security	8.4, “Building the
workflows.	Compliance Manager	remediation workflows”
	policy to the remediation	on page 417
	actions.

4.4 Conclusion

Armando Banking Brothers Corporation (ABBC) is a company with a long history of leading-edge technology adoption. ABBC is well aware of the rising threats of computer viruses, worms, and the exploitation of known system vulnerabilities for which preventive measures exist. ABBC previously installed several IBM Tivoli security products in order to provide secure, scalable identity and access management of their IT infrastructure. More recently, in the face of growing concerns over threats, compliance-related risk, and government regulations, ABBC installed the IBM Security Compliance Manager product and uses it to proactively monitor compliance of their servers.

As the next major undertaking, ABBC is extending the Security Compliance Manager coverage to include the workstation systems of their internal and mobile workforce. The deployment of the Security Compliance Manager client to the ABBC workstations, through integration with Cisco Systems componentry, enables ABBC to deploy a Network Admission Control system based on posture compliance status.

ABBC intends to build the solution out of three major parts. The first part includes the deployment of the Security Compliance infrastructure and establishment of baseline posture policies. The second part covers the deployment and configuration of the network components to limit the network access for the noncompliant workstations. Finally, the third part extends the solution to include automatic remediation reusing the already existing Software Distribution software.

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