Lumension, a global provider of endpoint management and security, has announced the release of the Lumension Risk Manager, the latest addition to its Lumension compliance and IT risk-management solution.

Lumension Risk Manager is designed to help organizations achieve lower costs of compliance by automating IT audit workflows, harmonizing controls with policy requirements, and providing greater visibility across IT assets for optimal security and compliance management.

Key Benefits of Lumension Compliance and IT Risk Management include:

Reduction in external audit resources: Provides IT organizations with a comprehensive compliance and IT risk management framework. IT resources are associated with critical business interests, and harmonized controls are established to meet multiple compliance and policy mandates. This capability supports a reduction in third-party consulting resources used to define control and policy requirements to support external regulatory mandates.

Assess once, comply with many: Reduces audit burden and overall cost of compliance by measuring and reporting on compliance across multiple industry and governmental regulations while harmonizing control requirements to best meet these mandates. These capabilities will enable organizations to assess once and report on many regulations simultaneously, rather than using multiple technologies that usually lack a complete, global view of regulations.

Focus on IT risk that matters most to the business: Gives companies ability to continuously monitor their overarching risk and compliance posture and proactively identify and prioritize IT risk deficiencies in the context of their overall compliance and policy requirements. This enhanced visibility allows organizations to more efficiently utilize existing IT resources to address those deficiencies impacting organizational compliance and IT risk posture the most.

Further, through a partnership with Network Frontiers, Lumension has integrated the Unified Compliance Framework within Lumension Risk Manager. This integration delivers a library of over 400 authoritative documents and 2500 harmonized controls. Periodic updates to the UCF framework ensure customers will always have the latest compliance and control requirements.