Articles, Security & Compliance

If you plan to use Kerberos authentication yet are not familiar with nor own the Microsoft Active Directory infrastructure in your environment, share this article with those who do manage that environment. You will need their assistance to be successful, especially since some of the steps will require directory administrator rights to complete.

This article includes items to be aware of when using SAN technology with SQL Server and Altiris products. Thanks to the Notification Server Sustained Engineering team for initial development work on this document.

There are multiple exploits, or vulnerabilities, in Altiris' Deployment Solution software that have recently been discovered by Brett Moore of Insomnia Security and Alex Hernandez of Syb Security. The vulnerability is considered as an elevation of privileges vulnerability and is classified as moderate severity to highly critical.

Symantec's next-generation endpoint protection product is one of the first solutions to be integrated with the Altiris Notification Server platform. This article discusses the integration points.

Have you ever been asked by someone for access to a report or set of reports and spent ages in the Notification Server trying to figure out how security works and how to set it up? Usually the answer has been to give that user administrative rights rather than spend time trying to figure out how to give them permission to see just one folder or a set of folders. Either that or create a report and simply email it to them. Security within the Notification Server can get quite confusing when you start getting into roles, privileges, permissions and inheritance. I for one have been spending a lot of time trying to figure it out and have tried to make the topic of securing the NS as easy as possible.

The Altiris 6.5 console provides a number of reports and dashboards that give us good high level information about what's happening within Altiris but the problem with this is that all the information is found in a number of different places. What I get asked continually is where can I go to see all the high level information that I need to see? Management or Executives may not have permission to see all the reports within the console or they may not want to have to browse for different summary information. This guide will help you build what is called an executive dashboard which is one page that provides people such as executives or managers all the information they need at the right level of detail and nothing else. See the image below for what the finished dashboard will look like.

Adherence to the following guidelines when authoring a Windows Installer package helps maintain a secure environment during installation:

Helpdesk Solution has a wonderful array of options to help cut back on some of the grief that your helpdesk staff might have. I've quickly learned that one of the fastest ways to get buy-in for a new product is by maximizing ease of use. Tasks are a great way to improve ease of use for your Helpdesk workers, especially when you are using new solutions.

In this article I'll show you how to access console resources for Local Security Solution by creating a new Helpdesk Solution task. With some additional research, some of these techniques can be used to generate tasks for other Altiris products.