Symantec captured its fourth of five Readers' Choice awards in the category of Best Security Scanner. Symantec Enterprise Security Manager edged out last year's winner, NetIQ's Security Analyzer.
Symantec Enterprise Security Manager manages security policy compliance of e-business applications and OSs across the enterprise. It performs more than 1500 checks to assess policy compliance and security on servers, workstations, routers, hubs, applications, and databases, and provides reports detailing policy compliance and security vulnerabilities. Administrators can use Symantec Enterprise Security Manager's intelligent tools to easily create performance baselines to help identify systems that aren't in compliance and correct faulty settings to bring systems back into compliance. The product is easy to deploy, and administrators can customize it for a variety of specific regulatory requirements.