(Source: Tripwire) With security breaches on the rise, demands on IT to attain compliance with industry standards and regulations, and the need to deliver reliable, high-performing services to business users, gaining control over system configurations is a critical challenge that IT must meet head-on. While attempting to meet this challenge, IT must contend with a multitude of issues that range from hard to wrangle virtual environments to the impact of improper configuration change. Configuration assessment solutions help IT address these issues and provide features and capabilities that allow IT to bring the organization's technology infrastructure into a known and trusted state.

In this whitepaper you'll discover:

-Why IT finds it hard to gain control over the configuration of the IT infrastructure.
-What configuration assessment is.
-What types of configuration assessment solutions are currently available, along with their benefits and shortcomings.
-What features and capabilities a truly useful configuration assessment solution must have.
-How Tripwire Enterprise combines configuration assessment with change auditing in a single solution to help IT achieve and maintaining configuration control.

Download this whitepaper to learn what you need to look for in a configuration assessment solution to enhance your organization's systems security, get and stay compliant with relevant industry standards and regulations, and improve operational efficiencies.