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While many competitors rely exclusively on agentless methods crippled by remote registry and WMI misconfiguration issues, slow operation (single threaded) or high bandwidth usage (multithreaded), NEWT ® Professional uses a sophisticated light-weight (500KB) client automatically deployed to remote machines without any user intervention, providing a much faster scan of 100 machines in less than 5 minutes. There are several ways to pull this information, but running the following command will pull the following attributes by default (including many others):Įnter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.Network Inventory, Lightning Fast and On Demand. Finally we need to implement a process to remove any unauthorized software once it is detected. This inventory needs to also include the version information, so that we can monitor for, and apply, patches and upgrades. The the most basic level, we want to have a list of each software install on each device. Great! We’ve got a solid process in place to identify all the physical assets on our network – now we need to understand what is running on each of those devices.

Ensure that unauthorized software is either removed or the inventory is updated in a timely manner.

Unsupported software should be tagged as unsupported in the inventory system.

Ensure that only software applications or operating systems currently supported and receiving vendor updates are added to the organization’s authorized software inventory.

Maintain an up-to-date list of all authorized software that is required in the enterprise for any business purpose on any business system.

This means that, at a minimum, we want to:

For those of you reviewing the CIS Controls with the Implementation Groups in mind, there are three (3) IG1 controls and five (5) IG2 controls.

This control includes ten (10) sub controls. See the full listing here.Īctively manage (inventory, track, and correct) all software on the network so that only authorized software is installed and can execute, and that unauthorized and unmanaged software is found and prevented from installation or execution. I am working on a series of posts related to the Center for Internet Security (CIS) Critical Security Controls (CSCs).