Control Manager is software designed to manage antivirus and content security products deployed across the organization's local and wide area networks.
Control Manager provides the following:
Centralized configuration, using the Product Directory and cascading management structure, allows you to coordinate virus-response and content security efforts from a single management console. This ensures consistent enforcement of your organization's virus and content security policies.
With Outbreak Prevention Services (OPS), take proactive steps to secure your network against an emerging virus outbreak.
Secure communication infrastructure
Control Manager uses a communications infrastructure built on the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol. Depending on the security settings used, Control Manager can encrypt messages with or without authentication.
Secure configuration and component download
These features allow you to configure secure Management console access and component download.
System administrators can give personalized accounts with customized privileges to Control Manager management console users. User accounts define what the user can see and do to the Control Manager network. Track account usage through user logs.
This feature allows you to monitor all commands executed using the Control Manager management console. Command Tracking is useful for determining whether or not Control Manager successfully performs long-duration commands — like virus pattern update and deployment.
Control Manager provides you with real-time product control. Control Manager immediately carries out actions and applies configuration modifications made on the management console to the managed products. System administrators can run manual scans from the management console. This command system is indispensable during a virus outbreak.
Centralized updates of spam rules, virus patterns, scan engines, and other antivirus and content security components ensure that all products contain the latest security risk protection. View your entire network�s protection status from a single management console.