Gravity Storm Software Enhances its Security Patch Management Tool, Service Pack Manager 2000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Free-Press-Release.com) July 1, 2003 -- San Diego, CA (July 2, 2003): Gravity Storm Software

today announced the release of Service Pack Manager 2000

version 6.9.5.0. This automated enterprise-wide security utility

enables administrators to analyze and fix security vulnerabilities

and stability problems in Windows NT/2000/XP and additional Microsoft

products, such as SQL, IIS, ISA, Exchange, IE, and others.

The new version also supports Windows 2003 Server family and

Service Pack 4 for Windows 2000. The software is agentless and operates

on remote machines from a central console.



Viruses such as the recent SQL Slammer worm, Code Red and

Nimda worms could be prevented if the systems were patched with

existing patches using Service Pack Manager 2000.



Service Pack Manager 2000 customer base experiences enormous growth.

It includes government organizations such as Pentagon, NASA, Edwards

Airforce Base, Flight Test Pilot School, Sealift Command, VA medical

centers, universities, and variety of financial institutions and

high-tech businesses.



The new version enhances the product's ability to manage security

patching of small, medium, and large business at the enterprise level

by providing a range of new features and improvements, including

custom template-based reporting, enhanced filtering, as well as an

ability to organize enterprise network as a hierarchical groups of

machines based on user's arbitrary criteria:



- Reporting

Template-based report wizard allows customization of the scan results,

including report appearance and filtering based on variety criteria,

such as hotfix severity rating, security hotfixes, OS version, Service

Pack level, and more. The templates can be stored in a centralized

location on a network share.



- NetGroups

The NetGroups feature has been revamped to allow users to create

custom hierarchical groups of computers of unlimited nesting levels,

organized by user's arbitrary criteria. All the NetGroups functionality

is available either by intuitive drag-n-drop or from right-click popup menu

on the network tree. Adding computers to the custom groups can be done

wither by machine name, IP address, or a range of IP addresses. The IP

addresses resolution is optional, allowing display of the machines on the

network tree by their IP addresses. Export/import of the selected custom

groups to/from .CSV text files is included.



- Filtering Scan Results

- Hotfix Severity Rating are included in hotfix detailed information.

- Scheduled Administrative Alerts to multiple remote machines

- Numerous User Interface Improvements, including Balloon Tips



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Gravity Storm Software

3525 Del Mar Height Road, #630

San Diego, CA 92130, USA

mailto:gstorm@securitybastion.com

http://www.securitybastion.com

(858)-792-0162

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