Network Provisioning

The Provisioning process monitors access rights and privileges to ensure the security of an enterprise's resources and user privacy. As a secondary responsibility, it ensures compliance and minimizes the vulnerability of systems to penetration and abuse. As a tertiary responsibliity, it tries to reduce the amount of custom configuration using boot image control and other methods that radically reduce the number of different configurations involved.

Lower The Cost of Patching Desktops: $222 to $40 per Computer - April 13, 2007

This paper demonstrates the cost savings and the myriad of other benefits of an automated versus manual system. Learn how to reduce the cost of patching from $222 - $40 per computer - savings of over $180,000 annually for an organization with 1000 computers.
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