Auditor II
Auditor II is our latest software and hardware auditing solution.
It is designed with over 6 years experience in developing software
auditing tools. Our primary objective for Auditor II was to reduce
(if not eliminate) the management overhead normally associated
with tools of this type.
Don't get caught with stolen Software!
In the UK, the Director of a company is liable for any stolen software used within his or her organization. This presents something of a problem if there are 500 personal computers (even more of a problem if the company is a software house full of computer literate people). Somehow the Directors must assure themselves that all the software within the company is legal and every reasonable step has been taken to prevent software theft.
The traditional method is to send memo's to all computer users, informing them that they will face disciplinary action if they copy software. It is common knowledge that this does not work.
Are employee's in your company moved around frequently? What if... Illegal copied software is also moved around - staff forget to delete it from old machines and it is transferred onto the new computers. The result is multiple, illegal copies of software.
Possible Solution
It is important that your company performs regular audits and keeps immaculate records relating to software use. Software auditing is an expensive, time consuming process. Auditing and recording software use on a single PC can take up to a day. If software auditing is to be effective, regular audits have to be carried out This can be both expensive for the company and a nuisance for it’s employees.
Consider the inconvenience -
- Time spent performing the audit.
- Computer down-time and staff disruption caused by the auditing process.
- Administration costs, keeping audit records up to date.
The Solution
Auditor II is a powerful computer based auditing package. It is designed to quickly scan the hard disks on personal computers and produce audit reports relating to software usage. In addition; Auditor II will monitor your hardware, reporting and logging changes so that assets can be tracked.
Auditor II has exclusive time saving facilities.
- Change reports. These detail changes between the current audit data and the last audit. This details information relating to new files and files which have been removed. This information is logged permanently in a special event log.
- Efficiency. It reduces the audit time for a single PC to just a few minutes. Combined, these have the ability to generate a multitude of reports, including company wide statistics and software usage information from up to 10,000 PC’s. With this in mind - Auditor II is the answer to your problem.
Detailed below is a brief list of facilities :-
- Automatic software recognition (No need to add software packages to the database)
- Automatic Software Product recognition.
- Automatic Client recognition (No need to add computers to the database)
- Multiple Audit Servers and Audit Loaders may be run on different servers providing departmental and corporate views.
- Network client works on any network that supports TCP/IP.
- Sophisticated hardware audit.
- Additional facilities for use as a help desk support system.
- Additional information held for links into asset management systems.
- Central control of audit schedules and parameters.
- Flexible file monitoring. User definable file types. i.e. DLL, OCX, GIF etc.