With security breaches on the rise, demands on IT to attain compliance with industry standards and regulations, and the need to deliver reliable, high-performing services to business users, gaining control over system configurations is a critical challenge that IT must meet head-on.

In this whitepaper you'll discover:

• Why IT finds it hard to gain control over the configuration of the IT infrastructure.
• What types of configuration assessment solutions are currently available
• What features and capabilities a truly useful configuration assessment solution must have.
• How Tripwire Enterprise combines configuration assessment with change auditing in a single solution to help IT achieve and maintaining configuration control.