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Carole Warner ReeceBecause NetCraftsmen is now offering a free 30 dial trial of Netcordia's NetMRI software (at Netcordia NetMRI 4 Trial Download), we have had some recent discussions on the best way to run a trial.


OMB has mandated the Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC) security configuration.  NIST has a detailed set of configuration settings in an Excel spreadsheet that can be downloaded from http://fdcc.nist.gov. 


Cisco Network Compliance Manager (NCM) is a powerful tool that can ease network and security management by automating many of the more tedious aspects. This is all on top of the policies that can be used to ensure compliance with various compliance standards such as SOX, PCI, COBIT, ITIL, COSO, GLBA, and HIPAA. Here's a list of the top features that NCM can provide for an enterprise:


Maybe you missed the articles I made in March to my blog at Netcordia:

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