Panda Cloud Systems Management

The Panda Security company, producer of cloud solutions of security and the leading supplier of protection programs from the malicious software and viruses, announced in the summer of 2012 an exit of Panda Cloud Systems Management – a new solution for remote administration, control and service of IT resources. This cloud service gives unique opportunities for the companies locating tens and hundreds of computers, the distributed corporate network and mobile employees.

Panda Cloud Systems Management allows network administrators of the companies clients to perform examination of network condition and also far off to administer and control computers, reducing IT expenses and simplifying system maintenance processes.

Panda Cloud Systems Management offers following features:

• Control of any changes in network and on the PC and also asset management: Provides permanent visibility of corporate devices and performs inventory hardware and the software.
• Global monitoring of corporate servers and devices: gives an opportunity of accomplishment of pro-active diagnostics.
• Management ustroystvamidlya software implementation, installation of patches and automation of tasks of the solution of technical incidents.
• The built-in remote support transparent for end users.
• Reporting: creation of reports on all types of activities on all office and mobile devices.

With start of new service Panda Security confirms the commitment to providing the comprehensive solutions allowing to simplify a safety management process.

Thanks to Panda Cloud Systems Management the partner companies receive idle time in use the service for centralized operation by client networks allowing to lower time and cost of service of IT-systems of clients due to remote administration and process automation. The broad tool kit and powerful functions will allow the partner to expand a portfolio of the offered services and the customer base without need to attract additional personnel and to increase the level of skills.

Advantage of the version of June, 2013 of Panda Cloud Systems Management consists in the system of a tiketing allowing end users to request quickly remote support. Besides, administrators can manage loading of technical specialists and also place priorities. The new version of Panda Cloud Systems Management including contains options for ensuring full remote control over computers regardless of that, they are included or not, and therefore IT administrators can always manage their status. It gives the chance to the companies to receive significant economy since allows to manage devices without need to start them.

Besides, the latest version of Panda Cloud Systems Management offers more detailed control over processes, files and folders and also monitoring of dangerous and undesirable processes with automatic execution of the corresponding actions.

"Thanks to Panda Cloud Systems Management IT departments and service providers receive full control over everything set on their software computers now, thereby providing strict observance corporate the politician, – Manuel Santamaria, the Global Product manager in Panda Security explained. – For all IT services it is important to have information on the status of each object on the server".

In the nearest future Panda Cloud System Management integrates an option of creation of lists of all installations in the organization. It means that there will be an opportunity to make black lists of programs which should not be set white lists of programs which can be set and gold lists of programs which should be set.

Control of all types of devices

Consumption of IT technologies and use of personal devices in business environments led to the fact that now the organizations face new problems in the field of security and management which need to be solved without negative effects for the company or for users.

For example, today many companies have a huge number of mobile devices with different operating systems which, in most cases, almost do not give in to control and management. To cope with it, Panda Security will implement in a product support of IOS in the nearest future, and in the last quarter 2013 – support of Android and Blackberry. This function will allow IT administrators to perform audit of devices, to define their geographical location and also to manage far off mobile devices of the organization in case of loss, theft and other troubles.

In addition to it, administrators will be able to perform monitoring of any incidents in the organization from the mobile device that will allow to reduce time of response to emergence of any problems.

The user tool for partners

Moreover, Panda Cloud Systems Management became simpler and convenient tool for partners, owing to the integrated personalisation opportunities according to a brand (placement of a corporate logo and the text) now. Thanks to these improvements, Panda Cloud Systems Management predstalyat itself the ideal solution for full-fledged control of all devices provided to users.

Panda Cloud Systems Management services hundreds of thousands of computers in many countries of the world – Great Britain, Germany, Sweden, France, Spain, the USA, Austria, Norway, Finland, Brazil, etc.

2013: New Panda Cloud Systems Management

On December 16, 2013 the Panda Security company announced a release of the new version of a cloud management system for an IT environment of Panda Cloud Systems Management.

Description

The Panda Cloud Systems Management (PCSM) system was added with control functions by mobile devices (MDM) helping the companies to administer, control and support far off IT systems regardless of location. The solution allows to manage notebooks, smartphones and tablets, preventing leak of confidential information in case of loss or theft of the mobile device.

Innovations

In addition to a possibility of accomplishment of audit of network, monitoring of operation of computers and remote control over them, implementation and a software update, as a part of the updated PCSM there is a built-in module of mobile device management (MDM) intended for effective and the centralized control of all types of mobile devices of the enterprise.

With implementation of new features Panda Cloud Systems Management promotes expense reduction of the enterprise and considerably simplifies their IT processes.

"Thanks to the new module MDM (Mobile Device Management is mobile device management), IT departments and service providers can manage on a centralized basis from the uniform web console all notebooks, tablets and smartphones at office or beyond its limits, at any time and from any place now. In other words, thanks to these new features, IT administrators just will be capable easily and to create consolidated statements about all mobile devices in the network, including smartphones" – Manuel Santamaria, the director of product management in Panda Security noted.

Mobile device management (Mobile Device Management – MDM)

Tools of management mobile devices help administrators to manage on a centralized basis all notebooks Windows and Mac OS X (netbooks, ultrabooks, etc.), tablets and smartphones Android and iOS irrespective of their location (at office or beyond its limits) and time of day.

Besides, the module MDM helps with PCSM to the enterprises of a message monitoring of the status of mobile devices. Now IT departments know - what computers are in online/offline and where they are located. Also they have complete idea of all available hardware and set on these software devices, have information on a system and on all changes in it. As for security and control, i.e. an opportunity to implement politicians of password protection, far off to block devices and also far off to reset settings of devices to factory parameters, destroying all stored personal and confidential information in case of loss or theft. All above-mentioned, plus capability of creation of the consolidated statements showing the status of all devices in network, including smartphones, is performed rather simply and effectively.

Data protection on mobile devices

The module MDM in Panda Cloud Systems Management helps the companies to find and recover the absent mobile devices, receiving their coordinates and checking their location on the card. The solution helps to block far off mobile devices or to reset their parameters before factory defaults, preventing access for strangers to internal documentation, e-mail, telephone contacts and any other type of confidential information. All these new features are added to already existing opportunities from the previous versions, including options on carrying out audit of network, file management, monitoring of systems, providing remote support and creation of reports.