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"FullArmor is taking a local policy and making it manageable. If I use local policy without Active Directory I have no way to manage it. I have no way to make sure it is applied. And if I apply a local policy and the end user has administrative rights, they can bypass the policy. With FullArmor you can distribute the policy and prevent administrators from altering it."
- Michael Silver, Vice President & Research Director, Gartner
"Windows machines that are not connected to Active Directory and its Group Policy enforcement infrastructure can potentially create serious security liabilities for an enterprise. FullArmor's GPAnywhere software enables companies to greatly minimize security vulnerabilities and lower manual administration costs by locking down policy settings on mobile clients and kiosks outside the purview of Active Directory. No product can remove 100 percent of security threats, but GPAnywhere, used in conjunction with good computing security practices will allow businesses to reduce operational security risks to an acceptable level."
- Laura DiDio, Senior Analyst, Application Infrastructure and Software, Yankee Group
"The combination of Active Directory and Full Armor's new PolicyPortal Web-based management package melds two best-of-breed products and creates one of the industry's most comprehensive, granular management and security packages. PolicyPortal enhances the already powerful security capabilities of Active Directory and extends them by adding rules-based settings that enable administrators to centrally configure, manage and monitor security settings on local, remote and disconnected PCs and laptops via the Internet. The ability to administer such deep security policies and settings was previously unheard of. Yankee Group research indicates that standardized Active Directory group policy management, coupled with a product like Full Armor's PolicyPortal can reduce the number of managers needed to perform routine security and management chores by an estimated 30 percent. In addition, enterprises can cut the time it takes to establish and apply appropriate security configurations and settings from days to hours."
- Laura DiDio, a Research Fellow at Yankee Group, a Boston-based consultancy.
"IDC sees PolicyPortal as a complementary technology that extends the reach of Group Policy well beyond today's connected-environments, to sometimes-connected devices and remote systems accessible only through an Internet connection. This technology opens up interesting new opportunities for customers to leverage Active Directory to configure, provision or manage devices that today may be poorly managed, or not managed at all."
- Al Gillen, Research Director, System Software at IDC.
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